3D Vision Blog

DDD has released a new version of their universal stereoscopic 3D software packages for viewing 3D photos, videos and for playing games in stereoscopic 3D mode. The new TriDef 5.1 package includes a better detection of more AMD HD3D-capable configuration including the new Radeon HD 7000 Series of GPUs such as the 7970 and 7950 video cards. The new version also brings the number of supported games by the software to over 600 games (572 DDD game profiles and 35+ user submitted profiles). There are also support being added for nw games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic, LA Noire, Sonic Generations, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Anno 2070 and various other games; improved support for games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Skrim and other games; as well as some game specific issues being resolved. Unfortunately nothing much yet about stereo 3D support for upcoming titles that already have generated a lot of user interest such as Alan Wake, DotA 2, Microsoft Flight, Prototype 2, Mass Effect 3 etc. Still much better as compared to iZ3D that have been keeping “radio silence” for more than half a year since the release of their latest beta driver…

- To download the latest version of TriDef 5.1 stereo 3D software package…

One more video interview in stereo 3D format taken by Neil Schneider from MTBS during this years CES, this time the “victims” are Chris Yewdall (CEO) and Larry Wang (VP of Business Development) for Dynamic Digital Depth or DDD in short. This time the video is a bit long as the guys from DDD have some interesting things to share, because unlike iZ3D that are being quite silent for a while, DDD is quite active in partnering not only with AMD for stereoscopic 3D gaming, but with a lot more companies licensing their stereoscopic 3D technologies. And just to let know all of you that might not know it, DDD’s TriDef 3D software solution is also compatible with Nvidia-based GPUs, so it not only works on ATI/AMD-based hardware, but of course you need to have a compatible stereo 3D-capable display solution as well.

Lately DDD is also very actively partnering with companies offering autostereoscopic 3D display solutions, as well as companies offering additional accessories for converting 2D displays into stereoscopic 3D-capable ones such as Sony with their VAIO S laptops. DDD’s 3D technologies have also been licensed by many HDTV manufacturers, especially the automatic 2D to 3D conversion from DDD. So take a look at the interview for some interesting insight into what the company offers at the moment and what more to expect from DDD in the near future…

- To watch the stereoscopic 3D video interview with DDD taken at CES 2012…

Today DDD has released another update for their TriDef 3D software and it is an update to a new major version 5.0 after multiple updates for the 4.x releases that were made available this year. There are some changes that may sound in the new version such as the fact that the pretty pointless TriDef 3D Experience menu screen has been replaced by a new TriDef 3D Portal, that also integrates somewhat the company’s Yabazam.com 3D video service. This however sounds more interesting than it actually is as there isn’t much of a difference as compared to the menu before, this could probably be made more functional and “portal”-like as now pretty much everyone just runs the Ignition software ot the 3D video player directly. The thing that is more interesting is the new multi-language user guide available to help users that are new to the software as up until now it was quite hard to get started with the TriDef software for people that are new to stereo 3D and the software itself…

But most of the new things of course are related to improving stereo 3D support in games in this update or with other words done for the TriDef 3D Ignition part of the software. According to the company the software now offers stereo 3D support with profiles for over 590 games (about 15 percent of which are Asian games) – 552 DDD game profiles and 40+ user submitted profiles (it is strange that the user submited profiles are not growing much, or they are just being added as regular game profiles). Some of the new profiles that were added cover new games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, FIFA 12, Pro Evolution Soccer 2012, Driver San Francisco and others. There is also a preliminary support for Battlefield 3 being added (more info here), but you should have in mind that the game still does not have the native stereo 3D support enabled, so you might want to still wait for the official S3D support in order not to get a bad stereoscopic 3D experience with the game at this moment.

- To download the latest DDD TriDef 3D Software Version 5.0…