[3dem] Hardware Stereo

[Ludtke, Steven J]

There was a discussion about this here less than a year ago I think. Personally, I prefer the passive monitors, which use alternating row circular polarization fixed on the monitor.
Advantages:
- don't need a high refresh rate
- unpowered glasses, same kind the movie theaters (except IMAX) use
- no need for expensive Quadro card if your application has native support for row interleaving (Chimera does, for example)

Disadvantages:
- lose 1/2 the vertical resolution, which can produce a bit of a 'stair-step' effect. Minimized if you get a 4k monitor
- (without Quadro) limited to applications with native support

On Oct 15, 2015, at 10:37 AM, Luther, Pradeep K <p.luther at imperial.ac.uk<mailto:p.luther at imperial.ac.uk>> wrote:

Dear List,

I am looking to upgrade the stereo imaging on my Windows and Linux systems.   Please can users share their recent experience in  hardware for 3D imaging?  What is the preferred hardware with regard to graphics card, monitor and 3D glasses?   I am using an old sytem: a CRT, an Nvidia quadro graphics card and NuVision glasses.  Except the graphics card, these are obsolete.  Some 3D solutions seem to have come and gone already e.g. ASUS VG278H (with build-in IR emitter for driving nvidia stereo glasses).  For flat screen monitors I would like to enquire whether the 144 Hz monitors are much better than 120 Hz ones?   There is a lot of information on the Nvidia website (http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-displays.html) but it will be more useful to get recent experience from the 3Dem community.

Cheers
Pradeep
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