Not true.
Stereo 3D is Stereo 3D, be it with blue / green glasses, stereo shutter glasses or a HMD like the rift.
What is different, is how a 3D game implements stereo 3D. Some games use a fake 3D mode which calculates the 3D effect from z-Buffer I believe (Crysis 2 / 3). True Stereo 3D rending,like what most native Rift games use will give you natural 3D. It's really down to the developers and or game engine. Elite uses proper 3D as opposed to fake 3D.
I'm not sure how compatible Nvidia's 3D vision driver is with E: D but just because we have good stereo 3D on the Rift doesn't mean you will have it using say Tridef or NVidia 3D drivers. Shadows in 3D Vision are often problematic for example.
I guess any anomalies you see wearing those red / green glasses are by products of not a yet completed 3D Vision or native anaglyph implementation. NVidia and / or Frontier will fix this should they choose to officially support that hardware. Either that or NVidia's lazy ass with implement a lame fake 3D effect at driver level rather than fix the issues properly themselves.
In regard to things looking like they do not have as much depth: If you can use 3D Vision it is highly configurable, you just need to enable the advanced options under the 'Hotkeys' section of the 3D Vision section in the NVidia control panel and assign some keys to Convergence increase / Decrease. Increasing the depth and convergence using the hotkeys will resolve this for you. Be aware that at high levels you will start to see ghosting (crosstalk, resulting in a faint image of what the right eye sees in the left eye and reverse).
As the Rift uses "Side by Side" rendering and completely separates each eye crosstalk or ghosting is not an issue.
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