What is?
Stereo3D: Not a projection of images of two opposite sides, or 6 sides of a cube.
Not VRML. Simply to view an image, video or game with LCD shutter glasses.
These glasses have no small display of the image, they only change between
black and transparent. The monitor displays alernatively the image for the
right eye (the shutter will black out the left eye) and for the left eye (the
shutter will black out the right eye). Special monitors are also available, but
quality isin discussion.
Panorama = Environment Maps = Image Array: Like a photo printout panorama, but it’s always 360° and the endes are connected to each other. You can display it on a monitor and pan around, not recognizing the begin and end of the panorama, thus it’s called immersive image. In ideal case you can also look up till 90° and look down till –90°. It’s stitched together by panorama stitching software either of 2 or 3 fisheye images or one ore more rows of normal images (5-15 images each row). Different formats are used, either one big image in a special projection (spherical, cylindrical) or 6 images for the sides of a cube (Quicktime format), both producing similar quality.
Vergleich Model-Based-Rendering and Image-Based-Rendering (German, Powerpoint)
Pano-Show: clickable panos or geographical maps (similar to HTML image maps), which link to other panos Examples: Sparrenburg Parramatta Stadium
Pano Slide-Show: timed displaying panos, usally autorotating Example: 01digintale dimension go to "Projecte", "Immobilien", "Facility Managment" and click on one of the two “HSG”-icons
Animated Pano:
· Panos with Flash animations Example Sydney Opera House, Undersea
· Panos with inserted normal videos Exaples: Cinema 1 2 3 4 5, Porsche-Window, Game Level "Varyx": Go to Anartillian
Pano-Video:
1. Movement Pano: think about making photos
clockwise (or with scanner camera) and there is a movement you captured Flash Movies Viewer $ 50,-
or Quicktime Movies Quicktime
FAQ, QT Techinics, QT Links
or Mike Carambat’s AVR
Player
Disadvantage: Difficult to link the two ends of the pano because of time
difference
2. Immersive Movie: think about a rolling game demo where you can loock around but cannot move, instead you have a fixed movement like using a movie camera on invisable rails Article: Immersive Media OnSite Link
Overview of Panorama Modes and File Formats: PanopticVision,
PT Viewer, SIGGRAPH
Line Camera: Dr. Clauss
Overview of Stereo3D Modes and File Formats: Dr. Clauss 3-Qubed White
Paper1 White Paper2
Stereoscopic Viewing: Normal stereo viewing to get a 3D effect with near
objects looking near extending till the background.
Pseudoscopic Viewing: This is the effect you get when you direct the left
eye to the right eye's image and the right eye to the Left eye's image (NOT the
same as cross eyed viewing). All the depth cues become reversed. It's an erie
optical effect where familiar objects appear to turn inside out. Pseudoscopic
and Stereoscopic images or viewing can be used to identify which image is Left
or Right.
Identification of the viewing: Use two different images with
letters “L” and “R” or similar, use a stereo image where you know which part is
near and which far or try this: The right eye sees further past the left edge
than will the left eye. And the Left eye sees farther past the right edge than
the right eye. Examine the distant parts of a stereo picture near the side
edges to look for signs of this difference, called parallax.
Hyper stereo: Anything with intercamera distance bigger than the
human eye distance (6.5 cm). Hyperstereoscopy is more suitable for HMD than for
normal shutterglasses visualization
Depending on the Mode Stereo3D images can bei stored either in normal
image formats (Analglyph) or in specials stereo formats (interlaced mode):
JPS: JPEG Stereo Format, an image in this
format constists of two images beside of each other. Example1,
Example2
If you have two images 640 by 480 pixels in size, the JPS file will be 1280 by
480 pixels in size.
You can open them, but for stereoscopic viewing you need special drivers
(Nvidia) or displaying porgrams.
PNS: Same for Portabel Networks format PNG.
BMS: Same for Windows BMP format.
VRR: Propriarity VRex Container File for DepthCharge-Viewer. Can be a still
image or a motion video file.
CrossEye – ParallelEye: A correct JPS/PNS/BMS image has the right view left
and the left view right! Nevertheless there are some tools which produce
parallel arranged JPS files. The ELSA and ASUS capture tools are doing so!
Beamers/Projectors: See also this discussion
LCD:
DLP:
CRT:
All can be used for polarized glasses, only CRT-projectors for shutter
glasses. In the projector
section you can read about different results with DLP projectors. Avoid
LCD/TFT projectors.
The reason lcds are too slow isn't because of the 60hz value. It's
because the lcds still glow slightly even after the power has hit them. With
shutter glasses, you get instant ghosting because as the new frame is being
drawn, the old frame is still partly visable. It's nice in the fact that it
keeps lcds from flickering when veiwed normal, but it stops shutter glasses
from working with them. Some lcds can fade the pixels faster then others and
don't have the ghosting problem but I'm not certain which ones can handle it.
Abstract:
This page has information about Stereo3D and Panoramic Images and should
encourage to develop, improve or use such software as standalone program or
Web-Applet.
Still missing is a PlugIn or ActiveX-Control for a browser to show panorams
in Stereo3D format suitable for shutter glasses. (See end of page!)
Contact:
Feel free to contact me or
inform me, if you are working on such an application. I’m willing to bring
together people who till now only worked in or are experts in only one of the
two fields.
User Group/Community/Message Board:
I’d like to ask all to post messages, documents,
images in the appropriate cathegores!
