Zalman demos 19- and 22-inch 3D displays at CeBIT
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted March 18th 2007 9:52AM
posted March 18th 2007 9:52AM
Zalman is a company traditionally known for its cooling devices which, like almost every other company out there, is looking to diversify into different markets: like the, uh, 3D gaming display market. The company showed off two 3D monitors over in Hannover for CeBIT; one being a 19-inch 5:4 1280 x 1024 iteration targeted at gamers, and the other a 22-inch widescreen 1680 x 1050 model with a more general appeal. Both of the displays require the user to wear glasses to combine the stereo images, although Zalman promises that the price of these monitors will undercut the competition as a consolation. If you get a little bored / pick up a migraine, you'll be happy to know that the monitors are capable of switching between 3D and 2D modes, although if you're crazy enough to buy a 3D display in the first place we can't see you wanting to turn off your only justification for paying extra over a regular LCD. Unfortunately there's no word on specific pricetags, nor release dates, so if you're itching to make a silly investment in a display that simulates 3D, you'll have to hold onto your wallet.
is sro on that screen?
or is it wow
its WoW
it's idd WoW, i've been on the stand Friday. To play, you have to wear pretty geeky glasses though. next to that, accumilating to the 3 dimensional image is very hard, a guy told me he had been standing 10 min.'s before he saw some depth in the image, kinda weird. A total flop to me..
that would be the begining of a Gnome Warlock in Dun Morogh..... pssshh gnomes..
For the Horde!
And that a fatality case? Thats around $350! I know someone that got one.
-Adam
those were the cases on the computers awarded at WSVG. i got one :)
Shouldn't you be able to get 3D without a special monitor and some glasses? I forget how exactly it works but my physics teacher was saying something about polarized lenses and 3D or something. Anyway his point was with some video effect (which could be applied in your drivers like AA/AF im guessing) could be used with regular cheapo 3D goggles to do this right? It would probably be cooler/cheaper/more sane to just sell some nice 3D goggles with actual plastic lenses and like an app with them to do this. I mean i know i wouldn't use it all the time anyway so im definitely not going to buy a monitor like this.
Let me point you to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOKS8_QFooM
After I saw that I realised all these other monitors are crap.
"if you're itching to make a silly investment"?
Have you EVER seen a real Stereo 3D image? I guess not. Because, if you did, you would not be saying something very silly like this!
You see the world in stereo 3D, and the next step in making displays more realistic is to make them display in stereo 3D. Believe it, or not, that's the future of displays. And people like you, who can not think ahead, will be missing on this beauty. I'm indeed very sad for you.
GT