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3D Games Reach the Summit

The first 3D Summit was held these week in Hollywood, and games took a step to the forefront.  3D movies are all the rage, but 3D games may be where the real action is.  This is where NVIDIA 3D Vision technology comes on strong.

"We've got to tell people about it," said Phil Eisler, general manager of NVIDIA 's 3-D Vision, which makes graphics cards with 3-D processing power. "Hollywood has done a fantastic job of educating consumers and marketing to them about the wonderful experience in the theater. We need to tell consumers about the wonderful experience that games are in 3-D."

Developers don't have to do anything extra to make their games work in three dimensions. But many companies are going the extra step to make their titles look better in 3-D by adding such enhancements as out-of-screen effects and showing in-game movies and backgrounds in 3-D. The results can be stunning.

"The best-looking game at the summit was Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Played on PC across three monitors, with NVIDIA's 3D Vision hardware doing the processing and a pair of wired active-shutter glasses on my head, the game looked dynamite."

NVIDIA 3D Vision is a stereoscopic 3D hardware and software solution that works out of the box with over 400 PC games and converts them into fully immersive, stereoscopic 3D gaming experiences.