How Nvidia Wants To Bring 3D Glasses Back 341
notthatwillsmith writes "For the last ten years, we've heard the promise of 3D shutter glasses, which when combined with the proper video card drivers and a good display, can trick your brain into thinking that your 2D monitor is creating 3D images. Unfortunately the glasses never really took off, partly because there were rendering problems with many popular 3D games but mostly because monitors didn't support high enough refresh rates to display games without giving people crushing headaches. Nvidia thinks they've solved both problems--the software works much better, and there are a surprising number of supported 120Hz-capable TVs and monitors that ameliorate the headache factor. Maximum PC has a hands-on with Nvidia's new tech, plus details about Nvidia's planned hardware solution."
"Mostly" monitors? (Score:5, Funny)
OK, sure, refresh rates are an issue, but you don't think it was mostly that people don't want to wear special glasses for gaming? We haven't yet aged so much as a demographic that we can say "let me put on my gaming glasses" with a straight face.
Re:Can I have my 5 minutes back? (Score:4, Funny)
But you'll appreciate how that BSOD really pops out of the screen in 3D. Or the progress bar while waiting for file copies.
Re:Can I have my 5 minutes back? (Score:3, Funny)
Don't forget narrowly avoiding the swinging anamorphic appendages of a personified paperclip.
Re:"Mostly" monitors? (Score:2, Funny)
I love the glasses. They're so bad!
Bucking the peripherals trend? (Score:4, Funny)
A long time ago, there was a big market for perifrials in games: joysticks, etc. I think at that point a substantial portion of the gaming market were playing flight sims. Latching on to that were more arcade-style games that benefited from joysticks: Wing Commander, X-Wing, etc.
Since then, there's be a decrease in the number of peripherals. If the game doesn't play well with mouse and keyboard, it usually isn't played. Even on consoles, it's rough to convince people to play games with something other than the standard controller.
Now nvidia wants us to but special nerd glasses and special nerd monitors for a 3D effect (windows Vista only). I'm not sure it'll fly.
Also, reading that interview, Andrew FEAR sounds like a toolburger. Yeah, 3D could be fOMG amazing one eleventy exclamation point, but I'd rather have a better game.
Re:Ignore the monitor! (Score:1, Funny)
portable and PRIVATE browsing?
Sorry dude, people can still see your hard-on.
Re:Can I have my 5 minutes back? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure I have nerve to play Angband with this anyway -- those capital Z's will be terrifying in 3D!
Visuals, Smisuals (Score:4, Funny)
If I can't poke it in the eye or shove a sword through its guts, I don't consider it true 3D. Give me a holodeck with the safety features disabled, a BFG, and a flask of whiskey -- then we'll talk about licensing your technology.
Clarification (Score:3, Funny)
I believe you meant, "polishing a turd".
The correct lipstick references are "lipstick on a pig" and/or "lipstick on a pitbull".
Re:"Mostly" monitors? (Score:4, Funny)
I'd wear special glasses if it made stuff 3D. No question.
You could have just posted "GIMMIE 3D PORN!" like you thought.
Chose your own oblig. (Score:3, Funny)
Please select one of the following:
Re:My religious stance? (Score:5, Funny)
Beyond silly? That's not beyond silly. A football helmet full of cottage cheese, now that's beyond silly.
Re:My religious stance? (Score:2, Funny)
and it's just gross if you put ketchup on it. mustard's better, it really brings out that extra "flavour" from being served in a football helmet ;)
Re:Clarification (Score:5, Funny)
While you can't polish a turd, you can roll it in glitter!
Re:Bigger glasses (Score:3, Funny)
Why don't they just make the glasses so big that you put them over the monitor isntead? That way people don't need to wear them to get the 3D effect?
If you put the glasses on the monitor, both eyes would see the same thing at the same time.
Yes, but the monitor could watch *you* in 3D! 'Course, this only works in Soviet Russia...
Re:"Mostly" monitors? (Score:1, Funny)
Here at Slashdot we tow the party line.
Re:"Mostly" monitors? (Score:2, Funny)