NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 Stereoscopic Gaming Glasses Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today's unboxing is extremely exciting yes more exciting than the holiday USB
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more exciting than the gift card this is the NVIDIA 3D Vision 2
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Wireless glasses or the NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 Wireless glasses kit so I'm going to
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unbox both of them and explain the subtle difference between the two kits
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but not with wearing my NVIDIA 3D Vision
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one glasses so you can see the boxes oh
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that just came apart the boxes look quite similar and the products are quite
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similar in terms of their functionality but we see a couple of huge upgrades
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that have to do with a few specific things so one specific thing is the
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Comfort level NVIDIA claims and I have not yet witnessed these glasses in
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person yet at this time time up till
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now NVIDIA's claim is that they are significantly more comfortable
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especially for those who already wear
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glasses so we will put that to the test NVIDIA's claim also is that light boost
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technology for which you need a supported monitor see light boost
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monitor light boost there we go gives you up to two times the 3D brightness
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with supported monitor so here we have a vg27 eight which I will be unboxing
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later but not at this time
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and actually those are those are the biggest oh no no the last thing yes what
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you may have noticed about about the vg278 is the fact that it is a large
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monitor it is a 27in monitor and NVIDIA's claim once again it's a claim
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because I've not yet verified it about the 3D Vision 2 glasses is that they
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will be far more suitable for large format panels due to the much larger
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actual lenses so you'll be able to take in more and deliver a more immersive
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gaming experience by having those larger frames and to have less sort of thick
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frame action going on within your field of view so I'm just taking this out just
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like that okay don't worry I'll get the
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glasses out at some point so this is the kit skew so the kit skew has the glasses
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which you can plainly see I am holding it also has uh extra nose pieces if you
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have sorry about that guys battery you know how it is so extra nose pieces for
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those who have different shaped noses me I have a fairly large nose this one
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tends to work for me just fine the default one we also have a three Pin
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cable as well as a USB charging cable so the three Pin cable is for Quadro users
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whose cards support that particular output if you have a 3D Vision ready
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monitor which I definitely suggest you use if you're a consumer then you do not
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need that cable we have another charging cable oh it looks like this is using
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that um I forget what this one's called but it's a different USB cable it's okay
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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
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is for charging the glasses and then this other one is probably actually a
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USB power cable for the emitter okay
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we've got a little baggie to keep your 3D Vision glasses in keep them nice and
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safe keep them from getting scratched all that good stuff we're going to go
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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
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and then you put like something else in here like a cable for example okay cool
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we've also got a little user guide for the USB IR emitter quick start guide and
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finally the IR emitter itself which has
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urg on the back of it some IR emission
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details and settings so that's to change the depth that's your 3D sync in which
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the cable is included which wasn't included with 3D Vision V1 and there's your power and data connection so let's
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test NVIDIA's Claim about larger lenses
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first so I am wearing a 3D Vision V1 glasses set and I'm just going to take
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off this plastic so you guys can see what these look like and all of their
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their 3D glory and I really wish it was
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easier to remove this plastic there we go got it yeah okay so a couple things
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oh look at that my uh
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okay so they've got little rubber things here so that's presumably to keep them
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from slipping and then they've also got a rubberized finish here on the here on
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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
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easily so there's a rubberized nose piece there in terms of the overall
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shape of the glasses here I'm just going to hold them side by side you can see
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that they are significantly wider and
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they're also wider sort of H how do I explain this yeah they're wider this way
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see how these squeeze in at the end these one the new ones the 3D Vision 2
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glasses don't really do that so they do have the little rubber pad here and then
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that is what keeps it from slipping rather than relying on pressure which could make the 3D Vision one
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glasses fairly uncomfortable after a while another thing about the 3D Vision
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one glasses is they have this bump here and then this other bump here so this
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bump was for the battery as well as the
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where the charging cable went and finally for the receiver the IR receiver
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on the 3D Vision two glasses the IR receiver is dead smack in the middle and
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then these bumps are significantly smaller even where the charging cable is
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concerned so what that means is that you're going to be able to wear them in
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theory with a headset more comfortably so you know what I'm going to come back
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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
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am with some sunglasses that I sced up and I'm going to try and put my 3D
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Vision V1 glass glasses over top of them so you can see that sits pretty far away
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from my face and the frames sit like
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within very much within my field of vision I mean I can see about this much
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above about this much below I can see all around it very well so hopefully the
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larger lenses will have some kind of an impact
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ah interesting okay you know what it does make a difference because from the
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side I I don't know if you guys can tell but for me it feels like it's closer to
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the glasses that I'm already wearing the sunglasses is it closer or is it not
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okay Slick's telling me it's closer but it could also be to do with the fact
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that the frames are more in alignment
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with the frames on these glasses cuz they're they're kind of enlarged so I
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don't see as much of the frames especially at the top at the bottom I still definitely catch the frames I can
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see quite a bit below them but that shouldn't be as big of a deal because
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the bottom is more like where your keyboard and mouse is as long as the monitor is going to be fully en captured
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which is not a word by the 3D Vision glasses and and the other thing that I
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wanted to check really quickly without glasses was whether they are more
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comfortable they're definitely lighter they're much much lighter these are very
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front heavy so as soon as you put them down they like well it'll fall I don't
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want to drop it but they're very very front heavy these are not quite as as as
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Hefty right in the front on the lenses they've used a lighter plastic on that
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and then yeah they don't have nearly as much weight to them although I got to
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say wearing them I still do feel like I'm wearing swim goggles a little bit
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here finally the last last test that I wanted to perform was whether I can
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actually wear a headset over top of them and the answer is that I can it's not
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perfect there's a bit of a gap here but that's sort of it seems like the price
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to pay for stereoscopic 3D whereas I'm
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going to show you guys with the 3D Vision one
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glasses what I had to do in order to
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wear a headset on them oh you know what this headset actually works really well
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with the 3D glasses in general so maybe it's a bad example but you guys can kind
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of see how it works you you can see the new glasses I think I've modeled them
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enough for you at this point and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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3D Vision 2 glasses don't forget you can either buy them as part of a kit if you
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have an emitter or you can buy supplementary glasses so it's $149 for
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the kit 99 for the supplementary glasses and if you already have an emitter from
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3D Vision 1 you only have to buy the new glasses you do not have to buy a whole
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new kit and then I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking
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