3D Vision will stop receiving Nvidia support in April. The 3D glasses system was launched back in 2009, and it appears that the project is finally reaching its end. 3D Vision was used for gaming, and it created the appearance of physical depth.
Next month there will be another GeForce driver release, but this time it will be the last one. However, there will continue to be support for critical driver issues, but this will last only until April 2020. However, the updates will be for 418 instead of newer versions. It appears that this decision will affect other software as well. For instance, the 3D Vision Video Player app will only be available until the end of the year.
Nvidia released a statement in which it explained that support for 3D Vision was dropped in order to focus on more popular technology, such as virtual reality: “We have seen the industry and our user base move to newer forms of immersive experiences such as Virtual Reality, and are focusing our driver support on these newer technologies. We are proud to have supported 3D Vision for over ten years, which launched at CES way back in 2009.”
Nvidia is ending support for low-profile laptop GPUs, besides 3D Vision
3D Vision support is not the only one finished by Nvidia. It appears that the company will also stop supporting laptops powered by a Kepler-series GPU.
“Game Ready driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available for systems utilizing mobile Maxwell, Pascal, and Turing-series GPUs for notebooks, effective April 2019,” Nvidia explained in a document.
Here is the list of GeForce Notebook GPUs based on Kepler architecture:
- NVIDIA GeForce 710A
- NVIDIA GeForce 810M
- NVIDIA GeForce 820M
- NVIDIA GeForce 825M
- NVIDIA GeForce 910M
- NVIDIA GeForce 920M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 645M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M
- NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
Dorothy has been a journalist for ten years and has been working with the Tech News Watch staff since the beginning of the news site. Her main contribution to Tech News Watch are mobile, IT and science news, with a focus on software updates and great outer space discoveries.
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