nVidia Promises 3D For All Games May 01, 2008

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3D, the entertainment almost-ran, is hardly a mass-market consumer technology for movies and games but nVidia thinks it has a solution.

The company is working on a software driver for its graphics cards that will allow any PC game to be played in 3D without games developers having to do a thing. Can it really be that simple?

The software will let gamers choose between ‘normal’ or ‘3D mode’. Simply put, it works by creating a left-eye/right-eye view of the game and will require some special 3D glasses to combine both into the 3D experience. nVidia claimed it’s working on the glasses – a real departure for the card company.

And, before you groan with the memory of the crappy plastic and cardboard things you get in the cinema, nVidia’s Drew Henry, general manager of the company's Media Communications Processor (MCP) group, promises they’ll be cool and ‘not geeky looking’.

I’d like a bit of 3D gaming myself but I’m yet to be convinced that nVidia’s seemingly simple software approach can pull it off. I hope it does. It’ll be a lot cheaper than the first dedicated 3D monitor.-Martin Lynch

[News.com]

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