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Alright looking at the GeForce 3DVision Glasses
by NVIDIA. This was my favorite toy at CES,
I had a blast playing with it, it was really cool
and I finally have it here to review.
Now I haven't gotten the chance to make this video
because of obvious injuries to myself
but now I have the ability to unwrap
a 22 inch, 120 hertz monitor,
unwrap the box with glasses and play with them
and I'll tell you what, it's absolutely incredible.
Everything about this product is awesome.
People were all like it's gimicky, it's 3D,
it's BS. It's not. It's incredible, it's awesome,
it works, and it's not gimicky. It's very very cool.
Now let's talk about this. This let's you look at games,
movies or photos in 3D. It's incredible 3D.
Now the technology behind it has been around for ages,
it's stereoscopic vision. It's been around
for a really really long time. It's what IMAX uses
in their 3D movies, it's what everyone's used in 3D movies.
Now what happened was this stuff used to exist,
you used to get this from like a voodoo card from NVidia
back in the day, but what happened was
to get a straight framework they needed at least 100 hertz
or higher, so when we had CRTs it worked fine.
They sold it, it bubbled up in video cards
in like in the early nineties but then we switched to LCDs
and those refresh at 60 hertz
so you're cutting your frame-rate in half,
everything got choppy and it was no good,
but a new technology that has come to market
has made this technology viable again
and that is the 120 hertz monitor, LCD monitor.
What that lets you do is pretty much chop that in half
to give you two different perceptions
and then these glasses are like shutters
that open and close at 60 hertz per eye
and so you can actually have two different movies
playing sort of at the same time,
chopped in between each other and these are open and close
to give your eye two different perceptions.
And this very very cool technology,
it's been around for a while and now that 120 hertz LCDs
have come back we can do it again.
So that brings me to my first point.
To use these glasses you need 120 hertz monitor.
Now currently, as of the time that I film this
there are two available. There is the Samsung
and there's a Viewsonic, ok?
This is what you're going to be looking for
when you're monitor shopping. You see that right there?
That tells you GeForce 3D Vision ready.
That is one of the things that you need.
Now another thing you're going to need
is definitely a Dual Core and 8800 series and up graphics card,
so that's, do not use an 8600, I said it,
8800 and up, so 8800s 9800 GTX Pluses,
9600 GTs, GTX 280s, GTX 285s, GTX 250s,
all those cards will work but it's got to be 8800 and up.
Also remember you want to have a lot of graphics horsepower
behind these because these kind of slow down your frame-rate
a little bit, so if you're playing
a very intensive game like Crisis
and you have a slow crappy computer
it's going to look terrible in 3D.
Now also I want you to know that there is not a problem
with games supporting 3D vision,
it's not like you have to get a 3D game.
There are 350 games that are either rated as good
or excellent by NVidia for using the 3D glasses.
Check out this list real quick.
See that's incredible, 350 games.
That's absolutely incredible, so it's really supportive
of everything plus this is a technology
that you're going to see all game developers adopting
in the coming future so you're not going to need to worry about
whether this is going to fade out.
This is a solid investment
if you do have the money to pay for it.
Just keep in mind that you do have to buy
a 22 inch, 120 Hertz monitor. Now let's keep going with that.
Let's talk a little bit about the glasses first of all.
Let's take a look at these.
First of all you're going to notice
that they are very cool looking.
They are not nearly as geeky as most 3D glasses
seem to be, they're very dark
and they actually have very good high quality optics.
Right here that's actual glass so you've got to be careful,
these are actually real glasses.
Another thing if you're like me and you're four-eyed
these actually fit over your regular glasses,
so you don't have to wear contacts.
So obviously they're not the most stylish glasses
but they're not meant for that.
They're meant you know, you close the door,
you turn the game on and you play by yourself,
you're not going to be playing 3D stuff in the wild.
So very good stuff like that, great optics.
I'll give you a brief tour, just so you know,
if you can zoom in right there,
I don't know if you can see it, try.
