[3dem] Hardware Stereo

[Petr Leiman]

Hi Pradeep,

We have got
Acer Predator XB270HA
NVIDIA K5000
nVidia GeForce 3D Vision2 kit
working beautifully on a i7-4930K 32GB machine (Ubuntu 14.04 and nVidia drivers). Even though the K5000 card has a lot fewer CUDA cores that GeForce GTX780 (the original card), Chimera and Coot run so much smoother on that K5000 card. And the stereo is really really nice. Some people say that it feels more real than the passive movie theater-like setup. Perhaps, it’s the price tag on the whole thing that supplies this additional satisfaction component to the perception…

In any case, the setup helps a lot with low resolution (~4A) model building of large structures so it’s worth the money. The computer now runs two monitors (one stereo and one mono) and Nvidia drivers are clever enough to automatically switch between stereo and mono when you drag a window from one monitor to the other.

The K5000 card is now outdated. I believe the new version is K5200 with even more memory at the same price.

Petr

On Oct 15, 2015, at 10:37, 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 aremuch 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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