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a bit of behind-the-scenes look at the triple projector 3d vision surround setup that I've got going here now a lot of you guys in the NCIX tech tips episode I produced recently complained with where I did the 5 way 5 by 1 Eyefinity setup we're like oh well there's too many bezels well here's your solution see right now you can see the geta the setup is very ghetto like I've got racks with projectors on them and then I've got basically a big white wall that I'm using to to fire the mat so I'm still going through the driver set up getting nvidia 3d vision surround going but I mean just for scale those are speakers that's a printer box so that's that's a like a laser printer box that's how big this display is so uh stay tuned you guys I'm gonna do sort of a few more in-progress shots probably here and then I'll upload this you can see the screens are in a line just right yet I'm still got some work to do but we're getting there got my g25 racing wheel over here somewhere yeah got that going gonna be good alright guys here's another in progress so you can see I still don't really have the screens lined up here's my test rig though and here we go if I go into the Nvidia control panel you can see man I gotta zoom in so far just to even see the screen I've got the span displays widths around I had to configure it so that they'd be in the right order but I have managed to get that figured out so my desktop starts on the Left moves to the right and then ends at the very far right okay so that's done what I have also managed to get set up is the screen resolution so the resolution we're running at is 3840 by 720 so this is basically three times 720p now 720p is not a big resolution in terms of requiring graphics horsepower to back it up but 3x 720p basically works out to 2.7 million pixels so if we compare that to some other common resolutions like let's take 1920 by 1080 which is only about two million pixels basically or let's take like 2560 by 1600 so that's about four million pixels so we're somewhere in between running 1080p and running like HD plus saw a 30-inch monitor resolution here in terms of the horsepower required now bear in mind - but we are going to be running nvidia 3d vision here's my 3d vision glasses so that adds some extra burden on the graphics card as well so you actually are running at an HD plus resolution with 3d vision so you're going to need some serious horsepower such as say for example a GTX 590 which supports 3d visions surround natively on a single card and yeah so I'm gonna just do some more work here and then I'll be able to break out like the flight stick and the and the wheel so almost ready to go I got just gonna line things up a little bit better as well cuz that'll that'll be kind of distracting during games so I've pretty much got it set up at this point there's one of my co-workers playing around in Battlefield Bad Company 2 so look look there's a person for scale that's how big that images evidently he's also not very good at Bad Company 2 because he's like dying already use your grenade launcher mouse wheel down there you go fire that at the truck there you go anyway so yeah yeah we're getting pretty close to being able to shoot this episode of tech tips and what I may actually do is wait till it gets a little bit darker outside because this isn't really an ideal room for a projector setup but thank you for checking out my preview of the 3d vision surround projector episode of NCIS tech tips that will be coming very shortly featuring the GeForce GTX 590 don't forget to subscribe to line the tech tips for more ridiculous videos just like this