NVIDIA Offers 3D Glasses For the Masses

Vigile writes "A new stereoscopic 3D gaming technology has hit the street today from NVIDIA, though demoed earlier in the year, that promises to bring high quality 3D gaming to the PC. The GeForce 3D Vision technology utilizes active shutter glasses and a 120 Hz display (either 120 Hz LCD or 3D-Ready DLP TVs) to bring an immersive 3D effect to PC games. Using the depth buffer information stored in DirectX, the NVIDIA software is able to construct a stereo 3D image out of existing game content while the 120 Hz requirement gives each eye 60 frames of motion per second negating the physical detriments that were known to occur with previous 3D offerings. The review at PC Perspective details how the technology works, the performance hit your games take while using it and the advantages and disadvantages to the user's gaming experience with 3D Vision."

Comments

Re:Uh oh

[LilGuy]

Just wait until someone figures out how to make them wireless. 3D mobile porn while driving...

Accessories?

[Mikkeles]

Does it come with Aspirin?

Re:Accessories?

[Conspiracy_Of_Doves]

I just had a horrible thought.

What if someone used this technology for a mod for Mirror's Edge.

Gaming?

[Thanshin]

Who thought of selling a 3d display system for gaming?

Let's see. How many gamers watch porn regularly?
Now, how many non-gamers watch porn regularly?
And finally, how many games get so greater for being in 3d as porn?

How hard can it be to sell a product with "Full 3D titties. $X. Pay here."

How hard? I ask you.

Re:Gaming?

[Toe, The]

It is often the case that "gaming" is code for "porn." That's just how they have to market it to the mainstream.

Same as how "home video" was code for "home porn."

Same as how "internet access" was code for "porn access."

Same as how "broadband" is code for "more porn."

Same as how "high-def" is code for "clearer porn."

You get the picture.
(Which is code for "you get porn.")

Re:Gaming?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah...stripper/sex show = 3D porn. Prostitute = interactive porn. Girlfriend = well, normal sex.

Re:If your specs aren't good enough

[Thanshin]

So, I definitely want one, but I'm not going to pretend that this would be remotely useful until I upgrade to a brand new machine.

Well, you could buy it now and, while you wait for a more powerful rig, use it on older games.

Like tetris.

After reading the title...

[CaptainPatent]

... I expected the Slashdot story to be something like:

3 young lasses from Manassas made glasses for the masses rendering 3d in two passes. Currently the glasses are omitting noxious gasses and they're receiving an action lawsuit in classes so they really need to cover their asses.

more as time passes.

Re:New?

[arugulatarsus]

Games did not provide support for the glasses. I remember using my Asus TNT2 Ultra http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=964 on final reality and tomb raider 2. I thought this would not work on an LCD monitor though since most of them work only at 60hz. Kudos to greenzilla for playing on the fact that these monitors have a ridiculously high resolution and halving it to maintain the performance while losing sharpness. I don't think this will work for twitch gamers. but for casual gamers, if they can throw in head tracking, this can be a really fun way to play tetris.

Clipping

[loocas]

So will graphic clipping issues poke you in the eye?

Re:Nerdcore

[Mursk]

"a33s3s" aeeses? asssss?

this is going to get ugly

[blackoutdustin]

because i am going to hook a gyroscope up to these glasses and interface them with my mouse. and then i am going to put myself in a hampster ball setup, also connected to my mouse/movement interface. ...and then i'm going to buy a Fleshlight...

Re:Uh oh

[FireFury03]

Yes, but you do need a girlfriend, and that's something a lot of us are lacking.

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