On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 23:26 -0800, Warren DeLano wrote: Stereo 3D Users: > > I tested out the Samsung Syncmaster 2233RZ / NVIDIA 3D Vision bundle > today ($599 for a 120 Hz LCD display with one pair of glasses). > > Unfortunately, the 2233RZ display is clearly not yet a drop-in > replacement for your stereo-3D-capable CRT: The display is very nice, > and the stereo quality is excellent (as good as a CRT!), but only > provided that you: ...
------ A number of manufacturers are now testing stereoscopic "3D" products, but there is not at present a convergence on one technology. nVidia is using the 120Hz LCD shutter technology many crystallographers are familiar with from "Crystaleyes." Other companies are trying LCD monitors with passive polar or lenticular filters. The recent announcement that DisplayPort 1.2 will incorporate support for stereoscopid 3D in its spec is of relevance: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01/13/displayport_1dot2_basics/ DisplayPort, a relatively new interconnect for displays, uses a digital micropacket architecture which is substantially different and more modern than the analog or digital raster architecture of VGA, DVI and HDMI. It seems to me that it would have a distinct advantage in the arena of stereoscopic 3D. The graphics card could ship two screens worth of data to the monitor using the DisplayPort 1.2 spec, and leave it up to the monitor to manage the spatial and temporal arrangement of the pixels. In this way, support for stereo could be standardized for the graphics card hardware and driver, and display-specific decisions could be left to the monitor (or projector). Since the scientific visualization markets for Linux and Mac are much smaller than the Windows gaming market, any such standardization would be a good thing, because driver support for several different and incompatible stereo technologies is not realistic. If you have any contacts at the companies experimenting in stereo 3D graphic cards or monitors, you might bring this to their attention. Cheers, - ======================================================================= You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool. - Wonko the Sane ======================================================================= David J. Schuller modern man in a post-modern world MacCHESS, Cornell University schul...@cornell.edu
