PlayStation 3 is capable of 3D playback
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Yeh i have seen this... Nvidia just released in their new GFX card drivers its pretty cool.... havnt tried it out yet but gotta mahself some 3D glasses
As far as I know Nvidia has been offering 3D Gaming for a while now and you need special glasses and the IR Transmitter PLUS a LCD monitor capable of 120hz refresh. So I don't think you're going to get 3D gaming from any driver with JUST a pair of glasses.
This brings me to another interesting question. My Samsung Plasma monitor is 3D-Ready as stated by Samsung and the product's spec-sheet. However, it only sports a 100Hz refresh rate (still amazing for a plasma btw). But as far as I know you need 120Hz for 3D viewing (60Hz x2), so how the heck can my plasma be 3D-Ready with a 100Hz refresh rate? Doesn't make sense to me.
Just did a bit of reading. It seems that CRT, Projectors and Plasmas with 100Hz can pull off 3D Images, BUT, when it comes to LCD's the monitor HAS to be able to produce 120hz, which is not a problem for most high-range LCD TV's able to push 200 Hz (like some Sony Bravias). Thanks goodness my plasma is at least proving to TRY and be future proof.
Its actually got to do with the frame rate Neo.
The 3D image has to be rendered twice, once for each eye. At 120hz, the screen can do 120FPS, split into 60FPS for each eye with 3D glasses. At 100hz, you will get 50FPS for each eye.
This unfortunately leads us to the next big problem, that the game has to be running at 100+FPS for 3D vision to work acceptably. At 30FPS you will only be able to get 15FPS for each eye, which is very choppy.
The reason 3D vision hasn't quite picked up (yet?) in the PC world, is that it is monstrously expensive, even for PC gaming. You need the 100hz+ screen, 3D glasses (not the cheapo red and blue ones) and a Crossfire/SLI setup to run most games at 120FPS @ 1920x1200. Only recently with the Radeon 5970 does a single card 3D vision setup start to look possible, but that card is way out of most people's budget.
The 3D image has to be rendered twice, once for each eye. At 120hz, the screen can do 120FPS, split into 60FPS for each eye with 3D glasses. At 100hz, you will get 50FPS for each eye.
This unfortunately leads us to the next big problem, that the game has to be running at 100+FPS for 3D vision to work acceptably. At 30FPS you will only be able to get 15FPS for each eye, which is very choppy.
The reason 3D vision hasn't quite picked up (yet?) in the PC world, is that it is monstrously expensive, even for PC gaming. You need the 100hz+ screen, 3D glasses (not the cheapo red and blue ones) and a Crossfire/SLI setup to run most games at 120FPS @ 1920x1200. Only recently with the Radeon 5970 does a single card 3D vision setup start to look possible, but that card is way out of most people's budget.
Malphas
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Trust me, your plasma will be able to support 3D viewing. The discrepancy between 120Hz and 100Hz technologies has nothing to do with the technical superiority of one product over another. It has to do with the country's mode of power generation.
Specifically, the US and other non-conformist countries
generate electrical power at 60Hz; whilst the UK, South Africa and all the other advanced nations generate at 50Hz. In essence; a refresh rate of 100Hz in SA is exactly the same as a refresh rate of 120Hz in the US.Don't let salesmen fool you. For a greater refresh rate to function here; it has to be an interger multiple of our power frequency (50hz)...buying a 120Hz TV and connecting it to a SA supply will lead to the overfluxing of the set's internals. This will result in massive overheating and the TV's eventual failure.
/engineer off
Red and Blue glasses? You're joking right? Welcome to 2009 (almost 2010 for crying out loud). Those cereal-box 3D glasses are DEAD.
HANDsolo
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The only thing those glasses will be useful for is when you want to watch an episode of Red VS Blue, but only want to see one team in each eye
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Just google it, I saw somewhere that it's possible with a normal monitor. Maybe it was an article on Kotaku.com. Would've linked you up if I had cap.