Passive 3D

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Is there anything that's in the pipeline for this on the PC?

Not a fan of the active 3D setups - would much prefer using the passive glasses even if it took a bit more tech on the PC. I've heard of a couple of attempts but is there anything going seriously in this direction or are we locked in to nvidias solution?

 

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In contrast, if you got a monitor that does 3D via dual-link DVI or displayport (which have much more bandwidth than HDMI) then you can play in 3D at 1080p@60Hz (per eye), so achieve a better gaming experience so long as your graphics card can keep up (a GTX 480 should do well).

Could you recommend a few screens? This seems like the best solution and i'd guess i'll be going up a size rather than down one (as around 27" you start seeing dual link).

If I track down a passive 3d displayport i'm basically golden though yes?

The nvidia setup can be made to play nice with passive from what I read here too? (did have a little look at it and it was offering a few different setups)

 

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The BenQ XL2420T and Samsung S23A750 were 2 i'd considered. I'm really not liking the idea of the shutter glasses though. My eyesights pretty good to be honest minus a bit of myopia (text is a bit hard to read otherwise i'm very good, probably borderline road legal without glasses) but there seems to be a lot more anecdotal evidence of eye strain and headches etc with the actives.

I know it's a "your milage may vary" type thing with different folks being bothered by different methods but the actives seemed to get a bit more of it.