BANGALORE, INDIA: Have you ever thought how interesting it could be if you could play your presentation or show a demo of your product in 3D? It not only sounds fascinating, but also adds to your productivity.

For instance, how about explaining those complicated engineering drawings in 3D so that your viewers can see that extra dimension and understand it quickly? How about playing the virtual tour video of your new office building which your architect has just handed over to you in 3D? Or watching ?3 Idiots? movie DVD (well, not available in the market yet) in 3D?

We used a fully functional 14-day trial version of TriDef application to achieve this. It can be downloaded from the link given in the box. You can get the full version of the application from the same site for around Rs 2400. This application lets you play any standard 2D video, image or even play games in full 3D. It also lets you use Google Earth in 3D.

You can select the 3D capability of your hardware and utilize it; or else rely on the standard two-color anaglyphic glasses. We talked about presentations in 3D, but this software doesn’t natively support this functionality. Instead, we found this out when we converted our slides to PNG and JPEG images and played them using this software. Let’s see how you can use some of its features.

After installing the software, run the display setup from the Utilities folder. The software will try to detect your 3D hardware and if it doesn’t find one, it will show this screen.