| Author | Message | ||
     Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Hi all, Has anyone been successful to make the VR100 glasses work under Linux? Not to say program them under OpenGL? My specs: Athlon 700Mhz 600M RAM ASUS V6800 Deluxe (geforce DDR) Also, which Windows game would be good to test the VR100 glasses under Windows (any)? One game that show stereo very well ... Thanks Me | ||
| Andreas Petersik Rating: N/A |
The only Linux solution which can do page flipping is AFAIK Summit Platinum from www.xig.com But: No support for Nvidia chips. I have the Platinum version of Summit-DX running with a Matrox G550 very well. Stereo is really great! I use the revelator glasses, but it should work with VR100 glasses, too. | ||
| flavio Rating: N/A |
I'm using VR100 glasses under linux with some applications without problems. Of course linux doesn't support page flipped stereo under NVidia cards (as your and my cards are) yet, however you can use other modes as interlaced stereo with your glasses without problems. XIG's summit drivers don't support NVIDIA cards so they are not an option. Anyway some applications have builtin interlace stereo support (like VMD) and you can use them without any additional tweak. Unlike them, most of standard applications just support page flipped stereo that NVidia supports under linux only for their Quadro line of cards (does Quadro mean "quad" the price for almost the same hardware?). However there's ongoing work to support different stereo modes for those applications that can only play page flipped stereo (like "O"). The project is called Stereogl and you can find a working version in stereogl.sourceforge.net. Regards, Flavio Villanustre | ||
| Andreas Petersik Rating: N/A |
Flavio: Are you sure that page-flipping stereo is supported for Quadro boards by NVidia? That would be great! Do you have some documents/statements about that? I cannot believe that this could be true... | ||
| Flavio Rating: N/A |
In fact it looks like page flipping is also supported for GeForce chipsets as the driver's readme file says: Page Flipping: This feature is available on all GeForce or newer hardware (ie: not TNT/TNT2 products), and is enabled in the case of a single full screen unobscured OpenGL application when syncing to vblank. Window Flipping: This feature requires UBB, and thus is only available on Quadro parts. However neither page flipping nor window flipping does necessary involves quad buffering and most stereo applications rely on quad buffering and stereo GL extensions support to work properly. There are some undocumented flags for NVIDIA's drivers related to stereo viewing as "stereo" and "blueline". Both on them besides being recognized on any hardware (even GeForce) should be really productive on Quadro boards. To put it in a nutshell, page-flipping is supported in any kind of NVIDIA hardware for full screen applications and only on Quadro boards for windowed applications. Quad Buffered stereo may be supported for Quadro Boards but I don't have official information or a Quadro board handy to test it. Regards, Flavio Villanustre. |
