Play World of Warcraft in 3D Starting Today
21 01 2009By Joshua Koopferstock
I’m not a World of Warcraft player (anymore), but I think that today might be an important day for the future of 3D displays. The latest patch of World of Warcraft, played worldwide by over 11.5 million people, now supports stereoscopic 3D if you have the requisite hardware. This hardware includes: a pair of 3D shutter glasses, a 120 Hz, 22″ monitor from Samsung, and a USB infrared emitter to sync. This will run you $598. Then, of course, you have to have a good NVIDIA graphics card and be running Windows Vista.
So, don’t expect hundreds of millions of people to have things jumping out of their monitors tomorrow. Still, if you are a WoW player who is looking to get a new system, this price is reasonable since a good 22″ monitor will already cost you $200-$300. I got to try out this setup at the NVIDIA booth at CES (not WoW, but some other RPG), and it was pretty impressive. If I was getting a new gaming computer, I’d definitely spring for the extra few hundred bucks to be able to play in 3D. Especially since this system doesn’t work exclusively with World of Warcraft; NVIDIA has a list of over 100 games which it says play well in 3D.
One other thing to note: there is apparently a control on the infrafred emitter for you to toggle the “depth effect” which should be helpful if you are particularly headache-prone when viewing stereoscopic 3D content.
I want one! But I will be holding off for now, hoping that I can somehow turn my XBOX 360 into a 3D gaming station at a reasonable price sometime soon.
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Maybe I’m confusing things, but I thought one the biggest hurdles with these 3d technologies, is that they gave a large percentage of people headaches or caused disorientation after a short while?
From what I’ve seen and heard, the headache factor depends on the displays and the content. If the content is produced badly and there is too much disparity between the two eyes, this can cause headaches over time. It seems like content producers are getting better, though, and I haven’t seen complaints about headaches from the new 3D movies. I saw Bolt 3D a few months ago and I didn’t have a headache after that 90 minute movie.
I think there does need to be some research done on this, though. I know people that will not even go see these new 3D movies because they have bad memories of headaches in older 3D content. If for no other reason, some studies on this could go a ways to reducing the public’s skepticism, which would probably help the whole 3D TV/Film/Gaming industry move forward.
Wow..
I want WoW to be in 3d for me.. is it really good though? Is it as if you are on a 3d ride in a theme park, or is it cheaply done because of rendering capabilities?
Sell off some of your gold and send me $1000, and I’ll be happy to try it out and let you know
You cna spend $700 or more easily with the solution covered here. An alternative is to discover that these features are built in to many Nvidia cards and are included FREE in World of Warcraft. So really all you need is a how-to and some decent 3D glasses. The WoW3D package is everyhting most people need to experience true stereo video in World of Warcraft and it only costs $49.95!!! Why spend more?
Thank you for sharing this. I am a great fan of WoW. I’m a wow fan, i love wow and i have played it for 5 years now. For me the game got the best possible gameplay, with the deepest lore. I have tried other game, aion, df, war, lotro but they didnt catch me, and i’ve ALWAYS returned to wow. Also, I enjoy playing WoW and Getting Free WoW Game Card from the internet.
i have all accesarys for the 3d its a new system i got for christmas and works great in 3d but world of warcraft doesnt play in 3d is there a certain area or something that it only works in or do i need to download something from blizzard or computer company to do this let me know been playing warcraft for 2yrs now and would love it in 3d
WOW in 3D? That’s look interesting
[...] with nVidia, a pillars of the graphics industry, making PR waves with their launch of a stereo 3D gaming setup, the game developer community seems to be mostly keeping stereoscopic 3D at arm’s length. [...]