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Spatial View currently has an interesting offer for a 19-inch autostereoscopic 3D display (no glasses needed to view the 3D image), bundled with Spatial View PowerPlayer 3D video playback software and one of the company’s digital content creation plug-ins. What is interesting in this bundle is the price as it is quite good for professionals looking for an autostereoscopic 3D display and using Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3DS Max, Adobe After Effects or Maxon Cinema 4D for creating stereoscopic 3D content. The display offers a native resolution of 1440×900 pixels and offers 5 viewing positions using parallax barrier to produce the 3D image without the need of additional glasses. The optimal viewing distance is between 0.8 to 1.50 meters away from the screen, the LCD panel is based on TN technology and has a response time of 5 ms, the maximum brightness is 380 cd/m2 and the maximum contrast is 1000:1. The 3DeeArtist Bundle is currently available with a price of $599 USD, which is a real bargain as only the 3D video player and any one of the plugins you choose are sold separately for a higher price than what you get with the bundle, so you can say that you kind of get the hardware for free.

- For more information about Spatial View’s 3DeeArtist Bundle limited offer…

I’ve been planning to get one of the iZ3D 3D Displays for quite some time now, but it turned to be quite a problem to actually purchase one and get it delivered from Europe and not USA. Anyway, the good news is that thanks to iZ3D now I have a 22-inch iZ3D Stereoscopic 3D Monitor available for reviewing games and testing, so expect to see more about it on the blog it very soon. You can also expect more game reviews, profiles, tweaks, guides and so on not only for 3D Vision, but for iZ3D too… that is provided if I manage to get enough time dedicated to doing all of these. But let me tell you about the iZ3D monitor a bit more and why it is so interesting compared to other solutions already available.

iZ3D has a different approach than what other passive polarized solutions offer at the moment and this has its own advantages and disadvantages. One of the most important advantages of the two LCD panels approach of iZ3D is the fact that you get full resolution image as opposed to just half horizontal resolution with the other passive products. Instead of having one panel and passive polarization filter in front of it to separate the screen in even and odd lines horizontally with different polarization, the iZ3D solution uses two separate LCD panels. The back LCD panel sets the brightness of the pixel and the front ones sets the right polarization. Then, based on the different polarization the 3D glasses route part of the light to the left eye and the remaining light goes to the right eye, so that you get full resolution stereoscopic 3D image. The disadvantage of that approach is that there might be more ghosting, but then again the amount of ghosting can be influenced by different factors and iZ3D is constantly trying to improve things. A recent example for that was the release of updated passive polarized glasses that do improve the results quite a bit compared to the first generation of glasses.

Of course I should also mention that the iZ3D driver has support for both Nvidia and ATI-based video cards, so you should be able to play in stereoscopic 3D no matter what your GPU is based on, provided that it is not too old or is too slow in terms of performance to handle S3D gaming.

- Visit iZ3D’s website for more information on their products….

The 23-inch 120Hz Alienware OptX AW2310 display with Full HD resolution is still quite new product, but it has generated a lot of interest among the stereoscopic 3D gaming community. With the reason being that this was actually the first on market, although not the first introduced 1080p display compatible with Nvidia’s 3DVision active shutter glasses for stereo 3D usage. It seems that Alienware AW2310 is a bit better than the first generation of 22″ 120Hz displays, but maybe not as much as everyone hoped it will be as a product using a second generation of 120Hz panel. Anyway, if you are interested in obtaining Alienware AW2310 for usage with 3D Vision for S3D gaming you better check the following review at Nvidia’s forums done by the user Jytra. It will answer some of the questions you probably had regarding the display and its usage for stereoscopic 3D gaming and not only.

- To visit the 23″ Alienware OptiX AW2310 display review at Nvidia Forums…