GeForce 3D Vision: Gaming Goes Stereo

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[citation][nom]cangelini[/nom]Nowhere is it said that you can't use an old CRT--but why would you? If you're going to spend money on a high-end graphics card and active glasses technology, a decent LCD shouldn't be too much of a stretch.[/citation]
It wouldn't be an immersive 3D experience on that tiny 19" CRT.

 

[we_are_theBorg]

Could someone please explain to me *why* my badass Sony E500 21" CRT that supports 1600x1200 @ 120Hz isn't going to be supported by this technology? Viva CRTs!

 

[iball]

what about us cyclops (just call me clopi) with only one iball. on another note, movie company's have been trying this since the 1950's. seems to me this is just going to be another failed gimmick, why do company's keep blowing good r&d money on this. when the money would be better spent on an actual 3d display

 

[SlyNine]

[nom]gmt325gh[/nom]nice... just one small problem .... what about people who wear glasses ???!!!

Free antialiasing ??

 

[SlyNine]

"gmt325gh nice...
just one small problem .... what about people who wear glasses ???!!!"

Free antialiasing 😉

 

[Cody_7]

I stopped reading the article as soon as the words "Compatible display", and "120hz" were mentioned.

This is why 3D gaming will never be popular. You need to shell out money on 120hz LCD displays which there's no need for, typically, if you aren't 3D gaming. Plus, after all of that you're lucky if it even looks good enough to warrant the glasses much less the LCD.

I tried the eDimensional stereo glasses - which worked fine on 60hz panels by the way but it was really a waste of money. It never really made any games look 3d beyond having your 1st person gun pop out a little and had bad driver problems. For example, in Half-Life 2 your gun would often appear behind roads and buildings ruining the gameplay experience.

I guess 3D gaming will never be a reality.

 

[Cody_7]

OH, and no pictures of the setup? What kind of article is this? Too lazy to take any real pictures?

 

[matt2k]

Interesting. I remember back in 05/06 i saw a presentation by intel, where the had 2 MASSIVE projectors with different filters that projected slightly offset images onto a screen. Then with passive glasses it would look 3D. Old technology, but playing Rayman was hallucinogenic.
Will be interesting to see whether this becomes more mainstream, though i highly doubt it. Just imagine it in connection with a matrox setup though...

 

[rabbidrabbit]

on CRT compatability/support one thing not being discussed is the "persistance" of the phosphors of the old screens. For the image to be veiwable the phosphors "glow time" needed to be just enough for the ray in the cathode ray tube to get back to it from the last frame tracing (primary reason for "ghosting" of old). High scan rate crt's always scanned at the higher rate cause turning it down darkened the display (ergo individual frame rescan for movies etc) LCD's each frame can be on/off for full frame display time, I am guessing that the response times given by the manufacturers is actually the on/off time for each cell to make transition, so twice that for each change? I don't know how frame is loaded? string? or Batch? but you can see the problem , timing is every thing, and not nearly so simple as set it and ferget it.

 

[mountie2464]

they have the $400 monitors then they talk about the cheaper $200 monitors are the $200 monitors compatible with the tech?

 

[Guest]

When it will be posibele to play on lcdtvs and the price of the glases are cheaper like 50$ then i give it a try

 

[baracubra]

Now my question is, wheather Sony's new Z series is capable of displaying the required # Hz for 3D. Naturally the screens are full HD, and they come with Sony's new Motion Flow 200Hz engine. What this engine does is take the signal coming in at your normal Hz and insert between each frame, 3 extra frames it calculated from any movement! This makes watching anything involving movement or alot of panning such as sports on the screen a lot more fluent.

So this LCD is capable of displaying 200 Hz, but is it capable of recieving that amount? or would the engine just do its job inserting the extra frames and still look good in an fps??

Im really considering getting the 52" of this LCD and getting the 3D set to go with it, so any ideas are welcome...

Thx

 

[Guest]

The idea has merit but there are so many flaws in the idea that it falls flat on its face. 1) What if you have glasses? 2) 3D specs, Headphones and a mic... they should just make it a full face helmet and make it easier for me to put everything on so I can play for 30 minutes before I get pulled away for real work. 3) $600.00 upgrade!!!!! FOR A FRIGGEN GAME?!?!!? and this just "upgrades" your current system (assuming you need a new LCD). I get annoyed spending $500.00 for a video card to do everything I need... now I need to plop an additional $200.00 so I can look at everything through tinted glasses? Add everything up and you have a $1000.00 gaming system and that is JUST the video subsystem. You still need the rest of the hardware to plug this crap into!
Off my rant. I tried them out at Best Buy and though they are neat they are worth maybe a quarter of what they are asking, and yes.. enjoy the ghosting.