I’m not really much of a gamer but two things caught my eye in the last few weeks on the gaming front. The first if Nvidia’s GeForce 3D vision which was reviewed in The Sunday Times this weekend. I actually saw this first hand a few weeks back courtesy of Quentin in the EBC at Dell UK and it’s very very impressive. Basically you put on the usual 3D glasses, install some software and connect up an infrared transmitter. There are a few caveats – your graphics card has to be compatible (check NVidia’s site) and a screen that supports 120Hz – the crucial part here that The Sunday Times missed is it has to be 120Hz input capable. There are two on the market in the UK  and you can buy one of them, a 22in Samsung model, with the 3D Vision kit for £399.

This gets you some very impressive 3D capability as it takes the 2D image being delivered by the game you’re playing (any game that is) and turns it in to 3D dimensions via two images – one for the left and one for the right eye. Both images are shown on a single screen alternately 120 times per second (hence the 120Hz requirement) and the glasses handle the delivery of the correct image to the correct eye. The result blew me away and though I’m not a gamer, if I was I’d have this kit as it works with many games already out there – NVidia lists over 200.

Next up is something that is speculation but may see me getting my XBOX 360 out of the basement more often.  Again in the Sunday Times, Chris Gourlay speculates that a 3D camera will be added to the XBOX to give it Wii like motion sensing capability but without the controller. In theory I could kick thin air in a virtual football game. Which would be so similar to my real football ability it would be amazing. As I mentioned, this one hasn’t been confirmed so we’ll have to wait and see. For now, the XBOX remains un-tethered.