We've been busy working on something that will be announced in the next day or
two, so that part of the FAQ has not been updated yet. As noted, it does
work under NT with some accel. cards. The reason it doesn't work on some
cards (like the FireGL 1000 Pro), is that the card doesn't kick into stereo in
a standard way thorugh OpenGL (or DirectX).
Steve
Bob Gray wrote:
> I was looking into buying some 3D glasses to get into stereo viewing aspects
> of Java 3D. then I read FAQ
>
> http://tintoy.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~srp/java3d/howto.html#stereo
>
> -------------------
> 18. ...use stereo glasses with my programs?
>
> First, be aware that in the current release of Java 3D, stereo is only
> supported on Sun workstations. PCs with stereo hardware will be able to use
> stereo in the next release.
>
> -------------------
>
> Is this right? It wont work today with Windows NT?
>
> So when is the next release due out?
>
> And while I am on the subject of next release...
>
> I don't understand why we have to wait for a "next release" to have bug
> problems fixed. Why doesn't the Sun development team release "patches" as
> they solve each bug, rather than saving up all bug fixes into a next
> release.... I would love to get bug fixes as soon as the bug is fixed
> rather than waiting another 6 months or so for the next release.
>
> Bob Gray
>
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