prophetik music Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 the first competitively priced 3d gaming monitor has been put up for purchasing by iZ3D. the article's available here. it doesn't support a 64-bit OS (being resolved in a driver update), older multi-gpu configurations (sli, crossfire, etc...supposedly fixed on the ati 4xxx and gtx 200 dies, but i'm not sure about that), dual monitor, or OpenGL (who cares about opensource on a gaming system, anyways). and you have to wear silly glasses (they include two pairs and a clipon set). however, it's shipping from newegg for 349$, which is about how much you pay in a store for a 22" widescreen anyways. most people say that in more modern games like CoD4 and 5, hellgate, and other action/adventure and fps games with lots of visual-depth reference points, this is incredible. games like civ 3 don't really look that special. plz discuss! i'm actually possibly thinking about getting this now when i upgrade to a gaming monster sometime soon in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shadow Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Hate to be a dick but I've known about this monitor from a competing company for a while, and it looks neater. Although it costs about twice as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Native Jovian Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Aw, man, it's just one of those "3-D" things like they have in theme parks? I thought you were talking about some sort of actually-displays-in-three-dimensions display. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BardicKnowledge Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Lack of x64 support is a deal-breaker for me. As mentioned in one of the reviews, the best games require more memory than a 32-bit OS can handle (well, to max out settings anyway). Also, wouldn't games need to be specifically designed for this technology in order to make it work well, and not be just a cheesy gimmick? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 Lack of x64 support is a deal-breaker for me. As mentioned in one of the reviews, the best games require more memory than a 32-bit OS can handle (well, to max out settings anyway).Also, wouldn't games need to be specifically designed for this technology in order to make it work well, and not be just a cheesy gimmick? games HAVE been made for 3d for the last five or six years. we've just never had the tech to display in it. also note that the 64-bit tech is coming within the next two months in a driver update. redshadow, note that i said it was affordable. 700$ for a monitor isn't affordable...350 is. jovian, it's not just stereoscopic, like you're thinking of. it's actually two LCD monitors built into one unit, and one monitor displays standard 2d data while the other one displays the depth of field stuff. it's actually pretty incredible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Well depends on what you mean by "work well." Any 3-D game can be viewed in stereo, as shifting the camera angle for every frame is a pretty trivial operation. Nvidia's been doing this for a while with special shutter glasses, but it never caught on, especially since nowadays LCDs don't have a high enough refresh rate to support more than 30fps. This just might be enough for me to go Crossfire though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calpis Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 "Simply plug the monitor into the VGA or DVI port on your graphics card and put on the passive polarized 3D glasses and your game will be in your face." Well it seems cool, but if I read it right you have to wear some sort of 3d glasses? It's interesting but probably won't catch on if need to wear glasses. I probably won't be buying this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 yeah, they're still glasses-based. there's no way to represent depth unless there is a depth to represent - which is why projectors can pull it off, but not flat-screens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 So I just checked out these iZ3D drivers and it turns out they have a free anaglyph option. This means that for the price of a pair of red/cyan glasses, you can play any Direct3D game in stereoscopic 3D. I've tried it with a couple games (Portal and DMC4) and it's pretty awesome, although I still need to tweak the settings some more to get the colors un-wonkified. So in other words, the topic title should be changed to "3d gaming is officially here for under $20." Heck it could even be free if you've got a pair lying around from your Spy Kids DVD or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 which is why projectors can pull it off, but not flat-screens. Which projectors? My dream setup involves using them rather than monitors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 any projectors. it's the distance that allows it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Not sure I understand... projectors show a moving image on a flat surface, like a monitor. What's different? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted March 31, 2009 Author Share Posted March 31, 2009 stereoscopic pictures require a certain bit of distance from the image to work properly, since they have to be 'tweaked' for the viewing distance. projectors are better than monitors since their display is farther away from the viewer, allowing a better picture. until this came around, they were (comparitively) cheaper, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pezman Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Well, I want a projector primarily to have a "movie theater" whenever I want to watch a movie. It will make things like gaming awesome too, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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