Yes, that's right, now you too can wear goofy glasses in front of your PC monitor and feel as if the whole world of Azeroth is jumping out from the screen and into your computer room, all thanks to NVIDIA.
If you have a GeForce graphics chipset, then you just might be eligible to see the most played MMO in crazy three-dimensional glory. Thanks to the new patch for World of Warcraft, the game has become perfectly compatible with NVIDIA's stereoscopic 3D vision. What all of that means is that you can buy a really expensive pair of glasses, upgrade your NVIDIA card, and then gawk in the glory of 3D while anyone who passes by you wonders why you're staring at a blurry screen with a pair of awkward looking nerd glasses.
In other news, apparently NVIDIA doesn't want you to play Age of Conan. Games are given a "3D quality" rating on their vision website, putting the games into three categories -- excellent, good, and fair. For example, World of Warcraft has an excellent rating.
The only game with the rating "not recommended" is, strangely enough, one of the only other MMOs on the list -- Age of Conan. Now, we're not sure what "not recommended" totally means. It's probably playable, but it's not going to have as many 3-D qualities as WoW or another game on the list. Still though, is playing Age of Conan with 3D glasses akin to crossing the streams?
Reader Comments (10)
Posted: Jan 20th 2009 4:09PM JediPagan said
Too bad. Fatalities in 3D would be incredible! If Nvidia can make AoC run with the glasses weel, i'll buy a pair.
Posted: Jan 20th 2009 4:29PM (Unverified) said
pretty neat
Posted: Jan 20th 2009 4:37PM Holgranth said
I can't wait for that technology to get cheap enough for all us folks who can't justify it anyother way.........
Posted: Jan 20th 2009 4:55PM Aetrix said
If you did ANY homework at all regarding the technology before spewing this garbage, you'd know that practically any game with 2D UI overlays and screen effects (smoke, for example) will have some issues with the 3D glasses, even after the games are optimized.
You also might have avoided the embarrassment of your MASSIVE omission that users also need an expensive monitor capable of 120 Hz refresh rate, or a specially certified DLP Projection HD Television in order to use the glasses.
You also might have avoided the embarrassment of your MASSIVE omission that users also need an expensive monitor capable of 120 Hz refresh rate, or a specially certified DLP Projection HD Television in order to use the glasses.
Posted: Jan 20th 2009 11:45PM (Unverified) said
Yeah I was just about to drop the cash for the 3D kit but as of now there seems to be only two recommended monitors (120Hz).
I'm at 24" monitor right now and I don't feel like dropping cash on a new 22" just for this. The technology is amazing though and I want it soooon!
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I'm at 24" monitor right now and I don't feel like dropping cash on a new 22" just for this. The technology is amazing though and I want it soooon!
Posted: Jan 27th 2009 6:37PM (Unverified) said
Does anyone know or have tested these glasses with other MMO's such as EVE Online, Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heros, Warhammer Online....etc..etc. Just find it strange that the list only contained Conan, WoW, and SOTNW as far as i could tell for MMO's.









