Gamecyte - Is Your Gaming Future in 3D - Part Four with DDD

[pixel67]

Can't believe we missed this story...then again I guess I can.

Hot on the heels of interviews with Nvidia, IZ3D, and Neil... Gamecyte has published part 4 with an interview with DDD VP Technical Applications, Jay Wiskerchen. Lot's of interesting developments at DDD. Hints of future development objectives on their game drivers, hints at a new pricing model, partnership directions, conversion chips and software in 3D HDTV's themselves instead of on PC's. Quite an objective interview...

http://www.gamecyte.com/is-your-gaming- ... -part-four

MTBS has interviewed quite a few folks in the past (Samsung, IZ3D, Nvidia, Mitsubishi, EA Games, etc), yet here is this small company building 3D Drivers that is literally right next door to Activision and 5 minutes away from EA and they haven't been spotlighted on this site one time. Seems like a missed opportunity to really "Advocate" collaboration between neighboring companies to me...

It's good to see these guys get some media attention. Nvidia and IZ3D aren't the only ones pioneering and contributing to S3D ya know...

[Neil]

Hi Pixel,

First, I think you are suggesting that MTBS is playing favorites.

The Gamecyte interview is something I helped arrange. This is the introduction email I sent to DDD for Gamecyte. Douglas is DDD's VP of licensing:

Hi Douglas!

It's Neil Schneider emailing you from Meant to be Seen (mtbs3D.com).

I'd like to introduce you Sean Hollister of Gamecyte (http://www.gamecyte.com). Sean has been doing a lot of interviews around the topic of stereoscopic 3D gaming, and I'd like to introduce the two of you with hopes that DDD can participate with this exciting subject matter.

Sean, Douglas Hunter is the VP of Licensing for DDD. I think you will find he is a credible interviewee, and if Douglas thinks someone else at his company would be a better fit, I'm sure he can connect you with the right people...

We also interviewed DDD at 3DFF, but there has been a complication with the video tapes, etc. We will have to wait and see what happens with that. I should point out we haven't seen the interviews with iZ3D either!

You are correct, though. It seems the companies that participate with MTBS do come across as the ones who are pioneering the industry - even the ones that are much smaller than DDD. We have repeatedly approached them on this, and it's up to them now.

Regards,
Neil

[yuriythebest]

good and interesting interview, thanks!

[koshien]

Thanks for sharing! Nice interview
Good job, Gamecyte!
Off-topic: I like how mtbs3d looks, nice update!

[pixel67]

Hi Neil,
I believe "We" missed this as it is 10 days old. We meaning the membership as that is where these articles were initially given visibility is by the posting members and not by site administration. I edited my original so that it is clearer.

Do I think MTBS plays favorites? Not necessarily but it is VERY easy to make this assumption. Too easy actually. Forum structure lends itself to effective knowledge transfer of sponsored solutions and reviews are only given on sponsored driver solutions even though there are many 3D Drivers on the market now. Examples include Vuzix, Wazabee, and DDD. These are all viable consumer choices yet very little attention has been given to them unless someone has bought their solutions without prior knowledge and posted their experiences in the general forums. Finding information about them here requires using the search feature which really does little to advocate knowledge transfer. I believe we are missing the boat a bit by not finding a way to advocate these solutions better and broaden everyones knowledge level, including my own, about all of the solutions in the marketplace. The 3D Market continues to grow, change, and get much more complex than it used to be and I believe this will continue which will in turn make this issue worse, not better. There have never been as many players in the market as there are today and more players = consumer confusion.

As far as the DDD interview is concerned, I am glad you reached out to them as that validates my point above. Perceptions sometimes don't match intentions, but perception is always king.

Cheers...

[cybereality]

Cool interview, thanks for posting.

[yuriythebest]

Do I think MTBS plays favorites?

