It looks like Nvidia is more than just a hardware supplier for Google’s Honeycomb tablets, where we see almost all Honeycomb tablets and even a number of dual-core Android phones running on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 SOC. Nvidia are now also a partner of YouTube, which is under Google, and what are they teaming up for? 3D!!!

Nvidia and YouTube made a big announcement today that promises to bring stereoscopic 3D YouTube videos to NVIDIA 3D Vision PCs and notebooks, running Firefox 4. Yup, now it’s Nvidia + YouTube + Firefox 4 = 3D videos!

If you’re rocking an NVIDIA GeForce GPU-equipped machine, sporting driver release 275 or later, a 3D Vision monitor, notebook, projector, or DLP HDTV, and Firefox 4 with streaming HTML5, you’ve got access to all the 3D goodness YouTube has to offer — given you’re not trying to access content via a standard YouTube channel, as the outfit’s HTML5 support is still limited. Sounds like a handful of things that you’ll need, but well that’s actually not a lot.

Any Nvidia cards starting from the GeForce 400 Series, with the drive version 275 or newer would do. Of course, let’s not forget that you’ll need a 3D Vision monitor (which usually also comes with an active shutter 3D glass), which is probably the pinched point of these entire 3D stunts. Firefox shouldn’t be a problem, right? RIGHT?!?

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