Stereo video on the net

[P3D Jonathan Gross <catalyst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> I wasn't paying too much attention to the image formatting debate on the
>> list awhile back so maybe I missed something... 
>> But is there any protocol for loading a field-sequential video into a 
>> net-accessable file so folks can download and view with shutter glasses?

> Yep, you missed something. The JPS format is designed specifically to
> provide stereo images in any format you want, from the simplest anaglyph
> to field-sequential.

One person's video may be another person's still images.  JPS files hold
still stereo images in digital form. A JPS file is actually a standard
JPEG file in which some reserved space in the file header is used to
describe the file as a stereo image pair. This approach is either
clever, or foolish, (or a little of both) depending on your perspective
on a large cluster of related issues.

To get a first hand description of the capabilities of JPS, e-mail
	jon siragusa <siragusa@xxxxxxxxx>
and ask him for a copy of the "General Purpose Stereoscopic Data
Descriptor" (sterdesc.doc).  I would offer to re-distribute copies,
however, the document is copyrighted exclusively to VRex.

Jon Gross


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