I think it's nvidia that plays favourites

[Neil]

Hi Pixel,

Forum structure lends itself to effective knowledge transfer of sponsored solutions and reviews are only given on sponsored driver solutions even though there are many 3D Drivers on the market now. Examples include Vuzix, Wazabee, and DDD. These are all viable consumer choices yet very little attention has been given to them unless someone has bought their solutions without prior knowledge and posted their experiences in the general forums. Finding information about them here requires using the search feature which really does little to advocate knowledge transfer. I believe we are missing the boat a bit by not finding a way to advocate these solutions better and broaden everyones knowledge level, including my own, about all of the solutions in the marketplace. The 3D Market continues to grow, change, and get much more complex than it used to be and I believe this will continue which will in turn make this issue worse, not better. There have never been as many players in the market as there are today and more players = consumer confusion.

If we had the resources, we'd be more than happy to help DDD. Maybe you should talk to them and find out what their priorities are. Do you need some names? PM me, and I'll give you a list of names you can talk to. Until then, I'm sure they have a capable team of communications specialists.

Regards,
Neil

[martinlandau]

If we had the resources, we'd be more than happy to help

You didn't get that grant from billy g and stevie j yet? What is the hold up Neil, have you approached their foundations for grants yet? I know I read an interview that billy g said 10 million was enough for anyone and that was all he was leaving his kids so he has lots of money to give away still!

My last girlfriend said I didn't have the resources to support her lifestyle, she needed some more shoes and about a dozen more louis vitton handbags so she left me for some rich canadian in vancouver. Those resources, never enough in so many scenarios.

[Neil]

Not to go off topic, but have you ever seen the movie Brewster's Millions with Richard Pryer and John Candy?

Same idea, eh?

Regards,
Neil

[Okta]

The most interesting bit i read was DDD sugesting they are making an 'all in' gaming driver rather than their pay per game which will bring them into competion with IZ3D.

[pixel67]

I saw that as well. Very encouraging! I recently had an email exchange with Jay W and they seem very focused at the moment on their partnership with Samsung and the release of the SSG-1000 3D Accessory Pack. A new Universal driver (not game specific) seems like it would match up well with this strategy. He did mention to me that their R&D Team is working on a new release that will offer significant performance gains compared to previous drivers. Sounds like two very welcome improvements to me!

[martinlandau]

He did mention to me that their R&D Team is working on a new release that will offer significant performance gains compared to previous drivers. Sounds like two very welcome improvements to me!

Look at this crazy psychopath below who didn't take his morning haldol - or should I say he is just very excited about the future, yet he is the leader of one of the world's largest empires.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLw ... re=related

Steve Ballmer said developers, developers, developers, deelopers. My old digital logic design professor said it was usually faster to do things in hardware rather than emulate them in software with non-specialized cpus. Intel says not to worry about anything graphicswise because mutli cpus will fix all the world's woes. I know some programmers say parallel programming with multi cpu stuff is not intuitive and very hard for newcomers - how effectively are all these companies using intel's philosophy? It seems to me if they are dependent on say someone like Nvidia who is in a idealogical battle with Intel on how best to deliver the future, things are not so efficient and they aren't making use of those 8 cores in my workstation - where is the open source code where I can peak at the wizard of oz behind the curtain and see what philosophy and ideaology these developers are marching behind?

[Seb]

JW: Yes… beginning in January, Samsung is going to start selling their 3D plasma TVs with DDD’s chip. At that point, all of a sudden it’s going from “3D-ready” to “3D-friendly.”

Anyone have any more info on this? I want one!

[ssiu]

JW: Yes… beginning in January, Samsung is going to start selling their 3D plasma TVs with DDD’s chip. At that point, all of a sudden it’s going from “3D-ready” to “3D-friendly.”

Anyone have any more info on this? I want one!

Hopefully they'll announce during 2009 CES. And hopefully there will be a 1080p model this year. (Last year's 3D plasmas PN42A450 and PN50A450 are 1024x768 and 1366x768 respectively.)

[Seb]

Hopefully they'll announce during 2009 CES. And hopefully there will be a 1080p model this year. (Last year's 3D plasmas PN42A450 and PN50A450 are 1024x768 and 1366x768 respectively.)

Did some sleuthing on Google and it looks like there won't be a 3D 1080p plasma in '09 for North America at least. (I haven't checked the others due to lack of Rapidshare premium.) I'm still going to wait for CES, but it's not looking good. What's wrong with them?

Either that or this is a very elaborate hoax:

http://www.avforums.com/forums/plasma-t ... ineup.html