Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D vision

[Emilian H. <emi...@gm...>]

On Friday, January 11, 2013 12:07:27 Renk Thorsten wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has experience with the stereoscopic view modes of
> FG. Coming with my new laptop were very fancy NVidia  IR synchronized LCD
> shutter glasses for 3D vision, and I've used them to have a look at some 3D
> movie clips, which was sort of impressive. Unfortunately, they don't seem
> to do anything for any of the 3D view modes of FG - all I see are for
> instance two images next to each other.
> 
> Now, 3D movies appear the same before the glasses activate (which requires
> to press the 3d button under Windows (no idea if this would ever work under
> Linux) at which point the two movie image streams get time-shifted
> superimposed and the IR sync starts activating the glasses. However,
> pressing the 3D button when FG is running in any of the available view
> options does precisely nothing, the system does't seem to recognize that
> there's a 3d capable data stream and doesn't even attempt to fire up the
> glasses.
> 
> I have no idea if this should in principle work and just requires to set
> some option somewhere, or if the 3D capabilities of FG are simply not
> designed for the hardware - does anyone have that mode running with similar
> hardware?
> 
There is an option configurable in the xorg.conf file, but this appears to work only on Quadro Cards (it might be simply a case of stale documentation). 

About a third of the page down here:
http://uk.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/310.19/README/xconfigoptions.html