Well it looks like NVIDIA may be giving us a free way to stream 3d content to our home computers, but there’s a lot of requirements for it to work. Basically NVIDIA has developed a plugin for the Microsoft Media Platform Player AKA Silverlight and it supports stereoscopic 3d playback of HD video content, built off the 3D Vision Live technology. You’re going to need an NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit, a 3D display or projector, Windows Vista or 7, and silverlight installed. The plugin works with IE 7, FF 3.6 or Google Chrome browsers. If you’ve got all those pieces in place, you can stream yourself some 3D content!
I find this new technology to be very exciting although in its infancy. Over the next few years we will be seeing more and more content available in 3D from live sports events to tv series all shot in 3D and available on premium 3D cable channels. I look forward to a time when there will be something akin to hulu or youtube but choc-full of quality 3D content available to stream right through a browser.
Let me know what you think in the comments section below!
There are instructions available to develop, deploy and stream 3D content from your own 3D website, or recieve streamed content from the web. The full details about the process are over at the NVIDIA BLOG.
