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Nvidia releases 3D glasses
THE LATEST fashion accessory is going to be a pair of 3D glasses, according to Nvidia.
The Green Goblin has released what it calls 3D Vision Pro. Of course this is not just a pair of 3D glasses. According to Nvidia it is a "3D stereoscopic solution which will empower engineers, designers, architects and computational chemists".
The system incorporates active shutter glasses and a radio frequency communication system so that users can see 3D on LCD panels at their Quadro powered desktop and mobile workstations.
Small groups can view 3D on single or multiple projectors and larger groups can experience 3D on power walls or in theaters.
Nvidia said that the system can manage connections of up to 150 feet with no crosstalk, blind spots or other transmission problems between multiple systems.
The glasses have rechargeable batteries good for 20 hours of continuous operation. Nvidia's 3D Vision Pro system will be in the shops from October but there is no word on price yet. µ
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...getting old sucks! Unfortunately, there is existing technology that can give old farts the WOW factor back...and it may not even require glasses...it's called Alzheimer's!
Ohhhhh that was bad! Maybe the Men In Black memory eraser is a a better idea if you could choose which crappy old memories to delete.
Thats why it sucks to get old. Now if they can give me a pair of glasses that can make me forget about all the older technology that is back to being new then I can have the WOW factor back.
That old tech is new again ? Who does Nvidia think they're kidding ?
All they're doing is revving up the PR engine again.
I doubt any real chemist, engineer or architect is going to waste time and risk headaches with this gadgetry gimmick.
I mean heck, it's not like architects have been waiting on 3D shutter glasses to use computers, now is it ?
What do they really bring as far as useability enhancements are concerned ?
I'll believe these gimmicks are useful when a science lab rat makes a video showing the difference between using them and not using them.
Anything else is just an excuse for rich gamer kids to wow their friends before getting fragged again on their Xbox Live.
Way back in 1985-86 I bought a brand new Atari 1040ST, which was a high-tech fast computer in those days, rivaled only by the Commodore Amiga. Neither Apple's Macintosh, which still had a tiny B&W display, nor IBM's 8086 "PC" was nearly as advanced as the 1040ST and Amiga.
Back to the story. Not too long after my ST purchase an article appeared in STart magazine previewing a new line of stereoscopic games that did not use the el cheapo red/blue kiddie glasses. Instead, the new line of games used LCD 3D shutter-glasses (as they were called) for true stereoscopic viewing. This is the same technology that Nvidia and others are touting today. Gee, that was only 23 years ago!
I bought my active shutter glasses from Nvidia over a year ago for $199 then a similar amount again to import them over here to Australia. They work brilliantly with my old 22" CRT (which I kept for such purposes). I first bought ediminsional active shutter glasses in 2001 to work with Nvidias geforce 3 (powered by Nvidia's stereoscopic drivers). Just saying this stuff is not new Nvidia has been supporting stereocopic vision for a decade now.
Rebrand, rerelease, repeat. Active glasses might be useful for scientific or engineering work, but until they are as cheap as chips, home users will stay away.
Why won't these various consumer electronics companies invest a bit of cash into coming up with a good system for cheap passive glasses for home use like RealD or Dolby do in the theaters? Until that happens, 3D is just going to be another unused feature on most consumer systems.
I guess if Nvidia can rebrand their gpu's then whats wrong with doing it with their glasses.I still have the first ones that came out in 1999 with the gforce 256,put out by Asus. I kind of liked it but I don't think they did much of a follow up, because the cards that followed, I don't think had the plugin on the video cards. I switched to the red cards after that.
How many times are shutter glasses going to be new? Didn't nVidia just decide that 3D and shutter glasses were new 2 years ago or so? The technology has been in consumer hands for, what, 15 years on home PCs and even longer on consoles (I never used them, but didn't the Master System use sutters?)? Time to stop pretending that this is new tech.