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From: Simon Su (newsgroup4ssu_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 16 2009 - 16:29:22 CDT

Hi John,

This is great. Bill mentioned VMD to me and asked me to verify if FreeVR
link is still in VMD with you.

Do you have a quick readme guide on how to compile VMD with FreeVR? or is it
just setting the FREEVRDIR variable? :D

The gamepad navigation is awesome. It would be 80% there to have gamepad
navigation and DLP stereo in your windows version while waiting for FreeVR
windows version release. :) I will try to get a hold of a DLP projector to
test the quadro driver out before buying the HDTV. Maybe Bill can help? :)

Do you know if any of your user base is at Princeton University?

Thank you for the 2 counts of good news,
Simon

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:10 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Simon,
> Yes, VMD still supports FreeVR. You should be able to compile
> from source with any of the recent versions of FreeVR.
>
> If you want checkerboard stereo in a normal non-VR VMD session,
> the best option will be to use the latest NVIDIA Quadro drivers
> which provide support for these and several of the other
> unusual stereo formats internally. The Windows Quadro drivers support
> this already, they expect to add it to the Linux drivers in the near
> future from what I've been told.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:04:25PM -0400, Simon Su wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am very new to VMD. So, two questions:
> >
> > 1. Is there support for the DLP stereo (checkerboard stereo) in VMD? I
> > would like to be able to run VMD in stereo using a Samsung or
> Mitsubishi
> > DLP HDTV with a quadro or geforce machine
> > 2. I heard that VMD worked with FreeVR at one point. Is there still
> the
> > case? Or any other VR toolkit like vrjuggler? I would like to have my
> > viewpoint tracked with a tracking hardware like optitrack when viewing
> in
> > stereo mode using the DLP HDTV above.
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Simon Su
>
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