Screenshots from 3D shutter glasses in action (260KB)

[Maggi]

Hi Guys'n'Girls,

a few people wanted to know how it would like when 3D glasses are rendering 3D scenes, so here we go ...

This is the actual screenshot, showing two different perspectives (left and right eye's view) of the actual 3D scene, rendered on top of each other



and this is the result of the VGA pass-through adapter, combining both pictures and put into one interlaced picture where even and odd fields are separated to either the left ot right eye by the synced shutter glasses



Hope that clears it up ...

Cheers,
Maggi

[Brian R.]

You know if you turn your monitor (or head) sideways and cross your eyes to overlap the top two images, you get the 3-D effect without the glasses.

[tuco]

or you could just drink 8 bottles of brown really quickly.

[Brian R.]

You know, that's an interesting application of the dual-head cards. Use two monitors, both having different images on them, corresponding to the left and right eye views. Wearing the appropriate lenses to overlap the images would give you 3-D. It might be superior to the shutter glasses type of 3-D display.

This type of representation is common in books where a 3-D presentation is necessary.

Matrox...are you there?


[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 11 September 2000).]

[Greebe]

side by side screen shot Kasparov

do as Brian says

(note: is 1280 wide)


Maggi, remeber that email a few weeks ago? LOL

[Maggi]

LOL, Greebe ... I sure do ...

[xortam]

Gee Brian, where have I seen that before?

Take the concept of 3D glasses and implement it with two monitors via DualHead.

[Brian R.]

If there's a similar concept in that topic, I'll never take the time to find it.

Don't forget, I'm not talking about shutter glasses, which are the only type available at this time. I'm talking about a form of standard lenses to aim your vision to the correct point to overlap the two images.

Oh, I've found it. I don't know what implementation you were thinking of. Anyway, I'm not interested in intelectual property rights anyway...

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 12 September 2000).]

[xortam]

Proof is left to the student.
I thought of that concept after I read some NDA recipient commenting that the G800 will show that Matrox is no slouch when it comes to 3D. That and the then ongoing discussion about 3D glasses led to that "revelation". It would be interesting to see if Matrox could exploit the DH capability in such a way though I would never benefit from it: left eye is very weak ... 3D tricks never work for me. Maybe Matrox will get wind of this idea and do something with it? Should we work together and patent something?

[Brian R.]

Xortam - I'll bet the concept is patented. It's too obvious if I thought of it.

Why don't you E-mail me bdrogers@bellatlantic.net
and we'll talk about it.

[xortam]

Say, Brian ... don't start taking me too seriously now. Developing this concept to a patentable point sounds too much like work to me. I'm not that ambitious any more.

[Wombat]

If it's "too obvious", then it can't be patented. The hardware to do it though.....