3d Stereo Glasses

[BaDToaD]

Right I've ordered some of the £20 ones off ebay. I'll let you all know how I get on with them. They're ELSA Revalators which have good reviews but are a bit old now but for £20 they're worth a go. What model are you ELSA ones Steve-O?

 

[Jarska333]

Anyone have Sony glasstron or similar?

Whatever happened to virtual helmets?

Sega Master System had a shutter 3d gimmick... Dunno if it worked too well. One racing game for NES had red/blue-3d option...

 

[Mosch]

Whatever happened to virtual helmets?

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Got one too, for the SNES, the Virtual Reality Stuntmaster.

I really only need a Power Glove and I will have most VR stuff you can get...

 

[Steve-O]

Right I've ordered some of the £20 ones off ebay. I'll let you all know how I get on with them. They're ELSA Revalators which have good reviews but are a bit old now but for £20 they're worth a go. What model are you ELSA ones Steve-O?

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hhmmm I think they only made two model type's - WIRELESS and WIRED

I got the wired ones like these -

They kick ass for the price

 

[Axeman]

I paid £29 for the wireless E-Dimensional ones...

Not bad methinks.

Still ahvent arrived. Bugged the guy I bought them off by email and he apologised and promised to send them tomorrow...

 

[BaDToaD]

Got mine today. Just finished my first play with 'em

Had a bit of a job getting them going as they clash with a signal on pin 12 of the monitor. The sellers support site said to bust off pin 12 as it's only a data channel that's not needed. There were lots of people saying it worked for them so I thought sod it why not. Now the glasses are working great.
I've been playing X2 (a space sim) for the last couple of hours and just kind of flying around admiring the view. Asteroid belts are awesome. Dogfights are cool too your laser bolts really do fly off into the distance. Likewise the enemys lasers snake towards you in a very realistic manner

I also had a look at some stereo still shots a guy had done via a pair of Revelators of MOHAA and the blokes with you in your squad just look so much more real. Solid not flat like they normally look if you know what I mean. Gonna have to get my copy back off me mate

As you may have gathered I'm like a dog with 2 dicks

Best £20 I've spent in a long time.

 

[Steve-O]

Nice ... What type of interfearance were you getting??? Were the glasses sometimes stopping flashing for a second after every 10 - 15 seconds???

 

[Mosch]

BaDToaD, what driver did you use and what kind of graphic card do you have?

 

[Steve-O]

I think he has a Nvidia Card (As I think the ELSA glasses only work with a nvidia card) I use a Geforce 4 ti 4200 128MB and the Latest Nvidia Stereo and card drivers

 

[BaDToaD]

Basically the glasses were flashing randomly and only showing a second or so of 3D every 30 seconds or more.


The card is a Geforce 5200. passable but a bitt naff by todays standards. All my games are ok in 3D so far except Doom 3 which slows to about 12fps due to the performance hit of the 3D. Everything else is awesome.

The most impressive thing is the rolling demo of X2 The Threat downloadable from Egosoft and weighing in at 40 mb or so. I urge anyone with 3D glasses to download it. It's even more impressive than 3D Mark. Just have a gander at the screenies at egosoft and then imagine that lot moving and in 3D.

Ooops there goes another pair of pants!

Edit: Damn Typos

Edit2: Ooops forgot. The driver is the latest Nvidia 61.77 then you download a Stereo driver also 61.77

 

[Tobriand]

Right, if I'm getting you right, BadToad, your glasses are turning on for a fraction of a second every so often with the possible exception of a few made-for-3D demos. If so, you just need to activate them manually using the E3D or the H3D (e3D is technically for E-dimensional, but any of them work with any glasses, pretty much) activator. Just load it up, right click on the icon in the taskbar, and choose "Stereo on: Resynch".

That'll turn the glasses on - though you'll need to turn on stereo in games separately. Typically the combination for that is CTRL-T, but hey.

Also, if you aren't getting stereo at all, try downgrading your drivers - I know there are some troubles with many newer nVidia drivers, especially with 5200 cards, in working with the stereo ones. I.e. stereo refuses to activate. Which is an arse. But hey - there we go.

This is all completely separate, btw, from the 3DPlus2 software. That will be able to turn glasses on and off itself independent of even whether a driver is installed

 

[Axeman]

ARSEBISCUITS!!!

They still haven't arrived. Wish the guy would get off his behind and post them :angry:

Wanna play!!! :unsure:

 

[Steve-O]

has he posted them???


Badtoad, that Demo kicked ass in 3D , BUT the Best has to be the Official Nvidia Test (Goto your Nvidia Options, Stereo Properties, then in the drop down Stereo Setup and Test and click Launch Test Application) Now when in that adjust the settings

Use CTRL + F6 to Make the Image come out the screen more at you (if you apply too much use CTRL + F5) . This Looks cool when you get it right It comes right to your face

Now use CTRL + F4 untill it looks better. Try get it so you comibne CTRL + F4 and CTRL + F6 Settings as good as you can.

Or Use CTRL + F5 to put the Image "Into" the screen (Watch untill the Screen flicks the oposite way, you will first see the image move together to form one and then move appart the oposite direction) If you apply too much, again use CTRL + F6 to fix.

 

[Mosch]

Meh! On my old PC, everything 3d worked nicely. Elsa Erazor 3 Pro OEM and a CRT Monitor, 3D galore. Upgrade my PC with an ATI card and a cool new TFT monitor and that damn shutter technology won't work anymore. Basically I complain about that since I got my new graphic card.... and I won't stop! Ever! Huahaha!

*sigh*

 

[BaDToaD]

Right, if I'm getting you right, BadToad, your glasses are turning on for a fraction of a second every so often with the possible exception of a few made-for-3D demos.

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TBH I have got them working fine now. I was just describing the sysmptoms to Steve-O as he asked the following "What type of interfearance were you getting???"

Sorry


The fault was actually that the ELSA glasses need to use the same data channel that the monitor used on pin 12 so you just trash the monitors pin 12 and that fixes it.

 

[BaDToaD]

Sorry to bump the topic but has anyone got any original ELSA revelator drivers. Also are they compatible with Win XP. I have heard they give an excellent impression of depth and I'd like to compare them to the Nvidia ones.

 

[Mosch]

I do, but I am rather sure you can just d/l them from the elsa page...

 

[BaDToaD]

I do, but I am rather sure you can just d/l them from the elsa page...

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Unfortunately elsa don't exist anymore and the only versions I could find were win 9x from about 1999 and I'm not sure what they'll do to XP especially as it's based on NT and NT and 9x don't usually mix.

 

[Mosch]

I know that, but if you want original elsa drivers, you can only get them from the elsa homepage... it still exists:

http://www.elsa.com/EN/

You can find the drivers under drivers/other:

http://www.elsa.com/EN/Support/driver_other.asp


If you want those from the CD, I have those too, just say the word and I'll go and find the cd for you

 

[BaDToaD]

Cheers Mosch. I'll have a look tonight when I'm home from work.