NVidia is happy to announce to day that the “professional” Version of their popular 3DVision system is now available for purchase.  Replacing their existing shutter glasses with RF-powered shutter glasses, it opens their use to massive auditoriums, eliminating line-of-sight issues and enables multiple displays to be used in a single area via careful pairing of each pair of glasses to a single display.

3D Vision Pro glasses and Quadro graphics provide an easy to use, robust solution for driving 3D visualizations on a range of display options, from a single desktop panel to massive, multi-projector power wall or CAVE.

This unique 3D solution combines 3D Vision Pro active shutter glasses and a robust radio-based control hub with 120Hz panels and projectors. Professionals can design, create and explore in stereoscopic 3D enabling collaborative workflows that dramatically speed up time to insight.

I’ve had the chance to try these at SC10 and SIGGRAPH2010, and they really are much better than the IR alternative.  They had 3 or 4 stations set up side by side, and the glasses were synced to only work with a single monitor.  That’s really not possible with IR glasses.

However, they’re a bit pricey.  Each pair of glasses will set you back $349 USD, and the RF Hub (a required part for each station) is $399, leading to deals like this PNY Hub+Glasses offer for $750.

via 3D Vision Pro for Professionals.