3D Gaming on your TV with 3DTV Play

From August 2010, anyone with a 3D TV (all brands, subject to approval by Nvidia) will be able to use it for 3D gaming with a desktop or laptop computer equipped with Nvidia's 3DVision.

If you want to know more about how this technology works, then take a look at this article Vincent published in March: Nvidia graphics cards plug into 3D TVs with 3DTV Play. Here though, I want to brag about how I got to play Batman Arkham Asylum in 3D on Panasonic TX-P50VT20 Plasma TV! Check it out in the picture below (that's not me, by the way).


The input source is a PC with an Nvidia graphics card, and the glasses are those supplied with the TV. In our brief test of the system, the quality of the 3D image was really quite good. The depth of field in 3D, which is usually fixed in this model of TV, could be directly modified using the regular keyboard shortcuts (cf. 3D Vision: getting depth of field and convergence right). The overall experience was pretty good, and it was difficult to go back to gaming on the 22-inch Samsung 2233RZ after that.

3DTV Play pricing

This technology will be free for owners of the 3DVision kit. For everyone else, it'll set you back $39.99 (no UK pricing for the moment) and, obviously, you'll also need an Nvidia graphics card.


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