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3D without glasses, that sounds a bit like the technology developed (?)
by X3D Technology based in Jena (Germany).
In front of the LCD, they placed a foil with lots of small lenses and a
complicated picture has to be calculated for each frame shown! So, the
resolution is not too high in the end. Nice technology, but you need the
fastest Nvidia card around (expensive) and for each application (i.e.
program) you need to write (or at least modify) the graphics-driver. I
have seen it working under Windows-XP with Pymol (last year) and it
looked really good, at least from a distance. Not sure it will work
under Linux though.
And you did state correctly, good multi-sync monitors (that can handle
up to 160Hz) are becoming very, very rare these days!
I hope ours will last for some time until regular LCDs are good enough
to handle stereo (using shutter glasses!): the first active stereo LCD
projector is already on the market (called DepthQ).
- J. -
Dima Klenchin wrote:
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Cant resist the urge to point out there are stereo solutions on the
market
that do not need shutter glasses, don't need graphics cards with
stereo DIN
plugs and work with any dual head graphics card that supports OpenGL.
This info is, of course, of absolutely no use to those of you stuck with
shutter-glass systems, but something to keep in mind for your next HW
upgrade! Also, keep in mind the day will come (some of us believe in the
near-future) when CRTs are no longer available - what will you use then?
I'm biased of course and would say look first at our technology as
the only
commercially available zero cross-talk, UXGA resolution, glasses-free
solution on the market.
Any comments on Philips' "multiview lenticular displays"? Their huge
42" models are now commercially available in the USA and their 20"
monitors are supposed to start selling October this year:
http://www.business-sites.philips.com/assets/Downloadablefile//2006-08-17--20-3D2C03-leaflet-13644.pdf
http://www.business-sites.philips.com/3dsolutions/products/3dscreens/index.html
http://www.actkern.info/index.php?id=339
Would this sort of thing work with 3D in Coot and Pymol?
Dima
