For 3D stereo viewing in a lab with multiple systems viewing in stereo at the same time, you need to avoid using an infrared-based system. That means, either an active glasses setup with the NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro that uses RF, or a passive glasses setup with a row-interleaved stereo monitor (the same glasses that are used for Reald 3D in movie theaters). The problem with row-interleaved monitors is that Chimera's 2D dialogs are hard to read when looking at the screen with the glasses, so I'd recommend the NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro solution if you have the money. And, for Chimera, you will need a NVIDIA Quadro graphics card like the K4000 that you mentioned. See http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-professional-users.html for details. I don't know of any 3D TVs that use RF to control active glasses, so there is no need to explore using 3D TVs, i.e., a HDMI solution is not for you (but for people setting up a single 3D stereo system, a great solution is a Windows 8 computer with an AMD Radeon w/HD3D graphics card, and a 3D TV). HTH, Greg On 07/27/2014 10:42 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
Hello all,
I apologize if this is skewed for the list; please correct me if so.
I am putting together a proposal to set up a 3D/computational lab at our school for the STEM area, with Chimera at the top of the list of applications using it. The general idea is to have 10 workstations and one workstation-server (the server side being used for computational work), with students at each station doing their own things.
Does anyone have an idea of the best setup for each station with respect to hardware for viewing in 3D?? I expect our Dell-camp school to go with something like an Inspiron T5610, using an nVidia K4000 card.
I was thinking that the nVidia 3D vision system made sense, but honestly don't know if that would work with 10 different ones going at once. I am unfamiliar with other options.
Would someone help me with this? There would be two or three students at each station, FWIW. Am I out in left field in my thinking?
Cheers,
Kenward