Entertainment Steven Kippel on 26 Jun 2008

Mitsubishi promoting 3D video gaming

Mitsubishi promoting 3D video gaming

It’s been around for a while, but it’s now being pushed to retail with much more resources behind it. 3D gaming had originally been relegated to funky virtual reality booths at the country fair. More recently NVIDIA had developed the GeForce FX Go graphics processor to bring 3D gaming to PCs at home.

Unfortunately this hadn’t caught on with gamers. Very few monitors were compatible with the stereoscopic technology.

With the recent advent of Mitsubishi’s 3D capable DLP displays, there is now a newfound push for 3D gaming. Mitsubishi is teaming up with NVIDIA and Aspen Media Products to display 3D games at Fry’s Electronics and other A/V specialty retailers.

Mitsubishi LaserVue - Photo by GizmodoThe display will feature a Mitsubishi DLP HDTV with an Aspen Media Products Windows Media Center with a 2.4GHz AMD dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 1.5TB hard drive storage, and the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX video processor. This Media Center retails for about $1,999. It run on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system to make use of DirectX 10 features.

Because every GeForce series 7 or higher video cards support NVIDIA’s stereophonic technology, Mitsubishi is aiming at the existing market to proliferate 3D gaming.

This may be a last-ditched effort to save DLP technology, or it may just be the future of home entertainment.

Read more at TWICE
Photo by Gizmodo

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4 Responses to “Mitsubishi promoting 3D video gaming”

  1. on 26 Jun 2008 at 3:53 pm 1.Wesley Novack said …

    I’m more interested in the upcoming LaserVue TV’s (which also support 3D) and their price. DLP’s are terrible.

  2. on 27 Jun 2008 at 8:19 am 2.Steven Kippel said …

    The LaserVue TVs are DLP technology with a laser light engine.

    I actually like DLP. At least the 3-chip DLP projectors. Very natural colors, and good blacks.

  3. on 27 Jun 2008 at 11:33 am 3.Wesley Novack said …

    I read somewhere that LaserVue was not DLP. Thanks for the correction.

  4. on 27 Jun 2008 at 2:33 pm 4.Steven Kippel said …

    http://www.cepro.com/article/mitsubishi_details_laservue_tv/

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