3D Playback

[Wictorian]

Can a regular monitor play a 3D video properly?

 

(I hope this is the right subforum)

[tikker]

Anaglyph (the red/cyan thing) yes, other stuff no. Modern 3D uses either active shutter glasses which need timing and a synchronisation signal, like Nvidia's 3D Vision (which needs a 3D Vision compatible monitor), or polarised light that is a different polarisation for each eye. In either case the hardware needs to be designed for it and support it. The shutter stuff is called "active" 3D and the polarisation stuff is "passive" 3D.

[Kilrah]

-> Moved to displays.

 

What's the question? Obviously a 2D monitor can't show a 3D video other than anaglyph, but maybe what you're asking is if you can play a 3D video in 2D? If yes there are tricks to do that. Depends on the file format though.