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Nvidia jumps on 3D bandwagon with Microsoft
IT'S GOGGLES AHOY with Nvidia's 3D technical wizadry streaming three dimensions over the interweb with the help of meandering software house Microsoft.
For those who were doomed to watch this Computex spectacle, they were subjected to the music video "We are the world," or as Microsoft might wish it, "we rule the world". The Vole's Silverlight video player and something called IIS streaming technology allowed the audience to see that Nvidia's "3D Vision" worked, as it was supposed to do.
"Just click on a 3D video and it plays in 3D, using the latest 3D Vision Silverlight-based video player and Nvidia 3D Vision," said Phil Eisler, the Green Goblin's 3D Vision technology general manager, "Internet users can now enjoy 3D video content streamed in high-definition quality and viewed at full resolution."
Or, as Nvidia's press release says, "[this] provides a secure path to distribute and monetize 3D video over the web... Movies, trailers, sports and any form of 3D video."
To watch things like James Cameron's Avatar fanboys will need an Nvidia 3D Vision-based desktop or notebook PC equipped with the latest 3D Vision drivers - and this is supposed to be easy? - and the Silverlight browser plug-in. But for what browser we ask? µ
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A 20 Mb internet connection (actual, not "up to") and a high enough cap that you will not get cut off after 2-3 movies. Unless it's filtered and over-compressed crap like what cable TV call HD... then you might get 4-5 movies before you get cut off.
I will NEVER get a 3d setup that requires you to wear stupid "3d" glasses. Especially not now when there is a new 3d tech on the horizon that does not require the idiot goggles.
I can't understand why an updated version of a 150 year old technology is suddenly being pushed as it is. Stereoscopic imagine (that's what current 3d still boils down to, AFAIK) is old hat. We need to be moving towards holographic displays and leave this ancient tech in the past. I mean really, if I was sitting around, gaming or watching movies with 3d glasses on, I'd feel like I just stuck my head into a Virtual Boy and I would realize what a huge fail current 3d tech is.
... for a split second I thought it was April fool's day joke.
Honest.
THE BEST REASON TO HAVE THIS IS TO BRAG TO THE NEIGHBORS, AND BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE A HUGE PACK OF MORONS THIS SHOULD SELL LIKE GANGBUSTERS.
WHAT WE DESPERATELY NEED NOW IS A SERVICE DEDICATED TO 3D ENHANCING OLD MOVIES, SAME LIKE A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN THEY COLORIZED ALL THE OLD MOVIES.
PREDICTABLY THE 3D TECHNOLOGY WILL ULTIMATELY FLOUNDER SAME LIKE THE 3D POSTER FAD OF THE 1990S. WON'T STOP SHARP OPERATORS FROM MAKING A QUICK BUCK TODAY THO.
@Pascal What about some polarised contact lenses?
@Bipolarized Surely 50hz is fine. Normal tv is alright at 25hz. Double it, 50hz. Done.
I take it you would need a monitor with a refresh rate of over 120Hz for this to work ...
And will that Silverlight plug-in work on the iPad/iPhone ... ?
Come on you LCD makers (other than Sony) ... where's the polarized screens already?
Um, one word : NO.
I can put up with those tinted shades for a one-time go, for fun.
I can eventually put up with such a constraint for a specific experience, if I feel interested enough.
But everyday, all the time, just to watch TV ?
Over my dead body.
And, as a side note, I see that they have already secured the DRM part of the business. I wait with baited breath the first tales of woe and failure that are inevitably going to crop up.