you know when you think about it 3D gaming is a bit of a misnomer sure in
many modern titles your character is moving around three-dimensional space as
opposed to the Sid scrollers of yester year but at the end of the day we're
gaming on flat two-dimensional monitors unless you happen to have one of those
newfangled curved displays but you know what I mean showing a 3D image on a 2d
display has long been an issue think for example about looking at a flat map of
the world on Google Maps which uses a map projection that makes Land masses
near the North and South Pole look way bigger than they actually are because
translating a 3D sphere the Earth onto a 2d monitor or map is an imperfect
process somewhat similarly your PC's graphics card has to project portions of
3D objects onto your screen a certain
way so that they appear to have the correct perspective and depth just as
real life objects do computers do quite a good job of this in most modern games
if you're only only rocking a single monitor setup but if you're running
three monitors where the two displays on the side are tilted toward you you may
have notice that some of your games look distorted and skewed on the side
monitors to understand the reason for this it can help to visualize your GPU
as a projector behind a set of translucent screens if all three of them
are lined up straight on one plane the image will look correct but setting up
your monitors like this takes up a ton of space and limits your field of view
so most people tilt their two side monitors inward but this would make a
hypothetical projector display a stretched incorrect image on those same
in displays enter simultaneous
multi-projection or SM SMP a new GPU
technology featured on NVIDIA's new GeForce 10 series that alleviates this
problem by essentially showing a different camera angle on each screen
going back to our projector analogy this is like having a separate projector
behind each screen instead of just one for your entire setup ensuring that the
shapes and objects look realistic instead of like poorly constructed
Play-Doh models but Teran doesn't that mean that my GPU has to render the same
screen three different times won't that kill my frame rates and make my $600
graphics card next to useless actually
most of the really heavy rendering of things like geometry and lighting are
done only once after that the multiple projections are created by using simple
trans forms that clip or squeeze the stuff that has already been rendered
which is much less compute intensive so you won't see a big dip in frame rates
the current version of the Tex supports up to 16 different projections so you
can have goodlooking visuals even if you have some sort of monstrous monitor
Arrangement a similar concept is used to push two slightly different projections
to each lens of a VR headset so that the
3d effect looks correct technologies
that in Nidia is calling single pass stereo and lens matched shading that
compensate for the fact that there are two lenses and the fact that the lenses
are curved instead of planer and if you've noticed that I keep talking about
NVIDIA that's because right now s SMP is
only a thing on their new GTX 1080 and
1070 on supported games however as VR
headsets and Surround gaming become more popular I wouldn't be surprised to see
something similar on MD cards in the near future especially with their new
Polaris architecture right around the corner so like the North Star hopefully
SMP and related Technologies can point
you towards a more immersive gaming experience if you just can't get enough
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