Nvidia Ends 3D Vision And Mobile Kepler Support
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stereoman
Noisiv
H83
I love how companies promote certain features, telling buyers that those features are amazing and going to change everything and then drop them after a certain time... The wonders of being an early adopter...
So any bets about the next fade/feature that itยดs going to disappear? VR maybe???
Astyanax
Sounds like nvidia knows that microsoft are expanding on the DXGI Stereo API to me.
Noisiv
schmidtbag
Noisiv
so what are the alternatives, that are better, more open, more successful and with bigger market penetration than those mentioned:
CUDA, OPTIMUS, MXM, PhysX
as for AI/deep/machine learning Nvidia has only one strategy: Full speed ahead. If they fail, they fail.
Compare that to AMD which came late, but eventually said: we're in. But in reality they did nothing.
Then later Raja said: We made a mistake, but now we're really in. Our competition has been bungling (??) (a total wtf moment)
No wonder they they are still far behind.
holler
Not surprised, Nvidia is the EA of hardware companies, Physx and SLI both run into ground. buy up competing tech to retain Nvidipoly, stagnate the technology, then say we are dropping the tech because "no one uses it". No one uses it because they never reiterated it or attempted to improve it...
schmidtbag
Denial
Fox2232
warlord
sideeffect
I thought 3D blu ray playback in Windows depended on 3D vision being installed for Nvidia cards. So this will mean remove that functionality?
fry178
as of 419.35 driver 3D is still there, not sure why hilbert wrote 418.
@Fox2232
glasses (to do 3D on tv/moni) are all running at 60Hz, even if the screen has 240 Hz..
VR sets are different, so far i dont know anyone that would drop higher res/FOV for higher refresh rate.
i do have a problem with 60Hz flicker, be it a plasma or (active) 3D glasses, yet no problems with VR running at same rate.
robbo247
I also have an Sa950d which has 4 different 3d modes but they are hardware within the monitor,this isnt nvidia 3d vision ,that requires extra hardware that doesnt come with the monitor itself,i do like the solid 120hz when you turn off 3d though..
clamatac
disappointing
I do not use it a lot, but sometimes I use it for 3D movies in the living room
Fox2232
Noisiv
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=339056
"I would not consider MXM a success"... lel
"Optimus was good but underwhelming" ... ... eh.. what? ..."was"?
Hey, even if underwhelming or "not-a-success", at least we agree that CUDA, OPTIMUS, MXM and PhysX are the industry leading solutions ๐
I give you this much: MXM was never a proprietary solution about which you were ranting originally.
But IMHO even if everything else failed, it's hard to be against proprietary as a general rule, when CUDA which was their biggest bet is still looking good.
Small bets you can lose, don't lose BIG ones.
General rule is more like:
If it's disruptive enough and you can fend off the competition - go proprietary. If not - release it for everyone to use.
Sure it's more nuanced than that, like for example you can insist on your meh solution and bleed the competition, but I am armchairing this enough as it is, so I'll stop right there ๐
Of course AMD GPUs can and they are using it. It's an industry standard developed by Nvidia.
schmidtbag
user1
I guess that spells the offical end to the "3D" tv / monitor fad. doesn't make much sense with vr around I suppose
I wouldn't say so, the maintence burden of GCN is far lower than VLIW, Much of the driver code is shared across all GCN variations. I would say there is a decent chance nothing gcn will be "dropped" for a while, maybe even until gcn is replaced completely, There isn't much reason too until then.