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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 15:29:37 CDT

Dear Jill,
  The Eye3D shouldn't even need any special video drivers in order to
work with Windows XP, but the problem you described where it doesn't get
power sounds more serious and is most likely the real source of trouble.
Its possible that the Eye3D glasses would need a power adapter to work
on your system, I'd recommend calling them and ask about that. They
made one for me so that I could do some tests on some non-PC hardware
that had similar problems, perhaps that would cure your problem as well.

As far as the E-D glasses go, they appear similar to the Eye3D glasses
but you will have to have a video driver that will support quad-buffered
stereo rendering, as I don't believe they support the line-blanking or
scanline-interleaved stereo format that VMD uses for the Eye3D glasses.

If anyone else has comments, feel free to chime in...

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:53:48AM -0700, Jill Vickery wrote:
> I am trying to set up VMD on a PC running Windows XP with an nVidia Geforce4
> MX420 video card using the Eye3D premium glasses. However, when the Eye3D
> adapter is put in place no power goes to the Eye3D transmitter and the
> monitor no longer works. In contacting Eye3D they say the system does not
> work with XP (I must have an NT based system to run other programs). Has
> anyone been successful in using Eye3D glasses with Windows XP, if so any
> hints would be appreciated.
>
> Also I see that nVidia has new stereo drivers they say will work with the
> E-D glasses from e-dimensional (no mention of the Eye3D glasses by nVidia).
> Since E-dimensional says their glasses will work with Windows XP and the
> nVidia card I am considering getting rid of the Eye3D glasses and trying the
> E-D glasses. Does anyone have experience with the E-D glasses and what is
> your opinion of them.
>
> Jill 

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