today's unboxing is extremely exciting yes more exciting than the holiday USB
more exciting than the gift card this is the NVIDIA 3D Vision 2
Wireless glasses or the NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 Wireless glasses kit so I'm going to
unbox both of them and explain the subtle difference between the two kits
but not with wearing my NVIDIA 3D Vision
one glasses so you can see the boxes oh
that just came apart the boxes look quite similar and the products are quite
similar in terms of their functionality but we see a couple of huge upgrades
that have to do with a few specific things so one specific thing is the
Comfort level NVIDIA claims and I have not yet witnessed these glasses in
person yet at this time time up till
now NVIDIA's claim is that they are significantly more comfortable
especially for those who already wear
glasses so we will put that to the test NVIDIA's claim also is that light boost
technology for which you need a supported monitor see light boost
monitor light boost there we go gives you up to two times the 3D brightness
with supported monitor so here we have a vg27 eight which I will be unboxing
later but not at this time
and actually those are those are the biggest oh no no the last thing yes what
you may have noticed about about the vg278 is the fact that it is a large
monitor it is a 27in monitor and NVIDIA's claim once again it's a claim
because I've not yet verified it about the 3D Vision 2 glasses is that they
will be far more suitable for large format panels due to the much larger
actual lenses so you'll be able to take in more and deliver a more immersive
gaming experience by having those larger frames and to have less sort of thick
frame action going on within your field of view so I'm just taking this out just
like that okay don't worry I'll get the
glasses out at some point so this is the kit skew so the kit skew has the glasses
which you can plainly see I am holding it also has uh extra nose pieces if you
have sorry about that guys battery you know how it is so extra nose pieces for
those who have different shaped noses me I have a fairly large nose this one
tends to work for me just fine the default one we also have a three Pin
cable as well as a USB charging cable so the three Pin cable is for Quadro users
whose cards support that particular output if you have a 3D Vision ready
monitor which I definitely suggest you use if you're a consumer then you do not
need that cable we have another charging cable oh it looks like this is using
that um I forget what this one's called but it's a different USB cable it's okay
Slick's trying to tell me what it is but it doesn't really matter basically it's this one rather than a mini B and that
is for charging the glasses and then this other one is probably actually a
USB power cable for the emitter okay
we've got a little baggie to keep your 3D Vision glasses in keep them nice and
safe keep them from getting scratched all that good stuff we're going to go
ahead and take that out look at that it's a nice little mesh bag there put that in there no you put that in there
and then you put like something else in here like a cable for example okay cool
we've also got a little user guide for the USB IR emitter quick start guide and
finally the IR emitter itself which has
urg on the back of it some IR emission
details and settings so that's to change the depth that's your 3D sync in which
the cable is included which wasn't included with 3D Vision V1 and there's your power and data connection so let's
test NVIDIA's Claim about larger lenses
first so I am wearing a 3D Vision V1 glasses set and I'm just going to take
off this plastic so you guys can see what these look like and all of their
their 3D glory and I really wish it was
easier to remove this plastic there we go got it yeah okay so a couple things
oh look at that my uh
okay so they've got little rubber things here so that's presumably to keep them
from slipping and then they've also got a rubberized finish here on the here on
the nose piece itself don't worry I won't catch you and it's okay I can control the angle of this one fairly
easily so there's a rubberized nose piece there in terms of the overall
shape of the glasses here I'm just going to hold them side by side you can see
that they are significantly wider and
they're also wider sort of H how do I explain this yeah they're wider this way
see how these squeeze in at the end these one the new ones the 3D Vision 2
glasses don't really do that so they do have the little rubber pad here and then
that is what keeps it from slipping rather than relying on pressure which could make the 3D Vision one
glasses fairly uncomfortable after a while another thing about the 3D Vision
one glasses is they have this bump here and then this other bump here so this
bump was for the battery as well as the
where the charging cable went and finally for the receiver the IR receiver
on the 3D Vision two glasses the IR receiver is dead smack in the middle and
then these bumps are significantly smaller even where the charging cable is
concerned so what that means is that you're going to be able to wear them in
theory with a headset more comfortably so you know what I'm going to come back
with a headset I'm also going to come back with some glasses and we're going to see how this goes from here so here I
am with some sunglasses that I sced up and I'm going to try and put my 3D
Vision V1 glass glasses over top of them so you can see that sits pretty far away
from my face and the frames sit like
within very much within my field of vision I mean I can see about this much
above about this much below I can see all around it very well so hopefully the
larger lenses will have some kind of an impact
ah interesting okay you know what it does make a difference because from the
side I I don't know if you guys can tell but for me it feels like it's closer to
the glasses that I'm already wearing the sunglasses is it closer or is it not
okay Slick's telling me it's closer but it could also be to do with the fact
that the frames are more in alignment
with the frames on these glasses cuz they're they're kind of enlarged so I
don't see as much of the frames especially at the top at the bottom I still definitely catch the frames I can
see quite a bit below them but that shouldn't be as big of a deal because
the bottom is more like where your keyboard and mouse is as long as the monitor is going to be fully en captured
which is not a word by the 3D Vision glasses and and the other thing that I
wanted to check really quickly without glasses was whether they are more
comfortable they're definitely lighter they're much much lighter these are very
front heavy so as soon as you put them down they like well it'll fall I don't
want to drop it but they're very very front heavy these are not quite as as as
Hefty right in the front on the lenses they've used a lighter plastic on that
and then yeah they don't have nearly as much weight to them although I got to
say wearing them I still do feel like I'm wearing swim goggles a little bit
here finally the last last test that I wanted to perform was whether I can
actually wear a headset over top of them and the answer is that I can it's not
perfect there's a bit of a gap here but that's sort of it seems like the price
to pay for stereoscopic 3D whereas I'm
going to show you guys with the 3D Vision one
glasses what I had to do in order to
wear a headset on them oh you know what this headset actually works really well
with the 3D glasses in general so maybe it's a bad example but you guys can kind
of see how it works you you can see the new glasses I think I've modeled them
enough for you at this point and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
3D Vision 2 glasses don't forget you can either buy them as part of a kit if you
have an emitter or you can buy supplementary glasses so it's $149 for
the kit 99 for the supplementary glasses and if you already have an emitter from
3D Vision 1 you only have to buy the new glasses you do not have to buy a whole
new kit and then I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking
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