well I recently did a little video guide on how to install your NVIDIA GeForce
drivers today I'm going to be doing a quick little guide on how to set up
NVIDIA stereoscopic 3D so the first
thing I'm going to do is adjust my white balance so you're actually going to be
able to read dialogue boxes that are on the screen aha there we go okay so the
first thing we've got here is the NVIDIA control panel so we're going to go into
the NVIDIA control panel and we're going to discover something
when it loads yeah we are going to discover that I do not actually have any
options in here at all for 3D Vision or
stereoscopic 3D is what it would be under so the default drivers from NVIDIA
actually do not include 3D Vision drivers because I mean the reality of it
is 99% of people don't need it so you go to NVIDIA.com make sure you're always
downloading the latest drivers for 3D Vision because it is quite complicated
and they are making updates as often as they can so we select Windows 7 64bit
the same procedure as with your driver installation search and download it's a
300 megabyte full driver CD package and
since I've already downloaded it I'm going to go ahead and just run it so yes
I would like to run that particular
program go ahead and install the 3D
Vision driver so we click next I do not need the stereoscopic 3D viewer
personally but if you want it it by all means okay so it only takes a little
while to install actually and then the configuration
process is quite simple first of all you need to be wearing your I'm going to
just turn this thing you need to be wearing your 3D Vision
glasses okay next you need to make sure
that your IR emitter is plugged in via USB to the back of your computer so you
should see a dim green light and I'm going to show you the difference so okay
go ahead and finish okay y all right so
now we go into the NVIDIA control panel again and there's going to be an option
that we didn't have
before oh yeah your glasses should also be charged they charge via USB and the
uh power button is here so they should
be charged and on so we do not have an option for ah
here it is set up stereoscopic 3D so go
ahead and click there and then we're going to use the setup wizard because
just clicking enable stereoscopic 3D uh might not configure everything properly
I don't know I haven't tried but the wizard takes only a couple minutes to
run and walks you through some of the stuff that you need to know about 3D
Vision before you use it so first of all it gives you a little checklist for all
the things that you need to do for either 3D Vision or 3D Vision discover
which is a a red blue Ana
anaglyphic yeah I think it's anaglyphic anyway either way it's red blue lens
system rather than the active shutter glasses so we go ahead and click next
okay this shows us how to connect the IR emitter which I have already connected
USB to the back of the computer it's quite straightforward okay we click
next and then you select the kind of gaming configuration that you'll be
using so single gaming computer in a
room running 3D Vision where there are not other consumer IR devices such as TV
remote control at the same time okay then you've got if you've got
interfering things in the room and then there's also multiple gaming computers
in a land gaming environment all running 3D Vision so that's where there would be
a ton of interference because the IR emitter is actually just blasting out IR
signals that tell the uh the shutter glasses when to when to shut off when to
when to blank the frame for one eye versus the other okay so the next step
now yeah you can't tell but my glasses
have actually gone quite dark so this is the step the glasses turn on so I'm
going to go ahead and let you look through the lens you see how dark the
screen is compared to there it's because
it's blocking out every other frame the monitor is running at its full 120 HZ it
is a 3D Vision ready monitor I hope I mentioned that you need one of those and
so press the onl look for a steady green
light on the glasses as well as on the emter so that's the bright green light
that I didn't show you before and there's no steady green light on those
for whatever reason but they're on trust me they're on okay so I'm going to go
ahead and put these back on okay so now that that's all figured
out our glasses are on the emitter is on we are seeing that the image is dark
this one so if I look close you see you can see both a green hexagon and a blue
triangle but I'm going to show you something interesting if you look through the right lens you see only a
blue triangle if you look through the left lens you see only a green hexagon
so this is how 3D Vision Works there you can see both of them so it's blocking
every other frame so on the monitor every other frame is displaying that
green hexagon and every other frame is displaying the blue triangle so it's
blocking it so my left eye sees the left image my right eye sees the Right image
so for this part it says look through the right eye with the left eye closed
so we do that okay select what you see we see a blue triangle if you look
through the left eye with the right eye closed
we see a green hexagon so I'm going to go ahead and select those options blue
triangle green hexagon excellent uh this
one do I notice a flicker in your peripheral vision okay this helps you
configure it if you um if you're in a European area where they have 50 HZ
power or a variety of other things so no I do not notice a flicker in my
peripheral vision I go ahead and click next this is the last one verify that
you are able to view stereoscopic 3D content so here I'm going to show you
something interesting too select which of the following you see one with a box
popping out or one without a box box popping out right now you see one
without a box popping out but let's see what happens if we do this yeah that's
not going to work okay hold on if I hold these far enough away will I be able to
see the box at all this might be
tricky hold on okay so what I need is I need the glasses as close as possible to
where the Box pops up no this isn't going to work okay well you're going to have to trust me then uh I can see it
this way right here also I have red and understand the
health and safety information this is one of the reasons I would definitely
recommend uh running the wizard so that you can make sure that you read and
understand that I click next and then that's it I don't want to
create a shortcut for that I don't want to launch a slideshow of 3D games then
you click finish so once that's done you
can see that the NVIDIA control panel has gone ahead and configured itself you
can uh you can change the maximum depth you can also do that with the SC uh
slider wheel on the back of the IR emitter when you're in game so you don't
have to change the the maximum depth on the driver level you can set your
keyboard shortcuts and you can test stereoscopic 3D it launches this
horrible horrible thing here I'll show you this is so old here it's pretty
funny actually it's the NVIDIA logo popping
out at you it actually looks kind of funky on one monitor but when you
stretch this thing over three monitors it's just just horrible this pink and
yellow and black and gray thing anyway
3D Vision is working on this system thank you for checking out my 3D Vision
setup guide don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
tips oh yeah last thing make sure you have a video card that supports 3D
Vision um here's your first hint if
you're running one of these it does not support 3D Vision ATI currently does not
have a stereoscopic 3D uh technology so
you must be using an NVIDIA card 8800 series or higher in order to take
advantage of 3D Vision