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3dvision or eyefinity

Eyefinity or 3dvision

  • Eyefinity

    Votes: 118 59.0%

  • 3d vision

    Votes: 29 14.5%

  • both

    Votes: 27 13.5%

  • none

    Votes: 26 13.0%
  • Total voters
    200
after trying 3d vision I can't see how anyone can even compare eyefinity to it when setup properly.

Neither is new tech, but as far as an experience goes, nothing can touch 3d on a projector. Don't get me wrong eyefinity is cool, and would love to see both of them together on 3 projectors, but as far as picking one it's no contest.

I'm honestly wondering why so many of you are caring about this now but didn't give two shits when the matrox setup came out.
 
Murry said:
James Cameron's upcoming Avatar 3d movie is going to be huge!!!!! 3D cinemas will become more popular, replacing IMAX. More movies will be shot in 3d.
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Again I'm not putting down 3d use in games, but I would definitely pick watching the years biggest blockbuster in an IMAX theater over seeing it in 3d.
 
butterfliesrpretty said:
I'm honestly wondering why so many of you are caring about this now but didn't give two shits when the matrox setup came out.
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Matrox Triplehead2Go required a separate hardware purchase on top of the added monitors.
With ATi behind it, we'll see more devs taking a look at it.
 
Kowan said:
Matrox Triplehead2Go required a separate hardware purchase on top of the added monitors.
With ATi behind it, we'll see more devs taking a look at it.
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3 new monitors(very few have display port) or a non passive adapter is quite a bit of additional hardware.

My point is I think people aren't as immune to hype as they would like to think.
 
Kyle doing the review as video helped alot. If he was as excited over Matrox's version, I'm sure it would have sold cards too. ;)
Meaning CF/SLI needed.
My 3008WFP has a DP. Dell was the first to offer it. I'm not planning on buying two more 30in in the near future though. :D
 
butterfliesrpretty said:
I'm honestly wondering why so many of you are caring about this now but didn't give two shits when the matrox setup came out.
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Most people outside of techies have probably never even heard of Matrox. Matrox has what? Something like 1% or less market share.

So you needed a good graphics card, plus an expensive Matrox unit. Also when the Matrox triple head came out, monitors were more expensive. With the cheaper prices of LCDs two monitor setups have become popular just for general tasks. So most enthusiast are already two thirds of the way there, only one more monitor to go.

So now with ATI backing it, triple monitors have a good chance of become mainstream. It will certainly get a lot more support. Also with so many games being console ports nowadays, a good video card can easily run the same game better on 3 monitors than a console can run it on one. Plus the lower prices of LCD monitors help.
 
adriantrances said:
3D will be hard to implement, eyefinity just isn't my taste either.
This what I like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWivZEtH6-c&NR=1

or this even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsBln1V8MgI&feature=related
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Damn what a hottie in that second vid!!!!! Anyways, for me the utimate monitor would be a super widescreen monitor capable of say 3600x1200 at 120hz so you get both technologies and the resolution would be ok for a SLI Fermi to handle. This monitor would never exist obviously for marketing reasons since it would be a very expensive niche product. So I'm going to slowly build one in my off time when on not browsing the hardocp forums.
 
Stoly said:
Which one contributes more to better your gaming experience.
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neither.

i havent heard about this tech since today so i'm guessing it just came out recently, i woudl wait 2+ years until they have all of the details worked on.
 
And that every DX11 pc developer optimizes their game for this superwidescreen resolution + 3d with lots of pop out effects and no ghosting. There's a better chance of Intel buying out Nvidia that this happening. That has always been the problem with the open "standard" of pc techology. The software is not optimized for the hardware. So if a console had 3d and super widescreen tvs became the norm, all its games would be designed around these technologies with 100% compatability/no bugs.
 
