3D requirements

[trailbreaker]

Hey!

I have a nVidia GTX560 Ti which supports 3D.

And, i have ordered a ASUS 3D monitor too.

When the monitor has arrived, would i be able watch movies or play games in 3D using jst a polarized 3d glass pair, if i had only these 2 (3D monitor and the VGA)?

Or.....should i buy a nVidia or some other 3D KIT for that purpose?

Plez.... some who knows, reply. Ah???

 

[benski]

You will need the Nvidia 3d vision kit unless the display you ordered comes with its own glasses. Asus doesn't make any polarized 3d displays AFAIK, they are all 120hz displays that use LCD shutter glasses.

 

[trailbreaker]

do you know any??

 

[benski]

Know any what?

 

[17seconds]

http://www.geforce.com/Hardware/Technologies/3d-vision

 

[bystander]

As far as I'm aware, the polarized glasses only work when used with two projectors and a silver screen. These are very expensive setups and is the reason why home systems currently use shutter glasses instead.

You can read about the tech here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy#Linearly_polarized_glasses

Linearly polarized glasses
Main article: Polarized 3D glasses

To present a stereoscopic motion picture, two images are projected superimposed onto the same screen through orthogonal polarizing filters. It is best to use a silver screen so that polarization is preserved. The projectors can receive their outputs from a computer with a dual-head graphics card. The viewer wears low-cost eyeglasses which also contain a pair of orthogonal polarizing filters. As each filter only passes light which is similarly polarized and blocks the orthogonally polarized light, each eye only sees one of the images, and the effect is achieved. Linearly polarized glasses require the viewer to keep his head level, as tilting of the viewing filters will cause the images of the left and right channels to bleed over to the opposite channel—along with misaligning the vision fields with those of the viewer's eyes. Therefore, viewers learn very quickly not to tilt their heads. As the motion picture provides the same stereoscopic image to all, and no head tracking is involved, several people can view the movie at the same time from a limited breadth of angles.

Circularly polarized glasses
Main article: Polarized 3D glasses

To present a stereoscopic motion picture, two images are projected superimposed onto the same screen through circular polarizing filters of opposite handedness. The viewer wears low-cost eyeglasses which contain a pair of analyzing filters (circular polarizers mounted in reverse) of opposite handedness. Light that is left-circularly polarized is extinguished by the right-handed analyzer, while right-circularly polarized light is extinguished by the left-handed analyzer. The result is similar to that of steroscopic viewing using linearly polarized glasses, except the viewer can tilt his or her head and still maintain left/right separation (though the tilt will still affect the brain's ability to fuse the two images and correctly perceive depth).

The RealD Cinema system uses an electronically driven circular polarizer, mounted in front of the projector and alternating between left- and right- handedness, in sync with the left or right image being displayed by the (digital) movie projector. The audience wears passive circularly polarized glasses.

 

[benski]

IZ3D has some polarized displays, but I don't think they are 3d vision compatable, you have to use the IZ3D software.

 

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