3D Vision glasses with a DLP TV without a 3D graphics card driver or on linux?
Is it possible to use the 3D Vision glasses with a DLP TV that uses the VESA sync cable but without installing a stereo 3D graphics driver?

Some DLP TV's can display 3D content in the checker-board format which does not really require a stereoscopic 3D graphics card and driver for simply viewing images or videos and it would be handy if the Nvidia 3D Vision glasses could be used for this too. Perhaps a simpler and lower power graphics card could be used for the media centre computer, and it could run the great Linux OS. If some configuration is required on the emitter then surely a simple USB application could set this up?

Does anyone have experience comparing the quality of the viewing experience using the Nvidia 3D Vision glasses versus Razor3D DLP glasses or other glasses for viewing stereoscopic 3D on DLP TVs?
Is it possible to use the 3D Vision glasses with a DLP TV that uses the VESA sync cable but without installing a stereo 3D graphics driver?



Some DLP TV's can display 3D content in the checker-board format which does not really require a stereoscopic 3D graphics card and driver for simply viewing images or videos and it would be handy if the Nvidia 3D Vision glasses could be used for this too. Perhaps a simpler and lower power graphics card could be used for the media centre computer, and it could run the great Linux OS. If some configuration is required on the emitter then surely a simple USB application could set this up?



Does anyone have experience comparing the quality of the viewing experience using the Nvidia 3D Vision glasses versus Razor3D DLP glasses or other glasses for viewing stereoscopic 3D on DLP TVs?

#1
Posted 12/27/2009 06:50 AM   
It is technically possible but Nvidia designed it's emitter to be permanently connected to the stereo 3D driver even in the case the sync comes from the DLP 3D sync cable. This USB to 3D driver connection has not been circumvented yet.
Until someone cracks the USB connecton and makes an alternative USB driver, you will not be able to use the nvidia glasses without official support from nvidia.

In your situation, it's better not to buy the nvidia glasses at the moment.
It is technically possible but Nvidia designed it's emitter to be permanently connected to the stereo 3D driver even in the case the sync comes from the DLP 3D sync cable. This USB to 3D driver connection has not been circumvented yet.

Until someone cracks the USB connecton and makes an alternative USB driver, you will not be able to use the nvidia glasses without official support from nvidia.



In your situation, it's better not to buy the nvidia glasses at the moment.

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#2
Posted 12/27/2009 06:38 PM   
[quote name='BlackSharkfr' post='971231' date='Dec 27 2009, 07:38 PM']It is technically possible but Nvidia designed it's emitter to be permanently connected to the stereo 3D driver even in the case the sync comes from the DLP 3D sync cable. This USB to 3D driver connection has not been circumvented yet.
Until someone cracks the USB connecton and makes an alternative USB driver, you will not be able to use the nvidia glasses without official support from nvidia.

In your situation, it's better not to buy the nvidia glasses at the moment.[/quote]

Yes, I'd like this as well. I have problems with the software. My HTPC is a Windows XP 64-bit with SLI dual 6600. So I can't install any drivers or software.

What makes this frustrating is that the hardware requirement shouldn't exist for me. I've got a Mitsubishi xx833 which has the 3D Sync port on the back, and a PS3 with Avatar (the game). This setup should work fine without a computer at all. And it does with other shutter glasses on the market.

But, even though the ps3 is sending a sync signal to the tv, which comes out the sync port to the emmiter. The nvidia emitter still has the bizarre requirement for a computer to say "its ok" to start syncing. If that weren't the case, these glasses would be great general use glasses. As well as great computer use glasses.

Nvidia really bit themselves in the foot there.

I'd like a solution for this, whether it be a software option from nvidia to tell the emmiter to "trust" whatever comes from the tv sync port, since its plugged into the emitter anyways. Or a software hack that tells the usb device to let it trust the tv sync. or even a hardware hack that tells the emmiter to act like nothing more than an dumb IR blaster, and echo the sync signal out to the glasses.
[quote name='BlackSharkfr' post='971231' date='Dec 27 2009, 07:38 PM']It is technically possible but Nvidia designed it's emitter to be permanently connected to the stereo 3D driver even in the case the sync comes from the DLP 3D sync cable. This USB to 3D driver connection has not been circumvented yet.

Until someone cracks the USB connecton and makes an alternative USB driver, you will not be able to use the nvidia glasses without official support from nvidia.



In your situation, it's better not to buy the nvidia glasses at the moment.



Yes, I'd like this as well. I have problems with the software. My HTPC is a Windows XP 64-bit with SLI dual 6600. So I can't install any drivers or software.



What makes this frustrating is that the hardware requirement shouldn't exist for me. I've got a Mitsubishi xx833 which has the 3D Sync port on the back, and a PS3 with Avatar (the game). This setup should work fine without a computer at all. And it does with other shutter glasses on the market.



But, even though the ps3 is sending a sync signal to the tv, which comes out the sync port to the emmiter. The nvidia emitter still has the bizarre requirement for a computer to say "its ok" to start syncing. If that weren't the case, these glasses would be great general use glasses. As well as great computer use glasses.



Nvidia really bit themselves in the foot there.



I'd like a solution for this, whether it be a software option from nvidia to tell the emmiter to "trust" whatever comes from the tv sync port, since its plugged into the emitter anyways. Or a software hack that tells the usb device to let it trust the tv sync. or even a hardware hack that tells the emmiter to act like nothing more than an dumb IR blaster, and echo the sync signal out to the glasses.

#3
Posted 12/31/2009 08:03 AM   
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