P3D Re: LC glasses and software

[Owen Pearn <owenp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

William Menchine wrote:
> ...
> I have been struggling to get stereo images up and running on my monitor.
> I bought a pair of Simuleyes glasses, but had problems with running the
> driver under windows NT.  I eventually got it to run in interlace mode but
> never did find any editing programs or viewers to help in producing the
> pairs, and more of less have given up on them.
> ...

i haven't personally used these:

  - Digital Light and Color's Picture Window ($39 ?) at
http://www.dl-c.com/
  - Softreat's 3D Stereo Image Factory ($69 ?) at
http://members.aol.com/threedr/
  - Chasm Graphics Sudden Depth 2 ($299 ?) at http://www.chasm.com/
 
> Which brings me to the question:
> Does anyone out there have a recommendation for an affordable, high
> quality system for viewing stereo on a PC?

check out christoph bungert's great stereoscopic hardware and software
review site at:

  http://www.stereo3d.com/3dhome.htm

also check out:

  http://www.classyglasses.com

> I have a Diamond Stealth II, S220 video card with the Rendition Verite
> V2X00 chip set and a Viewsonic PT770 monitor.  My monitor runs well at
> 85Hz.  It does not seem to support 120Hz. I'm running NT 4.0 on a Pentium
> Pro machine and have tons of memory.

dunno if this will help but Scitech's Display Doctor is great for video
card and monitor refresh tweaking at http://www.scitechsoft.com/. i hear
that vrex donated a bunch of shutter glass driver code to them.

personally, i'm hanging out for hardware page-flipped 1152*864 with 24
bit color at 120Hz (60Hz per eye). nvidia's riva tnt video card ($130)
does this. as far as i can see, only waiting on drivers. still need a
120hz monitor for best visual quality although 85hz (42 hz per eye)
might be okay in a dark room.

-o-


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