Re: Simuleyes cordless LCD glasses display card

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Tue, 03 Dec 96 13:13:15 GMT
>From: P3D  <Alan.Hancock@xxxxxx>
>To: photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Simuleyes cordless LCD glasses display card
>Message-ID: <9611038496.AA849647656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>    A European company called Miro have just released a PC 3D accelerator
>    SVGA graphics card (almost as fast as Matrox Mystique) with a built in
>    infra red interface for Simuleyes cordless LCD glasses (supplied in
>    package) and a composite video output channel (PC->TV). A version with a
>    sound chip with 4 channel surround sound capability will also be
>    available. The price of basic model is about US $290, and includes
>    special enhanced versions of true stereoscopic games with 3D rendering
>    such as Descent II, and hopefully could be used for other 3D graphics
>    visualization and Virtual Reality applications.
>

According to the Stereographics Corp. website, most display video cards are
adding similar features by next year. What other options does the Miro
offer? Does it have 4MB VRAM? Is it available in the US?

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/
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