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Everything You Need to Know about Nvidia’s 3D Goggle Gamble

Posted 09/17/2008 at 12:11:00pm

I've used shutter glasses on Nvidia for years, with CRT's and projector.

I've used anaglyph on TFT

I have a HMD which functions the same as shutter glasses.

N-VIDIA intentionally disabled support for all the above over version 91.31 for all devices except the TFT they recieved funding from. however by breaking a video cable pin to stop the driver being able to detect the monitor, they are useable again (and work fine on the geforce 7xxx series)

 They are now reselling this technology, as their own, even though 120hz shutterglasses have been available for a decade, and most good CRT's were capable of this. but guess what... now XP doesn't support it, even though it had done in the past, And it sounds like Anaglyph and non nvidia-approved shutterglasses are getting the boot too..

 most of the stereoscopic community have given up on nvidia (the've not released a viable stereoscopic driver for 3 years) and are pinning their hopes on iz3d to add back what nvidia intentionally broke

 

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