iZ3D, a new LCD monitor manufacturing company based in San Diego, announced the launch of a monitor designed for gamers. Featuring an impressive 22 inch widescreed, the iZ3D gaming monitor comes with a serious price tag of almost $1000, but when looking for the best in class image quality and high desktop real estate, such a high price is only to be expected, right?

According to the manufacturing company, iZ3D, the new gaming LCD display features unparallel image depth and offers a high quality gaming experience. The hardware system is coupled with custom built drivers for the best possible image crispness and quality that is further expended by a pair of passive polarized glasses in order to accurately reproduce the 3D sensation of images that are sinking into the display and extending out of it.

The new gaming monitor allows for resolutions up to 1,680 by 1,050 pixels, fast 5ms response times and wide viewing angles of 170 degrees, as well as a 600:1 contrast ratio. Following the graphics industry trends closely, iZ3D included a dual DVI /VGA input solution that is able to connect the monitor to a dual-output video card. Its custom built drivers are compatible with the latest graphics cards like the Nvidia centered GeForce 8 series or the professional ATI's FireGL V3600 workstation graphics card and because of its high price tag and high end features, this LCD display is not one to be associated with a budget gaming machine that currently can be purchased for a few hundred dollars.

The drivers that unleash the real power of the iZ3D 22 inch LCD gaming monitor are specially optimized for use with Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad central processing units and they offer extended support for graphics APIs like DirectX 8 and 9 that are found in Microsoft's operating systems like Windows XP and Vista. According to the manufacturing company that is cited by the news site digitaltrends[http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/14003/iz3d_ships_22-inch_3d_gaming_monitor], the monitor is designed to be used over extended periods of time without eyestrain, disorientation, or headaches as well for standard 2D computing tasks such as office applications and the like. "More content is being produced in 3D," said Thomas Striegler, chief executive officer of Neurok Optics. "All popular games and many new movies are now created in 3D; most viewers are unable to see the game or movie as it is meant to be seen in 3D."