Sapphire Brings Us Multi-Monitor 3D Gaming

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So the rush, for better or worse, is on to inject a lot more 3D into gaming. But the folks out at Sapphire have brought us something just a little diabolical–warm up your speed dial because you’re going to want to call in sick for a couple days when multi-monitor 3D gaming hits.

Yes, that’s what you’re looking at in the pic above–three Zalman Trimon 3D monitors hooked together and all run through the same video card. Namely, a Sapphire card with ATI Eyefinity. Sapphire has managed to show with this pic that multi-monitor 3D gaming will not require expensive glasses or even multiple video cards (which actually made sense, each card processed feed for a different monitor), but rather, just one card and a whole lot of cash laid out in monitors.

Will this improve gaming? Is it a bad idea to start a trend requiring users to own three 3D monitors in a downed economy? Just one of these, after checking Google Shopping, shows prices anywhere between $250 and $430–so will users rush to spend almost as much on monitors alone as they would to buy a full desktop computer itself? A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand bucks? Not so sure on that one.