3D Gaming Returns!

NVidia is marketing a new set of 3D glasses for home gaming. Their old version was great – I used it for years, but early LCD screens lacked adequate refresh rates for doing 3D. That’s changed now and NVidia has decided its time to restart home 3D.

If you’re not familiar with the tech, here are the basics. You wear a pair of glasses which use lcds to switch rapidly between being transparant and completely opaque, very rapidly. The two lenses alternate so that when the left lense is clear the right lense is opaque and vice-versa. THe screen is co-ordinated with teh lenses so that it is flashing the left eye’s image when the left lense is clear etc. That’s why you need a high refresh rate: each eye only gets about half of the available bandwidth. If the total bandwidth is too low, the image will start getting jumpy.

Unfortunately this product is not in stores yet but apparently they will be soon!

Here’s more info from Toms’ Hardware.

A blog on distributed systems…

Although I blog elsewhere, I would like to have a blog for my personal computing interests which center around Terracotta, JPPF, and the non-Java languages erlang and Haskell. I have bene blogging about these, and other things at http://www.aerial-bear.com/bears/blog, but I would rather talk about distributed systems in a more public forum.