a bit of a behind the scenes look at uh
the triple projector uh 3D Vision
surround setup that I've got going here now a lot of you guys in the MC Tech
tips episode I produced recently complained um with where I did the five
way 5x1 ifinity setup we're like oh well
there's too many bezels well here's your solution see right now you can see the
get the the setup is very ghetto like I've got racks with projectors on them
and then I've got basically a big white wall that I'm using to uh to fire the
mat so I'm still going through the driver setup of getting NVIDIA 3D Vision
surround going but uh I mean just for scale those are speakers that's a
printer box so that's that's like a laser printer box that's how big this
display is so uh stay tuned you guys I'm going to do sort of a few more in
progress shots probably here and then I'll upload this you can see the screens
aren't aligned just right yet I still got some work to do but we're getting
there got my G25 racing wheel over here
somewhere yeah got that going going to be
good all right guys here's another in progress so you can see I still don't
really have the screens lined up here's my test rig though and uh here we go if
I go into the NVIDIA control panel you can see man I got to zoom in so far just
to even see the screen I've got span displays with surround I had to
configure it so that they'd be in the right order but I have managed to get that figured out so my desktop starts on
the left moves to the right and then ends at the very far right okay so
that's done uh what I have also managed to get set up is the screen resolution
so the resolution we're running at is
3840 by 720 so this is basically 3 *
720p now 720p is not a big resolution in
terms of uh requiring Graphics horsepower to back it up but 3x 720P
basically works out to 2.7 million
pixels so if we compare that to some other common resolutions like let's take
1920 by 1080 which is only about 2 million
pixels basically or let's take uh like
2560 by 1600 so that's about 4 million
pixels so we're somewhere in between running 1080P and running like HD plus
uh 30-in monitor resolution here in terms of the horsepower required now
bear in mind too that we are going to be running NVIDIA 3D Vision here's my 3D
Vision glasses so that adds some extra burden on the graphics card as well so
you actually are running at an HD Plus resolution with 3D Vision so you're
going to need some serious horsepower such as say for example a GTX 590 which
supports 3D Vision surround natively on a single card and uh yeah so I'm going
to just do some more work here and then I'll be able to break out like the flight stick and the uh and the wheel so
almost ready to go I got just got to line things up a little bit better as well cuz that'll that'll be kind of
distracting during games so I've pretty much got it set up at this point there's
one of my co-workers uh playing around in Battlefield Bad Company too so look
look there's a person for scale that's how big that image is uh evidently he's
also not very good at Bad Company 2 cuz he's like dying already uh use your
grenade launcher Mouse wheel down there you go fire that at the truck
there you go anyway um so yeah yeah we're getting pretty close to being able
to shoot this episode of tech tips and
what I may actually do is wait till it gets a little bit darker outside cuz
this isn't really an ideal room for a projector setup but thank you for
checking out my preview of the 3D Vision
surround projector episode of NCIX Tech
tips that will be coming very shortly featuring The GeForce GTX 590 don't
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