On Thursday 10 July 2003 14:41, Lee Elliott wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2003 22:38, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > From the FWIW department ... > > > > Today I was able to get FlightGear running on a 5 projector wrap > > around display. > > > > Here is a picture of the facility (when it was running other > > software): > > > > > > http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/Facilities/simpics/screenandcar_small.jpg > > > > There are 5 forward channels each covering 42 degrees fov for a total > > of 210 degrees field of view. Each projector is running at 1024x768 > > resolution so this is a 6020x768 pixel display system. > > > > Our once hot PC hardware is now pretty sub-par in terms of performance > > so I was only getting 20-30 fps (sometimes less) which was > > disappointing. This subpar performance leads to jitters and tiny > > mismatches between adjacent screens which largely goes away if you can > > run all the channels locked at 60hz. (Oh, and at the moment there is > > really no possibility of removing the annoying vehicle in the middle > > and replacing it with a C172 cockpit.) :-P > > > > Even so, it was pretty neat to fly in such an immersive environment. > > I initially started in the Wright Flyer and it was fun to look out > > through the wings and struts and wires surrounding me. > > > > I might try again and use a laptop inside the vehicle for flight > > controls (rather than sitting at the console on the perimeter of the > > sim.) We also have a rear channel which I could fire up as well. > > > > So that's it, nothing more to see here, please move along ... I just > > thought I'd mention it in case someone finds it moderately interesting > > or in case anyone has been wondering about setting up something > > similar themselves. > > > > Regards, > > > > Curt. > > -- > > Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project > > Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org > > Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org > > I wanna go:) > > LeeE >
I wanna go too! I'll even sit in the back! WillyB > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
