Nvidia will be bringing the 3D PCs out of the box in desktop, notebook range to the consumers, the prices of which will start at around $1,500 which is about half of the price of 3D TV in market. As per Nvidia – “In 3D mode, each eye receives the full resolution of the display for the highest possible image quality for text and objects“.

At Computex 2010 held at Taiwan, Jerry Shen, CEO of ASUS, demonstrated some ready-to-go 3D PCs in desktop, notebook and all-in-one varieties

Microsoft also announced that Silverlight, a web content development platform now supports streaming 3D content over the web to NVIDIA 3D Vision-equipped PCs. NVIDIA and Microsoft demonstrated the world’s first high definition 3D music video ‘We Are The World’ in 3D streamed over the internet.

NVIDIA’s  game developers worked on more than 425 PC games to work with NVIDIA’s 3D Vision technology. Sony and Fujifilm will be bringing 3D digital cameras to market where consumers can take 3D photos and view as 3D on their 3D PC. A 3D PC can view the Web in 3D including live streaming of 3D video, watch Blu-ray 3D movies and also Cyberlink will be releasing a version of their software player that will support playback of Blu-ray movies in 3D.

As per Nvidia, a 3D PC must have, by definition, the following minimum requirements:

• A pair of 3D active-shutter glasses.
• A 120Hz 3D-capable display which can be a desktop LCD monitor, a 3D projector, a 3D TV, or a laptop with an integrated 3D-capable LCD.
• A discrete GPU such as the latest GeForce GPU’s from NVIDIA that are designed to deliver HD content to a 3D display.

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Adobe Flex 3 created applications don’t necessarily have to run on internet. A free open source cross platform framework to create rich internet applications of web 2.0 traits using HTML/ CSS, AJAX, Flash and Flex 3 itself will let developers to engage internet audience more in their products while they are offline.

Adobe along with Microsoft and Google are focussing on new generation of applications that work across operating systems and both inside and outside the browser, bridging the gap between the web and the personal computer. Google’s Gear plug-in while Microsoft’s Silverlight are branches of same tree to stretch the web 2.0 to users desktop.

Microsoft’s Silverlight is also a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET based rich interactive applications for the Web. Its Free beta release which will expires on August 2007 will let users create applications with all that microsoft technologies in support and develop mash-ups, interactive applications by incorporating data and services from anywhere on the web. Silverlight has flexibility of programming like AJAX, Visual Basic .NET, C#, Python, and Ruby.

Installations – Adobe Flex 3 | Google Gears | Microsoft Silverlight

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