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Tegra and Ion take Center Stage - NVIDIA @ Computex 2009

By Vijay Anand - 4 Jun 2009

NVIDIA 3D Vision Discover

NVIDIA 3D Vision Discover

NVIDIA's 3D Vision kit is pretty awesome when it works best with a certain set of games, but what if the price tag of nearly US$500 is too much to belly for both the goggles and the 120Hz screen? Well, that's where NVIDIA steps in with the 3D Vision Discover. As its name implies, it's to get a taste of 3D and it works with any screen and any normal anaglyphic glasses. The experience is back to the most basic form of 3D experience, but then again it's to be expected since this is a no-cost alternative for basic 3D experience (or discover in NVIDIA's terms).

We checked out the 3D Vision Discover experience from this station playing Burnout Paradise. However having experienced the superior solution, the Discover edition feels tacky. But for those who've not yet experienced any form of actual 3D gaming, this is a great stepping stone. (You can't get it any better than free!)

And these are the very basic anaglyphic glasses needed to get you going to Discover 3D Vision. NVIDIA expects to get these glasses in every boxed graphics card since it's a very low cost solution. Games compatibility and experience level listing follow that of the more expensive 3D Vision kit.

Last but not least, NVIDIA had on display two machines set up for video conversion tasks on Windows 7. One was based on the NVIDIA Ion platform, while the other is a standard Intel Atom platform. The purpose was to showcase how Windows 7 and its DirectX Compute support allows it to manage tasks that can be handled on both the CPU and GPU to improve performance by a good degree - versus either relying only on the CPU or GPU.

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