ATI’s Open Stereo 3D standard

18th March, 2010 by adina
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In San Francisco, at the Game Developers Conference, ATI’s owner AMD has given some extra details on the Open Stereo 3D Initiative. The company will have a partnership with some other companies in order to produce stereoscopic 3D solutions and also speed up the adoption and lowering the cost of hardware. These solutions also refer to a 3D-enabled ATI Eyefinity technology for computers 120Hz 3D-ready displays, as well as notebooks, active shutter glasses and passive polarized ones.

ATI has promised stereoscopic 3D support for DirectX 9, 10 and 11, quad-buffered OpenGL and also Blu-ray media. For 3D gaming middleware, ATI seems to have partnered with DDD and iZ3D, in order to implement this technology. The company is also partner with ArcSoft and CyberLink for Blu-ray 3D support on Windows-running computers.

It is also rumored that ATI, the graphics chip designer, is currently planning some standards to help improve compatibility with the existing hardware and also help determine other hardware manufacturers to adopt this standard.

It is yet unknown when ATI’s Stereo 3D hardware will be released. Despite this, there have been some hints indicating that hardware will start shipping this summer.


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