Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Would it be Worth Buying a 3d Gaming Monitor?

By James Evans


Do you ever remember the old three dimensional movies of decades ago? Those movies had some poor three dimensional effects, but they were still fun to watch. To create the on-screen action show up in 3D, you needed to wear red and blue 3D glasses. In older times, this was pretty cool. This day and age, there are many better ways of creating games and films appear to be real 3D. Because of three dimensional movies such as Avatar from James Cameron, this brand new hype is gaining momentum. The consumer includes a sought after demand for three dimensional in their own house. The industry has reacted to the demand by giving the supply.

This era, there are hd televisions. A lot of modern television models now incorporate three-dimensional functionality. To watch movies in 3D, you'll still be required to wear appropriate glasses. Many of these televisions are based on active 3 dimensional shutter glasses. Others are dependant on passive 3-d glasses.

Time will only tell what type of these technologies becomes the dominant one. We will have to be happy with the 3d images systems we have now today, until one wins the battle. But 3D doesn't have to be limited by just movies, as it may also be used in games. Naturally, games are actually three-dimensional for quite some time already. But the main problem is usually that the 3 dimensional environment is projected on a 2 dimensional monitor screen.

Because of technological progress, graphics cards are starting to generally be really powerful. Calculating a couple of images while keeping up a good frame rate, is beginning to become feasible. The three dimensional graphics card's computed images can be shown by a 3 dimensional monitor. As effective as with the movies, you'd still have to wear three-dimensional glasses in order to create the effect come to life. What I would like to see in the future is a pair of 3 dimensional gaming glasses that are designed to put the images right on your retina. A pair of glasses such as this will truly place you in the midst of the experience. Game world immersion will undoubtedly be unlike anything the world population has ever seen.

But before we develop such a technology, have to make due with what we have today. a 3D gaming kit was introduced by NVidia some time ago. This kit was introduced with active shutter glasses. Only 1 eye at a time are able to see an image, because the glasses will shut alternating. A 3D effect would arise, if a computer game were to showcase images for the left and right eye alternating. The problem is that your graphics card must compute twice the frames. You could possibly suffer from low frame rates. Also, you'll still have to invest in a compatible monitor yourself. So it can be quite expensive. However, the technology will become a lot cheaper at some forward point, considering that it always does!




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