Hi Tobias, You most definitely do not need a built-in emitter for your system to work. Instead you use the little emitter "temple" that comes with a set of the glasses <http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-3d-vision2-wireless-glasses-kit-us.html>. In Windows, the emitter can be driven via USB, but for Linux it will need to be driven by the 3-pin stereo connector that plugs directly into your Quadro-class graphics card. You can just place the emitter anywhere that the glasses have a clear line of sight to while you are wearing them. I usually pick directly underneath the screen.
The ASUS VG278HE <http://www.amazon.com/VG278HE-27-Inch-Screen-LED-lit-Monitor/dp/B00906HM6K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420732033&sr=8-1&keywords=ASUS+VG278HE> (without built in emitter) is in stock over at Amazon. Cheers, Jim On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Tobias Beck <tobiasb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am looking again at 3D monitors. Last year I bought for my old lab the > VG278HR and the PNY K600, as advised by the CCP4BB. (The 3D test images > from Nvidia were running fine under Windows, but I did not get around to > finish the set up with pymol and coot under linux.) > > Now at a new place, I looked at available monitors again (that have the > built-in emitter since I want to use the K600 graphics card) and noticed > that the VG278HR is out of stock. The VG278H, which seems to be a very > similar model, is also out of stock. > > This page > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-displays.html > > also lists the Acer HN274H as a 27'' monitor with built-in emitter, but > that seems to be out of stock as well (I would prefer not to buy a > refurbished or used one). The monitors mentioned above are also listed > here: > > http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/ccp4wiki/index.php/Stereo > > (The smaller BenQ XL2420TX listed there is also out of stock). > > Has anybody ordered a 3D monitor with built-in emitter recently or could > provide me with a current list of 27'' monitors with built-in emitters? I > checked with Nvidia via their chat support, but they did not have an > updated list, just provided links to the manufacturers' homepages. > > If monitors with built-in emitters are not available anymore, I need to > buy a different graphics card in order for the setup to work with linux, > right? > > Thank you and best wishes, Tobias. > > -- > ___________________________________________ > > Dr. Tobias Beck > - group leader - > RWTH Aachen University > Institute of Inorganic Chemistry > Landoltweg 1, office: 304N > 52056 Aachen, Germany > phone: +49-241-80-90057 > fax: +49-241-80-99003 > ___________________________________________ > > -- Jim Fairman, Ph D. Group Leader I - Crystallography Beryllium <http://www.be4.com> Tel: 206-780-8914 Cell: 240-479-6575 E-mail: fairman....@gmail.com jfair...@embios.com
