YouTube Now Comes at You in 3D Vision, Firefox Required
YouTube Now Comes at You in 3D Vision, Firefox Required
Posted 05/26/2011 at 10:55am
| by Paul Lilly
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YouTube, the video sharing site that turned six years old this week, is for the first time giving users the ability to view thousands of 3D videos in stereoscopic 3D on their Nvidia 3D Vision PCs and notebooks, Nvidia announced today. Not everyone gets to participate in the fun, at least not right off the bat. Thanks in part to the ongoing web standards war, the ability to view streaming stereoscopic 3D visions with Nvidia 3D Vision-enabled PCs is exclusively available to Mozilla's Firefox 4 (and above) browser.
"We're excited to introduce HTML5 and WebM support to the thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube," said Jonathan Huang, 3D Product Manager at YouTube. "By embracing these open standards, Nvidia 3D Vision users now have a great way of experiencing YouTube's library of 3D content."
To view videos in the new format, you need an Nvidia 3D Vision kit, compatible PC or notebook with the latest GeForce drivers (version 275 or above), and Firefox 4 or above. Once you have all your ducks in a row, you just need to select the HTML5 viewing option when viewing a YouTube 3D video.
Image Credit: Nvidia
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FrancesTheMute
May 26, 2011 at 2:02pm
Considering it's Youtube (owned by Google), it's surprising that it's Firefox and not Chrome.
Holly Golightly
May 26, 2011 at 10:10pm
I was rather confused that Google's YouTube can only display 3D content to their Chrome browser's competitor FireFox. But if nVidia is going by web standards, then they did not make this feature exclusive to Internet Explorer? It just doesn't seem to make any sense that they would pick FireFox who actually has a smaller segment of the market in comparison to Internet Explorer. Anyhow, I do not have nVidia 3D vision... So I am not worried about the browser, or the feature at all.
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