http://3dvision-blog.com/video-inte...-cauldron/

HEY NERDS! so i've got a big nice nasty juicy throbbing present for all of you who have recently been on an upgrading spree for BC2.

Remember that ATI 5870 that i got and was touting as the way to go with graphics? well, i totally spaced on the original spec sheet back in september which at the very bottom said:

"support for stereoscopic 3D"

most people dismissed this as meaning that yeah yeah yeah, the cards could handle you throwing on those outdated "avatar" type 3d glasses, and it would look like shit, but still work.

no no no my friends, stereoscopic 3D is the new hotness, as i'm sure you've read an article or two about nVidia's proprietary stereoscopic 3D solution.

So i thought that ATI users were left out in the dust, but who cares, you need to buy one of those 120hz samsung monitors which are absurdidly expensive, right? also 3D is for fags, right? 

but it turns out that ATI has something much better up their sleeve. and it works on RF instead of nvid's infared, so there's no stutter (which people have reported, even after spending up to $1000 on the nessicary hardware.)

So these new glasses are USB powered, and aslong as you have a 5000 series ATI card (which i think 4 or 5 of us now have) then all you need is a 120hz monitor. There's a viewsonic out there for $250, but the samsung has dropped from $550 to about $300 from most american (and canadian) retailers. that is if you can find em in stock.

newer better monitors will roll out, and the glasses won't be out until Q3 2010, but the good news is that with a 5000 series ati card, you're already compliant. And if you want you can get a samsung today, and be gaming at 120hz (worth it anyways in my opinion) and then grab the glasses when they drop in the latter half of the year.

if you've never heard of any of this before, checkout nvidia's page about it. the short of it is that the industry is moving towards a 3D blu-ray standard, avatar will help push this, so this is the time to push for manufacturors and software makers. but there are sooooo few movies out there that support 3D, the real market is gamers, as there are many games which can easily support full 3d functionality already, and into the future, it will be standard.

oh and i'm sure that there will be 3d porn too.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vis..._Main.html

actually, looks like there's abunch fo 120hz 3d monitors about to drop, so i'll keep my eyes peeled.

i went to a computer shop in town today, and they had one of these monitors set up with the nvidia 3D, i got to play a bit of fallout 3 cause it was the only game they had, basically the glasses and drivers are fail, cool concept, but early adopters of any new tech usually get screwed. made my head hurt within 5 minutes, you have to be cross-eyed to see your crosshairs properly, it's half the brightness so really dark (cause each eye is only getting half the light it usually does). and the glasses start flipping out if you have any other bright lights in the room, i was in a well lit computer store, and they started whiteflashing like someone was taking a flash photo at my face at point blank range, i was buggin out, one of the guys at the store said that that was the glasses re-calibrating for differences in the ambient lighting. don't get me wrong, the 3D is fucking cool as shit, but right now it's not playable. 

the monitor however, ooooohh baby, you should have seen me, at the first time i just was moving my mouse cursor around the screen in windows, marveling at the smoothness, then this time i decided to grab a window, and move that around, HOLY SHIT! i was just doing figure 8's with an explorer window for like 60 seconds, the techs that work there, 2 of them came up behind me and were like: "nice eh?" i just drooled. then one of them had the bright idea to switch my explorer window to a VLC window playing a promo video, and start moving that around the screen, it was magic. i couldn't believe it, it was like the matrix, but more awsome. no lag at all, no tearing, no blurriness, just a perfect window playing a video every milisecond of the way, i don't know how to describe it, it looked... analogue.

mine should arrive a day before this game drops, and well, i'll give a more substancial review then, as it might be worth it. even if you're not pushing over 60 FPS you'll still see a significant difference, less RDS artifacting, less ghosting, less blurriness, and no tearing.