News - Firefox and nVidia bring stereoscopic 3D to YouTube

[HEXUS]

Collaborative effort sees new, improved option for 3D on the web.

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[bledd]

Until we have desktop screens that don't need 3d glasses, I can't see this really taking off

Will be awesome when we do reach this point though

[MadduckUK]

hopefully the red team are going to do something similar, although why youtube are working on a vendor specific solution rather than an open standard i don't know.

[Brewster0101]

nVidia very keen to push a technology that has very little success in the last twelve months. Very few users, very little interest, very little interest after the intial 'oooo' factor from twelve months ago.

Gaming will make 3D more popular but at the moment I don't think there is enough interest from users or programmers.

[Whiternoise]

I'd be interested to see if this works (eventually) with 3D enabled televisions. We have televisions that are internet-ready, most with Youtube integrated and we have televisions with 3D technology. Why not combine the two?

The problem with Nvidia's tech is that there are still only about 20 screens (plus TVs and projectors) that support the fast refresh rates needed - and they're mostly expensive. Not to mention not many games are specifically designed to work in 3D, so you end up like most movies - a bit of depth, but no set pieces or gameplay that exploits it.