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Re: SimulEyes by StereoGraphics

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From: Joseph Gaffney <>
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Date: Saturday, February 28, 1998 11:19 PM
Subject: SimulEyes by StereoGraphics

>Does anyone know if the SimulEyes by StereoGraphics has built in LCD's for
the stereo graphics or if it uses the monitor to output the stereo images,
while the glasses simply interpret? (hopefully the former, the glasses are
only $170, a nice price by comparison to most hmd's.
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I have pair of Simuleyes - they are shutter glasses not LCD and therefore
screenbound. A good buy for the dollar though obviously the Crystal Eyes
which is their professional glasses are far superior for wireless stereo 3D
eyewear.

Originally a game goggle it works with...

Descent II™ Test Flight
Slipstream™ 5000
Rise of the Triad™
In Pursuit of Greed:™ World I
Whiplash™

...and I think I've tried them with Doom. They are cool, there's no doubt,
but they are low-end. I don't know of any better in their class though. Way
better than Sega or the like. The worst I've had that were new on the scene
last year were the ones from VRex. I forget what they are called, I gave
them away to a kid. They promised 3D video viewing and well - kinda did.

Other shutters are made by
3D Max
http://www.threed-max.udac.se/
NuVision
http://www.nuvision3d.com

You should also check out 3DTV's products.They have all kinds of
display-wear.

These are the sys requirements for SimulEyes....

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
IBM or compatible multimedia
PC  with a minimum of 486/66
Mhz CPU (Pentium preferred), -- Pentium is best
CD-ROM Drive, VGA graphics
card and VGA multisync monitor
capable of 80Hz refresh rate
(most 15" or larger monitors). -- 17 inch is much better
4MB RAM required to run the
games that come with SimulEyes
(8 MB for Windows 95) blah, blah...

SimulEyes runs on AA batteries in a battery pack that's wired to the
glasses. And there's the problem. I found the pack to be cheaply made and
hence unstable. The glasses cut out every once in a while. I went through 3
packs before it worked (good support, StereoGraphics kept giving me a new
pack). Also you shouldn't leave the unit on, or with the batteries inside,
for long periods. My pack melted!

You plug in the adaptor (that leads to the pack which in turn leads to the
glasses) into the monitor port and plug your monitor into the adaptor, so it
sticks out quite a ways.

There are no specs on the web site that I can see and I can't seem to locate
my file on them yet. StereoGraphics is now marketing SimulEyes as a web
viewer. StereoGraphics offers two utilities for viewing stereoscopic images
posted on the Web with SimulEyes: SG-Toggle, the desktop accessory and the
SimWeb3d browser plug-in.

SG-Toggle a Windows accessory for manually enabling and disabling stereo
image viewing with the SimulEyes glasses that can be theoretically used with
your web browser, or any other stereo application.  It is available for
Windows 3.1 (16-bit), and for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 (32-bit). I haven't
tried this yet myself. But have used SG-Toggle. These can be downloaded for
free off their site. SG-Toggle activates SimulEyes by setting the display
into interlaced video mode and places a white line code at the bottom of the
screen. There are also stereo image demos on site.

The website is wonky but you can try it.
http://www.stereographics.com/html/simuleyes.html
http://www.Stereographics.com/html/web_viewer.html

and the application form for developers is at
ftp://ftp.stereographics.com/developers/dev_app.pdf

You can purchase SimulEyes from the site through a vendor list of
distributors and retailers. NewBreed as you know supplies most display tech
including the SimulEyes. They provide mostly to university or research based
clients and developers as well as to some volume buyers that they do busines
with.

The SRP is listed as USD $119.00.

That's about all I have at the moment. Except that they wiegh about 2 oz's
and look cool. Good design aesthetic. As soon as I find the specs I'll post.

Ed
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