Most of the hoopla lately has been about tablet PCs. I suspect that is a knee jerk reaction by PC manufacturers after the incredibly successful launch of the iPad.

But NVIDIA decided to strut its stuff about 3D technology at Computex 2010. Since there was just as much hoopla about the movie Avatar, NVIDIA decided to present some of its plans about how to bring the 3D experience home to the average PC user. So  they are pushing the NEW 3D PC.

A 3D PC is defined as one that has built in capability to display video for use with 3D Active Shutter glasses and has a minimum of a 120HZ 3D-capable display. Here is the first problem, most monitors are not capable of running at 120Hz. I only know of two at the moment, the Samsung Sync Master 2233RZ and the Viewsonic FuHzion VX2265wm.

However, MSI has introduced the 3D AIO at CeBIT which it claims can support 3D viewing using the following hardware:

1. A Radeon HD 5730 graphics card using Catalyst 10.3 drivers
2. 3D active-shutter glasses like the NVIDIA version pictured above
3. An Intel Core i3 chip
4. 4GB RAM
5. 1TB hard-drive
6. A Blu-ray drive
7. TV tuner
8. Windows 7 Premium operating system

Conclusion

Asus has jumped on the 3D bandwagon and I expect we will have 3D capable motherboards available in the near future. Toshiba is working on a 3D capable notebook. It appears the 3D era is upon us. Now if only someone will develop good content in 3D format, this new technology may truly take off.