I got a lot of questions about 3D Vision and so I
asked Andrew Page, the Product Manager for 3D Vision at NVIDIA
to respond – please send him your questions
directly apage AT
nvidia.com
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I’m the product manager for professional stereo
solutions here at NVIDIA. Sumit asked me to give an overview of our professional
stereo options. NVIDIA Quadro boards and applications like PyMol and VMD, give
you a wide range of stereo
display options on Windows and Linux.
First, 3D Vision is now supported on Linux for
certain Quadro boards (recent ones with the stereo connector). Our website is
being updated to have a “3D Vision for Quadro – Linux” page
which will cover all the details. I’ll let you
know the URL once it’s posted. For those that want a head start, the
feature is in the 195.36.15 driver, take a look at the README for configuration
specifics. (For those on Windows, the 3D Vision requirements are here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_pro_graphics_boards.html)
3D Visions isn’t your only option though. The
Linux and Windows drivers both support most all the stereo displays and
projectors that are on the market today. In the driver control panel, or
xconfig, tell the driver what sort of stereo
signal your display expects, configure the application to “page
flip”, “active” or “CrystalEyes” mode and off you
go.
We’re still working through professional
support for the newly available consumer TVs. The current set of panels are
really designed for blue ray or broadcast TV stereo which has a different set of
requirements from professional applications.
You’ll certainly be able to play blu-ray 3D and video on the these panels
later this year, but running applications like VMD isn’t quite ready yet.
-Andrew Page
NVIDIA Quadro
apage AT nvidia.com
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