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Nvidia GeForce 3D glasses ready for shipping this year

Daniel Fleshbourne   via DigiTimes on 06 November 2008 - 10:03 · 4 comments & 2193 views

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According to sources in Taiwan's graphics card industry, Nvidia has outsourced the manufacturing of its GeForce 3D stereo glasses to EMS provider Flextronics, and the product has passed design validation tests (DVT) in October and is ready to be shipped before the end of 2008. Once the product is launched, Nvidia will not ship the product to all of its partners but will instead choose a sole distributor in each market zone to prevent price competition, and the product will be mainly targeted to system integrators (SI), especially in the China and South Korea markets, the sources explained.

However, if Nvidia does begin shipping the product this year, the company will not see much of a boost in its sales of related graphics cards, as there is currently only one display on the market that officially supports the product, and that product is a TV, not an LCD monitor.

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(2 replies) #1 Airlink on 06 Nov 2008 - 13:36
Plus there's no games that support it yet.
#1.1 _dandy_ on 06 Nov 2008 - 14:27
If done right, support can be done transparently through the video driver; the game itself doesn't even need to be "aware". I played a bunch of games a number of years ago, with a pair of goggles on a CRT...the effect was pretty good (though I would've needed a monitor with a higher refresh rate)...none of these games were "designed" for it.

Now that I've gone all LCD, the goggles have been collecting dust...
#1.2 _dandy_ on 06 Nov 2008 - 14:30
Never mind, now that I've read the article in its entirety, the last sentence makes it sound like it's not gonna be as simple as that... :-)
#2 badblood on 07 Nov 2008 - 09:18
I played CS1.6 on a GeForce 2 with the Stereo Glasses and it was brilliant. Didn't work well (and by well I mean at all) on LCD's though. Still looked great on a CRT.

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