Stereo for the masses
MS has announced support for xp until 2014.

nVidia should now go ahead and make stereo drivers for xp and latest graphic cards.

'Nuff said. :magic:
MS has announced support for xp until 2014.



nVidia should now go ahead and make stereo drivers for xp and latest graphic cards.



'Nuff said. :magic:

#1
Posted 07/02/2008 08:25 AM   
The OS isn't an issue here. nVidia could easily implement field sequential support in their vista stereo drivers... they voluntarily do not do so. They obviously can't based on the agreement they must have signed with Zalman. It's only a matter of politics here... Questionable decision indeed but it is not the end-users that decides, it's nVidia.

nVidia seems to be thinking that only 3D screen stereoscopy is useful for consumer-level users. I wonder what all manufacturers of stereoscopic HMD think of this… eMagin, io-Display, Daeyang, …
The OS isn't an issue here. nVidia could easily implement field sequential support in their vista stereo drivers... they voluntarily do not do so. They obviously can't based on the agreement they must have signed with Zalman. It's only a matter of politics here... Questionable decision indeed but it is not the end-users that decides, it's nVidia.



nVidia seems to be thinking that only 3D screen stereoscopy is useful for consumer-level users. I wonder what all manufacturers of stereoscopic HMD think of this… eMagin, io-Display, Daeyang, …

#2
Posted 07/02/2008 11:37 PM   
[quote name='marcbe' date='Jul 2 2008, 07:37 PM']I wonder what all manufacturers of stereoscopic HMD think of this… eMagin, io-Display, Daeyang, …
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What I wonder is if these companies ever had to pay Nvidia a fee to license the S3D driver in the first place. One theory I had was that maybe these companies did have a deal with Nvidia at one point, but somewhere in this deal it mentioned Windows XP. Meaning Nvidia could have used some clause in the contract to cease support for 3d hardware (since the agreement never mentioned Vista). This is all wild speculation, but Nvidia seems like they would do something like that.
[quote name='marcbe' date='Jul 2 2008, 07:37 PM']I wonder what all manufacturers of stereoscopic HMD think of this… eMagin, io-Display, Daeyang, …

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What I wonder is if these companies ever had to pay Nvidia a fee to license the S3D driver in the first place. One theory I had was that maybe these companies did have a deal with Nvidia at one point, but somewhere in this deal it mentioned Windows XP. Meaning Nvidia could have used some clause in the contract to cease support for 3d hardware (since the agreement never mentioned Vista). This is all wild speculation, but Nvidia seems like they would do something like that.
#3
Posted 07/03/2008 03:50 AM   
[quote name='marcbe' date='Jul 2 2008, 03:37 PM']The OS isn't an issue here. nVidia could easily implement field sequential support in their vista stereo drivers... they voluntarily do not do so. They obviously can't based on the agreement they must have signed with Zalman. It's only a matter of politics here... Questionable decision indeed but it is not the end-users that decides, it's nVidia.

nVidia seems to be thinking that only 3D screen stereoscopy is useful for consumer-level users. I wonder what all manufacturers of stereoscopic HMD think of this… eMagin, io-Display, Daeyang, …
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Well I have a Zalman and I use xp so I'd like some xp drivers /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />
[quote name='marcbe' date='Jul 2 2008, 03:37 PM']The OS isn't an issue here. nVidia could easily implement field sequential support in their vista stereo drivers... they voluntarily do not do so. They obviously can't based on the agreement they must have signed with Zalman. It's only a matter of politics here... Questionable decision indeed but it is not the end-users that decides, it's nVidia.



nVidia seems to be thinking that only 3D screen stereoscopy is useful for consumer-level users. I wonder what all manufacturers of stereoscopic HMD think of this… eMagin, io-Display, Daeyang, …

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Well I have a Zalman and I use xp so I'd like some xp drivers /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />

#4
Posted 07/04/2008 01:24 PM   
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