Neil Schneider from MTBS has managed to catch Andrew Fear, Senior Product Manager for Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision for a short interview at the 2012 CES. In the interview Andrew Fear talks about a new VR racing simulator for stereoscopic 3D gaming with triple monitor setup, the new 3D Vision 2 Glasses and 3D Lightboost monitors, stereo 3D game profiles and compatibility as well as MTBS’ GameGrade3D, timelines for the next round of GPU technology, stereoscopic 3D notebooks and S3D-capable mobile devices based on Tegra…
Here is the first part of the video interview with Andrew Fear, Senior Product Manager for Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision, and the second part you can watch by following the link below. With the interview you can quickly catch up on the latest stereoscopic 3D-capable offerings from Nvidia and also get some information about what to expect from the company this year. Stereoscopic 3D-capable tablets with Tegra 3 is something that I’d be very interested to see not only as a demo, but as an actual products on the market…
GameGrade3D is a user driven database for the stereoscopic 3D compatibility of games with multiple different 3D solutions available on the market. Profiled options include DDD’s TriDef 3D software, the iZ3D Driver, Nvidia’s GeForce 3D Vision, and native 3D (e.g. AMD HD3D) solutions. GameGrade3D is set to replace the MTBS’ 3D Game Analyzer by adding more features and a new algorithm for rating games in stereoscopic 3D mode, by building on top of it. One of the things that could be very useful is the ability to upload and share your own custom profile for games, so other people would be able to just download and try them to get better experience even if they are not that advanced yet to create their own profiles. Have in mind that GameGrade3D is currently a public beta, so any comments and suggestions for improving it are more than welcome…
Some more interesting video interviews from CES 2011 made by Neil Schneider from MTBS, this time with Sony about their 3D-capable products, interesting to watch if you weren’t able to visit CES this yea. In the first part Neil interviews John Wyckoff, technical product planning manager at Sony, who tells all about the upcoming Sony Bravia 3D HDTV product line, including upgrades to the way they render stereoscopic 3D content, including a bit on how the shutter glasses work and why Sony’s glasses do not get the stereoscopic 3D image as dark as with some other solutions. As well as a bit about on what 3D content to expect this year to be available.
In the second part of Sony interviews the topic is the PS3 game Killzone 3 that will support Stereo 3D as well as PlayStation Move controller. Here Neil talks with David Bull, SCEA Product Marketing Specialist, who gives the low down on what to expect, new Move attachments, pricing, and more.
Next up is Sony’s new stereoscopic 3D Handycam camcorder and 3D Bloggie presented by Amy Koppman, training manager at Sony. She talks a bit about the new consumer Sony HDR-T10 3D HD camcorder that is soon going to be available (in April for $1499 USD) and about the much more portable and affordable Bloggie 3D video recorder that will be available in March/April for $250 USD.
The last video covers Sony’s 3D Head Mounted Display prototype that has been demonstrated during CES 2011 as Neil talks with Raymond Stanley, senior manager training and content at Sony. This device is something that may or may not appear as a product on the market, but that does not make it look less cool. Of course it will be nice if Sony makes it available as recently HMD devices have been left behind and there is a big potential for such products. It kind of looks like a device that just came out of the TRON movie.
