Nvidia 3D Vision Video Now Available Worldwide on YouTube
Users Can Easily Share and Enjoy High-quality, Stereoscopic 3D Videos on YouTube with Their Nvidia 3D Vision PCs
Nvidia today announced that YouTube is for the first time giving users the ability to view thousands of 3D videos in rich, high-quality stereoscopic 3D on their Nvidia 3D Vision PCs and notebooks when using the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
“We’re excited to introduce HTML5 and WebM support to the thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube,” said Jonathan Huang, 3D Product Manager at YouTube. “By embracing these open standards, Nvidia 3D Vision users now have a great way of experiencing YouTube’s library of 3D content.” This is great news for PC gamers that love to share video captures of gameplay highlights from their favorite PC games as they can do it now in full 3D, as well as the thousands of users with 3D cameras. This means that the expected 40 million 3D Vision-enabled PC users by 2015 will have a solid online community to share with.
Before today, YouTube users could only use red-blue anaglyph glasses or watch on select 3D TVs and monitors the approximately 6,000 3D videos currently available. Beginning today, with added 3D Vision support, users can now run YouTube videos on the potential 100 million 3D Vision-enabled PCs and laptops as well as GeForce-powered PCs running Nvidia’s 3DTV Play software hooked up to 3D TVs. Using video capture programs like Fraps, users can video capture 3D gameplay from a 3D Vision-enabled PC and upload it to YouTube for other 3D Vision-enabled gamers to view and enjoy.
This means that Youtube users can now use Firefox with 3D Vision to create a high-quality 3D video experience using HTML5 video according to Jay Sullivan, VP of Products at Mozilla. “3D Vision from Nvidia is a great example of the rich, innovative experiences that are being built on top of the speed and graphics power that Firefox delivers to the Web.”
With a number of new, consumer 3D video cameras launched this year, YouTube’s support of Nvidia 3D Vision technology extends its existing commitment to 3D, enabling even more consumers and 3D enthusiasts to share their 3D videos online. With new 3D models now available from JVC, Sony and other leading vendors, users now have another easy way to capture and post high-quality 3D videos on YouTube, 3DVisionLive.com, or even their own websites by embedding the YouTube 3D video player.
To further showcase the new YouTube stereoscopic 3D video streaming capabilities and some of the latest professional and user-generated 3D YouTube videos, Nvidia is now hosting the best of the YouTube stereoscopic 3D videos on its 3D web community site at www.3DVisionLive.com/YT3D.
To view YouTube stereoscopic 3D videos an Nvidia 3D Vision-equipped PC or notebook and the latest Nvidia GeForce drivers (version 275 or above) are required, as well as Firefox (version 4 or above), which includes support for HTML5 video streaming. Users will also need to select the HTML5 viewing option when viewing a YouTube 3D video: http://www.youtube.com/select_3d_mode.
In addition, with Nvidia 3DTV Play software, users can connect their PCs to their 3D HDTVs to enjoy 3D YouTube videos in the comfort of their living rooms. And for more information about how to view YouTube videos with 3D Vision, please visit: www.3dvisionlive.com/3dv-html5-detection.
Nvidia 3D Vision technology is a combination of wireless active shutter glasses and advanced software. We have our own Nvidia 3D Vision Kit and we are currently exploring sixty (60!) of the over 525 Nvidia-tested PC games – from the latest 3D Vision ready games like Bulletstorm back to older games like Dreamfall, the Longest Journey and Vampire, The Masquerade: Bloodlines; and we are also exploring games that are untested like Never Winter Nights 2 and Black and White 2 with surprising results. Expect our evaluation to be published next month.
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Mark Poppin
ABT Senior Editor
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