Anyone going to go for the 3D thing?

[Sam DeathWalker]

Here is the requirements, and the glasses are $199:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/GeForce...uirements.html

Also you need 100Hz plus monitor.

I can see what it does easy, they take a screen and send left eye info to yur left eye while blanking the right eye then they display right eye and blank the left at 120HZ (would be best instead of 100HA). So thats like 60HZ each eye. In theory there should be np with it.

Anyway if someone trys it Id like to hear if its good or not. Also if you have the glasses on and you look at a normal monitor (60HZ) that dosnt have the 3d drivers what happens lol ...

[-silencer-]

We're heavily testing this technology in R&D at work - it's impressive on our military simulators. That's about all I can say.

That said, I'm seriously considering a 3D monitor & the nVidia glasses when they're out in April. I like my current setup for multiboxing, but I can definitely see how the solo game would be vastly more immersive in 3D.

[Lyonheart]

We're heavily testing this technology in R&D at work - it's impressive on our military simulators. That's about all I can say.

That said, I'm seriously considering a 3D monitor & the nVidia glasses when they're out in April. I like my current setup for multiboxing, but I can definitely see how the solo game would be vastly more immersive in 3D.

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[Jafula]

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/gra...vision-review/

I'd be all for playing with this one of these, if I had a 120Hz monitor. Maybe in a years time. I'd love to play Left 4 Dead with this 3D system. Drool.

[Multibocks]

from some of the WoW testers I have read that it is very straining on the eyes. That said I still want to try it out, too bad I'm running 2x 4870x2's =(

[Basilikos]

My video card(s) is(are) just barely too low to support this. Eventually, I'll have to upgrade to keep up with things, and they'll be the first things I upgrade (everything else is quite fine). I wasn't aware of the 100Hz monitor issue, I certainly don't have one and I don't think I care to spend the money on that any time soon.

[-silencer-]

from some of the WoW testers I have read that it is very straining on the eyes. That said I still want to try it out, too bad I'm running 2x 4870x2's =(

I don't know about WoW, but some of us at work have used 3D shutter glasses for up to 12 hours at a time (with short breaks every now and then).. some people are strained by it and some aren't.. just like sitting at a computer all day.

[algol]

The strain thing would depend on the person - the same way some people get headaches from florescent lighting or are more sensitive to low CRT refresh rates. It is also likely mitigated by using a higher primary refresh rate, giving higher secondary refresh rates for each eye.

[Molt]

One thing worth remembering is that this won't work well for multiboxing, each display'll have it's own perspective and the brain won't like having six diifferent perspectives messing up things, at best it'll look like each of the characters is in their own artificially foreshortened box.. the normal 3d problem of the screen having a different a different perspective to the real-world is bad enough but give it five display regions and watch the brain trickle slowly out of your nose.

With regard to what happens when looking at a normal flatscreen 60Hz display in 120Hz goggles- the answer is not much, if anything it dims it a little. What's actually happening is you're just seeing the one frame either first through one eye then through the other (if the goggles sync with the display properly- not guaranteed), or through one eye, then the other, then back to the first for a moment before the frame switched. An old CRT viewed through this could be curious though, it may well make the point where the raster scan operation was very obvious- may have to have a play with that.

Personally I'm going to leave this technology alone at playtime for now. Whilst the problem of getting viable 3d displays working with games is a lot easier than it is with film it is still the case that most of the programmers won't really understand the requirements of making psychologically-acceptable 3d where the separation between the two virtual cameras is right based on the content to avoid either nullifying the 3d effect or making massive things look tiny, things don't appear too close to the camera and break the effect, and a number of other things.

This is ignoring also the fact that a lot of modern games use billboard techniques as imposters and they won't work- you're not looking at a lot of individually rendered blades of grass, you're looking at a much lower number of flat billboards with multiple blades of grass rendered on them; you're not looking at true smoke or fire, you're looking at a lot of flat billboards with a smoothly-faded blurred shapes on them. These kind of tricks work well in the forced-perspective of a single view but would rapidly start to break down in a stereoscopic environment as the edges either get quite obvious or the entire thing looks flat. Getting rid of these and replacing them with actual geometry/volumetrics is going to cost a lot of GPU power.

[Xar]

I can't wait to afford a big 120hz panel, probably in 6-months or so. I'm playing now with my main screen at 24" so I don't want to downgrade to a 22" that they bundle with the package.

I played around with the older lcd glasses a number of years ago that would plug into the video card and used my crt at a lower rez to have a higher refresh rate. Still 3d images were amazing to look at.

I've been solo raiding more and more and just using my team to do dailies and fund my main solo toons but still multibox in lwg and it's always a blast. Really looking forward to this while solo raiding.