Getting the light, now focus. That is how you turn them on,
so if you want to power it on, you push this button
and you hold it and that will boot it up.
You get about 40 hours per battery charge,
see the red light means that it's out of battery.
Normally it turns green. Now to charge it
you have a nice little USB right there.
So that's going to charge, all it takes is a couple of hours
to charge it and it will last for 40 hours non-stop game play.
Another thing that's cool about this
is they have interchangeable nose pieces,
so depending on if you're wearing glasses underneath,
or you have a big nose
you can actually change change these pieces.
They give you two different ones
to make sure that they're absolutely as comfortable
as possible and to make sure that they fit right on your face
so you get the best 3D vision.
Now let's talk about some more stuff,
let's see what comes in the box.
First of all I want to show you guys
this is your IR transmitter. Very very very cool.
This is, pretty much within 1.5 to 30 feet
is the range of this. It is IR, and on the back of it
is very simply you have a mini USB 2.0 cable
which hooks up to your computer.
This is to adjust the 3D-ness,
yes that is right, the 3D-ness.
If you want to increase the depth of field
you crank it up or you lower it.
Now what's really good is every game is different,
every person is different. When you boot up any game,
NVIDIA's drivers automatically bring up a dialogue box
that tells you what setting is probably going to be best
and from there you can adjust this up or down,
you can also adjust it inside the operating system
without actually touching a ***
which is very useful, and that gives you
the best gaming experience possible.
Also this 3D Sync-in right here,
that's a stereo cable. This is to hook it up.
One of the other options you have,
besides a 120 Hertz monitor,
is going to be a DLP Mitsubishi home theater television.
Those big big Mitsubishis support the 3D technology.
You can use those no problem,
you can also use a 120 Hertz projector
so that's another option as well.
When I saw it at CES it was with a projector
and it was incredible. I watched Star Wars
on a like 100 inch screen in 3D and I was going crazy.
I was bugging out. So if you want to use that
on your Mitsubishi you hook that up to here,
you hook up this to your computer
and then you hook up your computer to your television
with the provided DVI to HDMI cable.
Now that's another thing that comes in the box
which is very impressive. They give you full support of cables,
so to go from your DLP TV, from you computer to your DLP TV
you're going to need a HDMI cable on one end,
and a DVI on the other. This goes from your computer
to your television and then in turn
you use this tiny little sync cable,
this is going to go pretty much into your, into this little box,
and this is going to go into the back of your Mitsubishi TV
to sync it all up. You use these cables
and then you also have cables for USB and anothe USB cable
and these are for charging the IR transmitter
and for charging the glasses which is extremely extremely cool.
You also get a green wipey cloth which is nice
and an NVIDIA glasses case which is important
because you don't want to scratch these
when you're not using it. It's very very cool
and necessary to have something like this.
You don't want to ruin your investment.
Now let's talk about SLI support.
Like I said you need a lot of horsepower to run this device,
it's going to slow down your frame rate a little bit
so if you're already running a game
at 30 frames per second, it's going to get a little more choppy,
it's not going to be any good.
So you want to make sure you have lots of graphics horsepower
and you can do that because this supports 2-way SLI.
Now there are future drivers that are going to support 3-way SLI
and quad SLI but for now it's only two.
Another good thing is that you're going to expect
to see drivers mature, and as new drivers come out
you're going to get better performances,
both in the game and in 3D.
And that is it, that is all you need to get 3D gaming,
3D movies, 3D photos, the GeForce 3D Vision glasses.
They're awesome. Your games are going to look incredible,
I particularly recommend Call of Duty, World of Warcraft
and Left for Dead. They all look awesome,
watching movies is incredible
and you get a lot of great demo videos
that come with the drivers.
If you have any questions on this great product email me,
and I'll see you guys next time.
For more information on the NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision glasses
type in NVIDIA-3D into the search engine
of any of these major retailers.
For ComputerTV, I'm Albert.
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