We haven't yet tried Matt Baker's setup from the wiki page, but I have seen many different model of Macs show double images when asked to display in sequential stereo, so I would expect that it work on newer systems. If you are using a Windows or Linux computer, then you'll probably still need a workstation graphics card, i.e., an AMD FirePro or NVidia Quadro to do stereo-within-a-window. Unfortunately the manufacturer's websites do not state which models support HDMI 1.4a. The wikipedia.org article for the FirePro cards lists the V4900, V5900, and V7900 as supporting HD3D which is AMD's superset of HDMI 1.4.a, so those should be good choices. I have not found similar information for Quadro cards (and it's unclear if something like the NVidia 3DTV Play product, that supports 3D TVs for their GeForce cards, would be needed or not -- shouldn't be needed, but ...). In all cases, it is probably critical that the output resolution of the computer be 720p @50Hz or @60Hz since that is all that HDMI 1.4a supports. 1080p@48Hz should work too. Good luck and please let know what you find out, Greg On 01/26/2012 12:04 PM, Tom Goddard wrote:
Hi Jani,
We have one report of Chimera on a Mac laptop correctly rendering stereo on a Samsung 3D TV:
http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/wiki/3dtvs
Greg Couch in our lab might have more details and may have tried Chimera with a 3D TV.
Tom
Hi,
Has anyone tried running Chimera in a system where the monitor is a 3D capable TV connected with an HDMI (version 1.4a) cable? In principle the synchronization signal for the 3D-glasses should be transmitted along the image through the HDMI cable to the TV, like in 3D blu-ray players. We are planning on purchasing a system like this, but before we do I would like to find out if this setup works well with Chimera.
--Jani
Jani Seitsonen Aalto University Espoo Finland jani.seitsonen@aalto.fi
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