Possible Outlandish Features

[cjolley]

Do you suppose P would be powerful enough to produce real-time pseudo stereo vision images using the depth info in a normal 3d game?
Would the drivers get enough info from the game to do this?
Would it be mathematically possible?
I'm not a graphics programmer, so I have no idea.
But it sure would be neat.

Any other ideas?

chuck

PS Maybe it's been done already. Like I said, I have no idea.

[Maggi]

you don't need a Parhelia to do that ...

http://www.wicked3d.com

[GNEP]

Headcasting in full stereoscopic 3D anyone?

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Maggi
you don't need a Parhelia to do that ...

http://www.wicked3d.com

ummm.......
That's close to what I was talking about.
But:
1, Full color output on two heads to support two chanel LCD glasses, for instance.
2, Generic code so that it supports most any 3d standard program. (dx or gl)

chuck

[djroberts]

Arse Casting was the Most worthless feature Ever

More like full Endoscopic 3D.

That must have been one of those worthless features that Marketing people with no clue dreamt up.

dj

[Maggi]

Hi Chuck,

how could it be possible to look at two monitors simultaneously ?

cross-eyed ?

or should glasses take care of that ?

[cjolley]

Glasses, natch!
It might be economic with the way prices have dropped for small lcd screens.
Or drive a signal from a second head to control a pair of shutter glasses. The second head would tell the glasses how to synch.

These are just tech details.
The real question is: do the drivers get enough info in dx or gl to create the two images.

chuck

[cjolley]

PS Do the drivers get enough info without recoding the 3D game or program.

[Maggi]

Originally posted by cjolley
PS Do the drivers get enough info without recoding the 3D game or program.

afaik, that's Wicked3D's approach, ie. every 3D game consists of 3d vectors within a virtual 3d space and hence you could simply offset the camera's viewpoint sidewards while keeping the aim point fix. thus you would render two separated views/perspectives, one for each eye.

I think the Q3 engine support a command r_stereo which should work similar to gl_stereo and if it's supported in HW, performance penalty should be minimal.

[BroadbandBilly]

Guys,

I've seen a post on another forum where they were speculating about 26GB/s memory bandwidth!

Anyone (not under NDA) want to comment?

[GT98]

Originally posted by BroadbandBilly
Guys,

I've seen a post on another forum where they were speculating about 26GB/s memory bandwidth!

Anyone (not under NDA) want to comment?

People did some calutations on the bandwidth on other posts and it works out 19GB/s...still not too shabby

Scott

[cjolley]

OK, I'm not under an NDA.....

"Wow, that would be fast!"
How's that for a comment?

I still think the term "bandwidth" may not be completely appropos.

chuck

(it's that JC "solved" comment)

[mdhome]

Originally posted by BroadbandBilly
Guys,

I've seen a post on another forum where they were speculating about 26GB/s memory bandwidth!

Anyone (not under NDA) want to comment?

Which site is that?

MD

[Wombat]

Well that would be the speculated memory setup running at 400MHz rather than 300MHz. Haven't seen much 400MHz memory lately.

[rubank]

Chuck,
you´re not just a little funny,

you´re very funny

rubank