| Author | Message | ||
     John Rating: N/A |
I have no idea of the time and effort it takes to develop a stereoscopic device so if what I suggest is totally implausable please consider the source and be gentle in your rebuttal. I've noticed one common thread to the HMD's is that there is two seperate LCD screens. I've read here that the resolution that would be needed to bring HMD's into the mainstream is cost prohibitive. Recently during one of my Best Buy outings I happened across a portable letterbox screen DVD player that had incredible resolution and clarity. I thought to my self "what if you mount this screen in a headset, use drivers to create two side by side images (not unlike Wicked3D's under/over sync-doubling), and physically seperate the images with a piece of plastic so there is no cross viewing". You could then adjust the center and width of the images to accomodate the distance between each users eyes. Then of course I started day-dreaming of Jane's WWII fighters with head tracking and that's as far as I got... Just an idea from someone not in the trenches with you guys ( but an avid supporter). John M | ||
| Eric Lindstrom Rating: N/A |
I've been thinking of a similar solution. it's not impossible, but the fact remains that you would have to create new drivers specifically for this purpose, I know that descent and descent II both had this feature integrated into the software. keep in mind, unless you "letterbox" the image(s), the hoizontal Rez. will be cut in half. -Eric L. | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
You could design a nice hand-hold or desk-mounted stereo-viewer, comparable to a common 3D-photo or 3D-slide-viewer. The Loreo viewer works exactly this way and has the same size. The optics are really thick and heavy. As a HMD it would become rather long and nose- heavy. The optics are the problem. Usually micro-displays are used to be able to utilize smaller, lighter optics. By the way, these mini-DVD player screens are very expensive and I can't imagine their resolution being 'incredible'. A NTSC-DVD has a resoltion of 720*480 and I don't think the screen has more than that. Maybe it's even less. You may also have to construct an interface. The required modification for the stereo-drivers is minimum. Wicked3D or VRCaddy could be changed in no time, if the programmers agree to do so. Christoph | ||
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