Re: [photo-3d] Re: best shutter glasses

[Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian David Phillips writes:

>I was under the impression that the ELSA glasses only worked with their
>video graphics card.  When I've seen them demoed here, they look great
>but having to use their video card made them unappealing to me.

The Elsa glasses work with other non-Elsa graphics boards also. There is
a list somewhere that lists the graphic cards it works with. The glasses
are connected between the videocard and monitor. The 3-D is excellent
with games, when it's working. The problem is the Elsa uses an interrupt
to trigger the LCS and this causes potential problems with other devises.
I think the glasses that take the sync pulse directly from the videocard
offer the best possible solution. Why haven't they done this sooner?

As for viewing graphical images, the viewer it comes with is awful. There
is no flickering but the image has to be in the correct aspect ratio for
it to display properly and even then, it will default to a lower resolution
mode, as far as I can tell.

Needless to say I'm still looking for the ideal LCS type glasses. I'm
sure they are out there. Someone mentioned the VR-Joy. Another promising
one is the Metrabyte (spelling?) which I hear got out of the 3-D business?
Also the ASUS glasses and videoboards look very interesting. The ASUS 
web page mentions that you can watch flickerless NTSC video with their
board and glasses!

It looks like LCS 3-D is almost here (I mean trouble free LCS 3-D!)!

P.S. I don't play many computer games but nevertheless, in stereoscopic
3-D they are awesome! The beauty is that most games will run in stereoscopic
3-D if they are written in Direct3D (most are) or another variant and
using wrappers. There was a web site where it mentions you can even play
Nintendo or Playstation games in stereo on a computer since the emulators
use Direct3D. Sadly most flight sim games (my favorite) are not supported.
I found one nice one (demo available on the net) that did worked called
Hang Sim.

Gabriel