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…
I’ve kind of missed this announcement from Nvidia, about the availability of a 14-day trial version of their 3DTV Play Software, but they probably did not promote it well enough when it was launched (just found out about it and tried it). This is a good opportunity for everyone to test the compatibility of his 3D HDTV with the software, before actually having to buy a license for the product. The 3DTV Play software is needed to bridge the gap between your computer outputting 3D content and a 3D HDTV set that supports 3D input over HDMI 1.4 interface. Nvidia has a list of hardware that is tested and confirmed to work with their 3DTV Play software available, but that list does not yet cover all 3D-capable television sets as well as other hardware such as receivers and so on.
It seems that Nvidia is working hard in further improving the support for the 3DTV Play before releasing it as a standalone product probably by the end of this month. They just made available an update utility (not a standalone driver release!) that needs to be installed over GeForce driver v260.99 or v262.99 in order to update the list of supported 3D TVs by adding 18 new models from manufacturers like Philips, Samsung, Sony and Vizio. The update is more important for owners of owners of Samsung 3D-capable TVs that were not supported as the update introduces support for 9 additional models and if yours is still not in the list, then you can help Nvidia to add it by reporting your TV’s EDID info to them.
The list of 18 new HDMI 1.4 TVs that are now supported:
