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     Michal Husak Rating: N/A |
I have found at www.opengl.org folowing link to stereographic product anouncment ... http://www.stereographics.com/html/se-pr.htm They speak about software enabling stereoscopy under Win 98 under moust graphic card shiped with the glasses. Does anybody have an idea what are they sepaking about ? Some new sort of drivers ? | ||
| Dick Shafer Rating: N/A |
Michal, This system from Stereographics works by drivers that convert the opengl commands to DirectX and this is how they can provide stereo for most any application running under Windows 98 using most any type of recent graphics card. Since Windows NT does not usually come with DirectX support, these drivers will not work with Windows NT. The shutter glasses will, however, if you have a "stereo-ready" graphics card and the appropriate stereo driver for it. | ||
| Olivier Benoit Rating: N/A |
Stereographics is using a licensed version of scitech gldirect 2. I tried it with a firegl pro + revelator on din3connector with no luck winme did crash almost every time i started a stereogl apps. After that i took a 32mb geforce and a pair of simuleyes out of retirement. With this combination i can almost any stereogl with no problems at 1024*768 32bits or 1280*1024 16bits stereogl(quad buffers) uses a lot off video memory The only trouble i had so far is winme crashing after exiting one application. The stereoapps seems to run faster under winnt with the firegl. Guess i will try to make an adaptator to use the revelator glasses with the simuleyes dongle. | ||
| Michal Husak Rating: N/A |
Oliver Benoit: Does it mean that the gldirect extend the normal OpenGl drivers under Win 98 or Win Me to modes enabling PFD_STERO in Pixelformatdescriptor ? Does it menat that stereoscopic aplications based on OpenGL stereoscopic output culd now run under Win 9x ? Colud you, please, try to run WebLabViewer available for free from WWW.MSI.COM or some of the GLUT based HW page flipping codes from my WWW (http://mysak.umbr.cas.cz/~husakm/Public/StereoOpenGL/StereoscopicOpenGLTutorial.htm) and let me know if it works ? | ||
| Olivier Benoit Rating: N/A |
Michal,gldirect is a wrapper translating opengl calls into directx calls. And yes! you can run glut based stereoapps fullscreen or windowed under Win Me.I tried the glut demos (skyfly,gears,ideas) that where ported to stereo some time ago by Dave Milici. more details later. P.S. As far as i know Scitech never officially released gldirect 2. I did try a 21days beta wich supported many stereo gears. I am testing the stereographics release wich only support stereographics hardware. | ||
| Olivier Benoit Rating: N/A |
Gldirect2 part 2 Gldirect 2 a mesa based opengl driver wich translate(some ?)opengl calls into directx calls. Some steroapps do not work correctly at first but after a few experiment with the resolution and color depth most apps run o.k. ( quad buffers and z -buffers eat a lot of video memory). All apps start after a few seconds (3 to 10 seconds,video mode changing?). I think the peoples at scitech did a real great job with this version of gldirect. If only they would realease gldirect2 officialy. Tested so far: glutdemos (stereo version by Dave Milici) all run o.k. exept newquad: gears.exe gears2.exe fractals.exe morph.exe steam.exe opengl-logo.exe newquad.exe (maybe glaux based) elsa gloria xl demos run o.k.: great demos as they give a lot of details about your open gl driver stereo.exe comand line based .obj stereoviewer stereosample.exe vmd 1.3,1.4,1.5 run o.k Weblabviewer should work o.k. as it is included on stereographics driver cd. suddendepth2.1 stereoviewer (opengl stereo quadbuffering) runs o.k. Michal jps viewer starts o.k. but only gives a blank screen non stereo opengl tested (in stereo) cosmo vrml viewer crashed win Me (iexplorer) glview stand alone vrml viewer works o.k. Next week i will try to test acad2000 in stereo. What is next? maybe 64 mb graphic card. | ||
| Michal Husak Rating: N/A |
 . My stereoviewer gives black screen . It is probably becouse it activate OpenGL via custom made module for Visual Basic and not throw C . Could you, please, let me know, where is it possible to obtained the Dave Milici modified GLUT stereo demos ? | ||
| Olivier Benoit Rating: N/A |
Michal ,i think you are interested in the source code of the stereo demos. The easyest way to obtain it is to mail Dave Milici. This is the u.r.l. from his site. http://www.wenet.net/~ironic/ |
