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Nvidia 3D Vision Surround: 3 Monitors With 3D

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If 3D gaming on one monitor isn't enough for you, maybe three will suffice.
Nvidia came out in force today, unveiling the next generation of Tegra as well as bolstering its presence in the 3D marketplace. This concerns the latter.
I stopped by the Nvidia booth earlier today to catch up on the latest and greatest in 3D tech. The press conference earlier today covered most of the bases, but the 3D Vision Surround demo beckoned. 3D Vision Surround takes the existing 3D Vision concept/hardware and triples it. In other words, you're playing a PC title, in 3D, over three different screens.
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The hardware needed inside your gaming machine isn't as simplified as AMD and the Radeon 5000 series cards that can power three displays on one card. The Surround setup requires two Nvidia cards in SLI; The demo on the show floor was running two "Next Generation" GF100 GPUs. One GPU powers the left and center displays, and the other powers the right display. In this case, the displays weren't monitors, rather three 120 Hz DLP projectors pointed at one very long screen. If you happen to have three 120 Hz monitors lying around, you should be good to go.
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source :- http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Nvidia-3D-Surround,news-32529.html


mathwat
 
You're turning into Mattheman!

RSS posts, whilst informative, are a little.. shallow. At least post some of your own opinions on the news you post.
 
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You're turning into Mattheman!.

RSS posts, whilst informative, are a little.. shallow. At least post some of your own opinions on the news you post.
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Ok no prob, will in future comment on my posts.;)


mathwat
 
Wilderbeast said:
Well thats new??? With SLI of old you could not use the 2nd cards outputs.
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You can now use other outputs other than just the primary.

ejr22 said:
Will this triple monitor solution rely on DisplayPort? Has there been any confirmation of the range of outputs of the GF100 (DVI, HDMI etc)
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According to what I've read they will be using a software alternative(as the GT200 series can support this aswell), and it requires SLI instead for the extra outputs, so they will most not likely use a displayport.
 
It does make it sounds like they won't be bothering with display ports.
The pictures (whether real or not) of Fermi only had the 2 DVI ports on them so if this requires SLI I'm guessing their not bothering.
Good to see that they at least have a 3 screen solution.
how much would 3x 120Hz projector set you back these days?
 
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