Hulk said:
neither.

i havent heard about this tech since today so i'm guessing it just came out recently, i woudl wait 2+ years until they have all of the details worked on.
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Damn you sure know how to kill the party :( Ba humbug to you sir :)
 
Hulk said:
neither.

i havent heard about this tech since today so i'm guessing it just came out recently, i woudl wait 2+ years until they have all of the details worked on.
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I love it when people make decision based on such outstanding evidence and research. :rolleyes:
 
adriantrances said:
3D will be hard to implement, eyefinity just isn't my taste either.
This what I like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWivZEtH6-c&NR=1

or this even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsBln1V8MgI&feature=related
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I remember getting excited about that alien monitor, then when word came out that you had to sit in one position, couldn't move, and had to sit at a certain height other wise you had lines and really scewed color ... that hype went out the window.
 
butterfliesrpretty said:
after trying 3d vision I can't see how anyone can even compare eyefinity to it when setup properly.

Neither is new tech, but as far as an experience goes, nothing can touch 3d on a projector. Don't get me wrong eyefinity is cool, and would love to see both of them together on 3 projectors, but as far as picking one it's no contest.
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I voted for Eyefinity for the simple reason of I don't want to wear the 3d glasses. I already wear prescription glasses - and the 3d glasses on top of my regular pair of glasses just doesn't work. Get back to me when 3d vision doesn't require me to use stupid 3d glasses. Also, I spend most of my time on the computer not playing games. I'd *much* rather have the extra monitors than a 3d effect in game. I'm not saying 3D vision is bad or worse than Eyefinity, just that I don't think its worth the investment for me.

I'm honestly wondering why so many of you are caring about this now but didn't give two shits when the matrox setup came out.
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Because TH2G sucked? Originally you were limited to 3x 1280x1024, and then to 3x 1680x1050. $300 bucks to run 3 22" monitors is a large chunk of money, seeing as that alone can get you 2 22" monitors. Also, TH2G can't fall back to 3 regular monitors. I can turn off Eyefinity and have 3 independent displays, you can't do that with TH2G. Since I'm already running dual monitors, Eyefinity is tempting for me because to run it means buying 1 monitor. Not only that, but as a developer I would love to have another monitor for productivity reasons, but running 2 cards just for the extra outputs never really appealed to me (that, and until recently I didn't have the money, but hey ;) )
 
kllrnohj said:
I voted for Eyefinity for the simple reason of I don't want to wear the 3d glasses. I already wear prescription glasses - and the 3d glasses on top of my regular pair of glasses just doesn't work. Get back to me when 3d vision doesn't require me to use stupid 3d glasses. Also, I spend most of my time on the computer not playing games. I'd *much* rather have the extra monitors than a 3d effect in game. I'm not saying 3D vision is bad or worse than Eyefinity, just that I don't think its worth the investment for me.



It does work and was designed for that in mind. I wear glasses too and have no issue with it.
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I wear glasses as well and the glasses are confortable. Comes with 3 different nosepieces. As far as productivity, of course eyefinity wins but you can set up extended multi monitor view with Nvidia cards as well, just not SLS. This is about what's more immersive as far as gaming goes.....having 3 large screens wrapped around you in 2d so have a larger FOV and more resolution or a single screen in 3d that has depth. Both technologies compliment each other, which is why I personally think Nvidia is going to come out with something similar to this + 3dvision.
 
Playing BatmanAA in 3dvision is amazing, especially if you play around with the conversion. I have seen videos of eyefinity with the game on 3 monitors and while it does look cool to see extra parts of the level, especially the scarecrow plaform level, 3d wins IMHO. And then you add physx on top of this with stones, bricks, tiles, paper, real time smoke whirling all over the place in 3d :)
 
I've been to frys twice to try and check it out. The first time they didn't even have a computer in the booth. The second time the glasses apparently weren't charged up... Got to love the incompetence of frys.
 
I hate the prospect of bezels with eyefinity.. And I only see out of one eye, so 3dvision is utterly useless to me. Sooo.. none.
 
I'm interested how long the eyefinity hype will last. And what will developers do.

I think 16:9 is already a nice horizontal.
 
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