Stereoscopic 3D Resources

Here is a sampling of resources for stereoscopic 3D technology. This is only a partial list -- The links listed below are for companies whom I have been involved with emerging liquid crystal shutter glasses technology, like StereoGraphics CrystalEyes and SimulEyes. Of course, you should search for other links using keywords like "stereoscopic" or "stereo 3d" -- you may be surprised to find out that some stereoscopic enthusiasts have been investigating this phenomenon for a long time!

Hardware with Stereoscopic Display Support

Liquid Crystal Shutter (LCS) Glasses vendors

• StereoGraphics CrystalEyes, SimulEyes, monitor Z-Screen
• i-o Display Systems i-3d (formerly H3D)
• NuVision 3D-Spex
• VRex VR-Surfer, VR-Visualizer
• 3DTV
• ISee3d

Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) 3D Device vendors

• i-o Display Systems i-glasses HMD (formerly Virtual-IO)
• Dimension Technologies auto-stereoscopic displays

Graphics Hardware chipset vendors with stereoscopic support

• Rendition Verite 1000, 2200
• Alliance AT3D, AT25 for 3DFX VoodooRush
• 3DLabs Permedia2, GlintMX2, Oxygen (formerly DEC)

Graphics Hardware Board vendors with stereoscopic support -- Consumer Boards

• Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro (Permedia2)
• Hercules Dynamite3D (Permedia2), Stingray3D (AT25+VoodooRush), Thriller3D (Verite2200)
• ELSA 3D-Revelator (TNT2 + above/below)
• Intergraph Intense3d (VoodooRush)
• Metabyte Wicked3D (Voodoo2 + above/below)
• ASUS AGP-TNT2, AGP-GeForce (above/below)
• (Note: Boards denoted as "above/below" use non-stereo chipsets with additional stereo sync-doubler circuitry for fullscreen stereo display)

Graphics Hardware Board vendors with stereoscopic support -- Professional Systems

• Diamond FireGL 4000 (Evans&Sutherland + above/below)
• ELSA GloriaXL, GloriaXXL (GlintMX2)
• Intergraph Realizm NT workstation series (proprietary)
• 3DLabs Oxygen series (formerly DEC/Dynamic Pictures)
• SGI Cobalt series NT workstations (proprietary)

Software with stereoscopic support

Software-Emulated Stereoscopic Support

• SciTech Software GLDirect 2.0 (Windows OpenGL), SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 (Windows DirectX, DOS VESA BIOS Extension)

Game titles (released)

• Id Software Quake (DOS VESA, Windows interlaced, OpenGL, Rendition, 3DFX above/below)
• Shiny Entertainment MDK (Rendition)
• Interplay Descent (DOS, Rendition)
• Gremlin Whiplash (DOS, Rendition)

VR Development Tools

• Sense8 WorldToolKit (OpenGL)
• Superscape VRToolkit (above/below, interlaced)
• ThemeKit VRExplorerKit (DOS)

CAD and Modeling

• AutoDesk AutoCAD 2000 and Mechanical Desktop 4 (OpenGL)
• Unigraphics Solid Edge (OpenGL)
• ELSA 3D viewer plug-ins for AutoCAD and 3DStudio Max (OpenGL)
• Template Graphics OpenInventor library (OpenGL)
• SolidWorks SolidWorks98 (OpenGL)
• Diamond 3DWin viewer plug-in for AutoCAD (OpenGL)

Image Production Tools

• Chasm Graphics Sudden Depth image compositor (multi-format Windows, OpenGL)
• 3DEM Digital Elevation Map terrain generator (Windows, OpenGL)
• SF Imaging Services StereoJet polarized-ink printing (Windows, PhotoShop)
• AVIC ProMagic lenticular screen printing utilities (Windows)

Software Development Tools

• SciTech Software MGL (DOS, Windows, Linux, VESA, OpenGL), DDStereo SDK (DirectX), GLDirect SDK (OpenGL)
• StereoGraphics CrystalEyes/SimulEyes SDK
• OpenGL specification
• Rendition Speedy3d/Redline SDK (proprietary)
• 3DFX GLIDE SDK (proprietary)

Technical Info

VESA stereoscopic display connector

• VESA Standards Organization
• quick reference for CrystalEyes and SimulEyes users

Algorithm for Stereoscopic Perspective Generation

• Geometric Algorithm
• OpenGL implementation
• Direct3D implementation

Links to Stereoscopic Interest Sites

• Stereoscopic 3D Web Rings for Photographs and Movies
• Web Ring for other stereo3D sites (old)
• Stereo3D site for stereo device info and gossip
• Chasm Graphics stereo image gallery
• Graven Images stereo images and links
• SimuZone stereo image gallery
• New Vision Technology stereo image gallery
• A Visual Imaging Company stereo image gallery
• VRex stereo image gallery
• Ironic stereo image gallery (archive)

Contact Dave Milici at Ironic Research Labs via email: davem@ironicresearch.com