 Well, I recently did a little video guide on how to install your Nvidia GeForce drivers. Today I'm going to be doing a quick little guide on how to set up Nvidia Stereoscopic 3D. So the first thing I'm going to do is adjust my white balance so you're actually going to be able to read dialog boxes that are on the screen. Aha, there we go. Okay, so the first thing we've got here is the Nvidia Control Panel. So we're going to go into the Nvidia Control Panel and we're going to discover something. When it loads, yep. We are going to discover that I do not actually have any options in here at all for 3D vision. Or stereoscopic 3D is what it would be under. So the default drivers from Nvidia actually do not include 3D vision drivers because, I mean, the reality of it is 99% of people don't need it. So you go to Nvidia.com, make sure you're always downloading the latest drivers for 3D vision because it is quite complicated and they are making updates as often as they can. So we select Windows 7 64-bit, the same procedure as with your driver installation. Search and download. It's a 300 megabyte full driver CD package. And since I've already downloaded it, I'm going to go ahead and just run it. So, yes, I would like to run that particular program. Go ahead and install the 3D vision driver. So we click next. I do not need the stereoscopic 3D viewer personally, but if you want it, by all means. Okay, so it only takes a little while to install actually. And then the configuration process is quite simple. First of all, you need to be wearing your 3D vision glasses. Next, you need to make sure that your IR emitter is plugged in via USB to the back of your computer so you should see a dim green light. I'm going to show you the difference. So, okay, go ahead and finish. Okay, yep. All right, so now we go into the Nvidia control panel again and there's going to be an option that we didn't have before. Oh, yeah, your glasses should also be charged. They charge via USB and the power button is here. So they should be charged and on. So we do not have an option for... Ah, here it is. Setup stereoscopic 3D. So go ahead and click there and then we're going to use the setup wizard because just clicking enable stereoscopic 3D might not configure everything properly. I don't know. I haven't tried. But the wizard takes only a couple minutes to run and walks you through some of the stuff that you need to know about 3D vision before you use it. So first of all, it gives you a little checklist for all of the things that you need to do for either 3D vision or 3D vision discover, which is a red, blue, and a......anaglyphic? Yeah, I think it's anaglyphic. Anyway, either way, it's a red, blue lens system rather than the active shutter glasses. So we go ahead and click next. Okay, this shows us how to connect the IR emitter, which I've already connected USB to the back of the computer. It's quite straightforward. Okay, we click next. And then you select the kind of gaming configuration that you'll be using. So single gaming computer in a room running 3D vision where there are not other consumer IR devices such as TV remote control at the same time. Okay, then you've got...if you've got other interfering things in the room, and then there's also multiple gaming computers in a LAN gaming environment all running 3D vision. So that's where there would be a ton of interference because the IR emitter is actually just blasting out IR signals that tell the shutter glasses when to shut off, when to blank the frame for one eye versus the other. Okay, so the next step... Now, yeah, you can't tell, but my glasses have actually gone quite dark. So this is the step where the glasses turn on. So I'm going to go ahead and let you look through the lens. You see how dark the screen is compared to there? It's because it's blocking out every other frame. The monitor is running at its full 120 Hz. It is a 3D vision ready monitor. I hope I mentioned that you need one of those. And so...press the on button...look for a steady green light on the glasses as well as on the IR emitter. So that's the bright green light that I didn't show you before. And there's no steady green light on those for whatever reason, but they're on. Trust me, they're on. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and put these back on. Okay, so now that that's all figured out, our glasses are on, the emitter is on, we are seeing that the image is dark. This one. So if I look close, you see, you can see both a green hexagon and a blue triangle, but I'm going to show you something interesting. If you look through the right lens, you see only a blue triangle. If you look through the left lens, you see only a green hexagon. So this is how 3D vision works. There, you can see both of them. So it's blocking every other frame. So on the monitor, every other frame is displaying that green hexagon and every other frame is displaying the blue triangle. So it's blocking it. So my left eye sees the left image, my right eye sees the right image. So for this part, it says, looks through the right eye with the left eye closed. So we do that. Okay, select what you see. We see a blue triangle. If you look through the left eye with the right eye closed, we see a green hexagon. So I'm going to go ahead and select those options. Blue triangle, green hexagon. Excellent. This one. Do I notice a flicker in your peripheral vision? Okay, this helps you configure it if you if you're in a European area where they have 50 Hertz power or a variety of other things. So no, I do not notice a flicker in my peripheral vision. I go ahead and click next. This is the last one. Verify that you are able to view stereoscopic 3D content. So here I'm going to show you something interesting, too. Select which of the following you see. One with a box popping out or one without a box popping out. Right now you see one without a box popping out. But let's see what happens if we do this. Yeah, that's not going to work. Okay, hold on. If I hold these far enough away, will I be able to see the box at all? This might be tricky. Hold on. Okay. So what I need is I need the glasses as close as possible to where the box pops out. No, this isn't going to work. Okay, well, you're going to have to trust me then. I can see it this way right here. Also, I have read and understand the health and safety information. This is one of the reasons I would definitely recommend running the wizard so that you can make sure that you read and understand that. I click next. And then that's it. I don't want to create a shortcut for that. I don't want to launch a slideshow of 3D games. Then you click finish. So once that's done, you can see that the Nvidia control panel has gone ahead and configured itself. You can change the maximum depth. You can also do that with the slider wheel on the back of the IR emitter when you're in game. So you don't have to change the maximum depth on the driver level. You can set your keyboard shortcuts and you can test stereoscopic 3D. It launches this horrible, horrible thing. Here, I'll show you. This is so old. Here. It's pretty funny, actually. It's the Nvidia logo popping out at you. It actually looks kind of funky on one monitor, but when you stretch this thing over three monitors, it's just horrible. This pink and yellow and black and gray thing. Anyway, 3D Vision is working on this system. Thank you for checking out my 3D Vision setup guide. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips. Oh yeah, last thing. Make sure you have a video card that supports 3D Vision. Here's your first hint. If you're running one of these, it does not support 3D Vision. ATI currently does not have a stereoscopic 3D technology. So you must be using an Nvidia card, 8800 series or higher, in order to take advantage of 3D Vision.