{"id":269,"date":"2006-11-05T11:46:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T11:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/wblog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2007-02-14T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T11:51:19","slug":"nvidia-3d-stereo-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/05\/nvidia-3d-stereo-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"NVidia 3D Stereo drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NVidia 3D Stereo drivers<\/a> allow users of any NVidia GPU to have their OpenGL and DirectX games in “real” stereoscopic 3D on their screen.<\/p>\n

You can have active, passive, anaglyph stereo, as well as horizontal\/vertical interleaved, white\/blue line code glasses, even Philips and Sharp autostereoscopic displays!<\/p>\n

Here’s the NVidia 3D Stereo User’s Guide<\/a>.
\nOne drawback, but not from the drivers, is that due to hardware limitations LCD monitors can’t be used for active stereo at the moment<\/a>.
\nYou can use the active stereo on a CRT monitor, or with some cheap DLP projectors<\/a> (I mean in the “cheap” price range).<\/p>\n

Also you have to be in fullscreen.<\/p>\n

I’ve been playing WoW for about one hour with my eDimensional<\/a> glasses and it’s really cool !!
\nMy eyes weren’t tired, I had a good depth feeling, and hardly felt dizzy when going back to RW (Real World ;).
\nThe only thing is the glasses falling down from my nose, I’d need to stick them or something..<\/p>\n

I had to disable some shaders to have it work though.
\nYou can change convergence, separation, gamma and other settings in-game with hot-keys to have the perfect settings for comfort and depth.<\/p>\n

The Stereo API<\/a> allows you to access and set the stereo parameters, capture a stereo image, and, I think but not sure, display stereo images (to make 3d movie players for example) with the StereoBLT api. But I don’t know if this is included in the Stereo API or if you have<\/a> to ask for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is a also Virtools BB<\/a> to control these parameters.<\/p>\n

Without this StereoBLT API, you have no idea which eye you’re rendering since the card does the camera offset for you. This is less flexible than the Quadro Quad Buffer.<\/p>\n

All in all it’s very interesting and useful, thanks a lot NVidia!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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