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Nvidia admits 3D Vision defeat. Backtracks to the good ol' red & blue.

Yesterday Nvidia sent me an email with a link to this site. I looked at it briefly and I was confused about the red and blue glasses the page mentions. The 3D Vision I am familar with does not use red and blue glasses. Well this article at PC Perspective explains it all.

Remember when I said:

"...is the 3D gaming experience that GeForce 3D Vision provides worth the price? Well that really depends on the person. If you have enough money to buy it (without destroying your budget) and you have tried it for yourself then you could probably justify the cost."

Well apparently Nvidia has realized that $598 dollars (they dropped the price by $1!) is way too much money to spend on something that you can't appreciate until you try it. 

 

Red and Blue

Let me leave you this quote from PC Perspective's review:

The original “red/blue” method of producing a stereo 3D image is called “anaglyph” and is able to give each eye its own image by superimposing each frame of a video with a different color hue.  The viewer then wears correctly tinted glasses that filter out every other frame so that each is presented with a unique view.  Unfortunately the dramatic tinting of the image is nearly impossible for the brain to remove completely and thus seeing any kind of high quality content in this format was not acceptable.

Maybe my 3D Vision gear will become a collectors item...and maybe this is why Nvidia is letting me keep the 3D Vision hardware they sent me...


1 Comments
Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:02:34 PM
Pelter
n00b
Wow that sucks, Nvidia should have waited to release this one. The glasses weren't too expensive but it was the monitor, they should have waited until 120 hz monitors were more mainstream and cheaper. Also until higher powered video cards were cheaper, because this would lag any game you used to be able to play in proper frames and no one is going to just go out and buy (for example) another GTX 295 to see it run in proper frames again. This is like a $1000 investment. Nvidia should try this again much later, it was a great idea but too expensive. I looked at the site where u see the images, what are they trying to accomplish by showing you that. Its just regular 3-D with red and blue...
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