Scientific computing with "3DTV Play"? Linux? Using TVs for 3D model rendering
At the university where I work, we have researchers who create 3D models of various things, which they would love to be able to display on a stereoscopic device. Until the arrival of 3D TVs last year, the cost of such displays has been prohibitive, but now we can see a possibility of putting together a display system with a 3DTV (eg the 73in rear projection Mitsibushi WD-73638 for about $1600 plus a GeForce card and the 3DTV Play software to make the TV talk to the computer) for under $2K.

However I have *zero* experience or knowlege of this area so I want to run some basic questions past you experts before we blow 2K on a test system :-)

1) I hope this doesn't *only* enable gaming? I hope there are regular 3D drivers that will now talk to these TVs once the Play software has been run? So that whatever scientific package we're using, eg to display molecules or GIS files or 3D CAD files will work with the TVs? Have things like OpenGL etc etc been ported to this environment? (*any* popular graphics package, at this point I don't need to tie it down to some particular one)

2) Am I right in assuming that the 3DTV Play software reprograms the GPU to send the bits out in the right fashion? Is it something you run once to do a GPU driver upgrade or do you run it every time you reboot? reason I ask is because we have some people whose graphics are driven from Linux. Will that be a problem? If there's no linux version, can it be set up once from Windows and then used from Linux?

3) Has *anyone* used a 3D TV from a computer to output 3D graphics from any source other than commercial games? Can you talk about your experiences?

If there's a better forum for asking this question by all means point me at it. I did look around some academic places and haven't found anyone else using 3D TVs yet for scientific visualization.

Thanks,

Graham
refs: software: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3dtv-play-requirements.html
suitable tv: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mitsubishi-Mitsubishi-WD-73638/15711201
At the university where I work, we have researchers who create 3D models of various things, which they would love to be able to display on a stereoscopic device. Until the arrival of 3D TVs last year, the cost of such displays has been prohibitive, but now we can see a possibility of putting together a display system with a 3DTV (eg the 73in rear projection Mitsibushi WD-73638 for about $1600 plus a GeForce card and the 3DTV Play software to make the TV talk to the computer) for under $2K.



However I have *zero* experience or knowlege of this area so I want to run some basic questions past you experts before we blow 2K on a test system :-)



1) I hope this doesn't *only* enable gaming? I hope there are regular 3D drivers that will now talk to these TVs once the Play software has been run? So that whatever scientific package we're using, eg to display molecules or GIS files or 3D CAD files will work with the TVs? Have things like OpenGL etc etc been ported to this environment? (*any* popular graphics package, at this point I don't need to tie it down to some particular one)



2) Am I right in assuming that the 3DTV Play software reprograms the GPU to send the bits out in the right fashion? Is it something you run once to do a GPU driver upgrade or do you run it every time you reboot? reason I ask is because we have some people whose graphics are driven from Linux. Will that be a problem? If there's no linux version, can it be set up once from Windows and then used from Linux?



3) Has *anyone* used a 3D TV from a computer to output 3D graphics from any source other than commercial games? Can you talk about your experiences?



If there's a better forum for asking this question by all means point me at it. I did look around some academic places and haven't found anyone else using 3D TVs yet for scientific visualization.



Thanks,



Graham

refs: software: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3dtv-play-requirements.html

suitable tv: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mitsubishi-Mitsubishi-WD-73638/15711201

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