Contents:
1. Panorama:
a) Creation
2. Stereo3D:
I. Images
a) Creation
II. Video
a) Creation
III. Games/CAD
a) Creation
a) Creation
Panoguide Compare Hard
& Software
Forums:
Immersive
Imaging Mailing List: Pano Tools List, Archives on the web
a)
Pano Creation
Cameras:
1. Fisheye
or 360° Lenses:
BeHere
TotalView 360lens FAQ $ 1,000.-
A single-click solution to capture and create 360-degrees (lateral) 90-degrees
vertical (centered on the horizon) images on a Nikon Coolpix 880, Nikon
Coolpix 990/995/5000, Kodak 4800 and the Olympus 3040/4040 digital cameras. The
resulting image can be viewed of turning around in 360° while also being able
to look up and down.
iPix Kit with fisheye, tripod, iPix 360
Suite Software to stitch fisheye images and some pano saves $ 550.- inclusive Nikon
885/4500/5000 $ 1,450.-/2,650.-/2,050.-, additonal saves per pano $ 25 or
100 saves $ 1,000.-
Or buy a suitable fisheye lens for your camera an stich with the updated
pano12.dll and PTGui using PanoTools
Adapters for Nikon Coolpix
5000 and 5700
2. Tripods
& Mounts:
Manfrotto/Bogen Magic
Arm A travel spherical pano head
1.1kg (= 2.5 pounds)
Kaidan Heads
Kaidan Motorized
PiX-M turntable with Object Panorama DV Software $ 400,-
Accupan Panorama Image Capture System $ 240.-
usable as turnable tripods and tabletops
Peace River
Studios 3Sixty Panoramic Camer Mount
$ 645.- perhaps not usable for
tilting camera up and down
RemoteReality
OneShot360 optical attachment $ 1,000.- and
add-on 360Plus tripod bracket $ 700.- List of supported cameras Review at abcNEWS
Jasper Engineering PANORAMA *
3-D STEREO
3. Reflectors
and Rigs:
360-One rig from Kaidan $ 1,000.-
and mount kit $ 90.- Software EyeSee
360-degrees lateral 100-degrees vertical (50° above and 50° below the
horizon) for Nikon CoolPIx, Sony707 & Olympus E-20N
Article: Shooting Vr With A
One-Shot Rig
Remote Reality
OneShot360 $ 1,000.- 360Plus $ 1,600.-
List of
supported Cameras
OneShot360 has a vertical field of view of 75° below and 15° (100°)
above horizon level.
360Plus captures full 360°x360° images: Software automatically combines
four donut images into a full sphere.
SurroundPhoto Review $ 250,- for reflector incl. software and $
7,- or 6,- per shot for processing; unlimited free watermarked proof of the
scene
The SurroundPhoto reflector attaches to lens threads on most
digital cameras or on tripod. Create a panorama or VR scene on your own
computer in seconds. No stitching. This means: (1) tripod optional, (2) less
production time, and (3) no ghosts and seams. This is the only way to capture
action scenes, which cannot be stitched.
Saves as either a panoramic photo or
an interactive Quicktime VR scene.
0-360
panoramic lens attachment (100 x 360 degree field of view) $ 500.-
The attachment is designed for use with cameras which have threaded lens
attachment capabilities. The standard threads are 28mm, which fit the Nikon
Coolpix 4500, 995, and 990. Adapters are available for most other cameras. List of supported cameras
NetVision 360 Immersive Video System $ 1,000.- and 1,300.-
The NetVision 360 is a camera attachment coupled with a software tool that
enables live viewing in a 360-degree environment. Supports Axis 2120
Network Camera (resolution 640x480; up to 10 frames/sec) or IQinVision IQEye3
Network Camera (resolution 1280x960; 1-2 frames/sec).
Info about OneShot mirror
systems (German) More Info (German)
4. Turnable
cameras:
PanoCam
EUR 15.600,- SpheroCam EUR
18.600,- and SpheroCam HDR EUR 48.600,- for multirow panos in High
Desity Rage
5. Scanning
Cameras:
Probably you still need top and bottom photos,
If they turn slow, this cameras like other self turnables may have problems
with scenes with much motion in it.
Karline Digital Stereoscopic Panorama
Camera EUR 5,800.- (incl.
Karline Studio & shutter glasses)
Karline = Kamera
with a rotaing Linearsensor.
Karline (Line Camera = Scanner Camera) and Karline Studio
(editing- and publishing-software).
For stereoscopic pictures an adapter is used.
Download free Karline
Viewer (planned for Active X, Plug ln,
Direct X), a demo of Karline Studio or free StereoStripes, a program to
prepare a stripe-image from two pictures, which can used by holographic film, and
so on.
The Panorama Gallerey has an online viewer and uses anaglyphic method. You need only red/green- or red/blue glasses known
from various magazines or buy them here for €
5.0
PanoScan Mark II (MK2) $ 26,900.-
rental sevice available
SLiVR camera Professional Panorama Scanning Camera
Scanning Linear Imager for Virtual Reality
No stiching, very high resolution (8.000 px vertical).
6. PanoBots, robotized
panoramic heads made of Lego MindStorms Robotics Sytems:
Philippe Hurbain’s PanoBot
for Nikon CoolPix 990 with Fisheye made of Lego
MindStorm’s RCX
PanoBot2 made of Lego MindStorm’s Robotics Invention System
1.5
Markus Matern’s PanoBot995
for Nikon CoolPix 995 Building
Instructions Parts
List
Tutorials:
WJ's Photo Homepage Info about fisheye
lenses and photography in general
White Paper
Making Environment Maps from Fisheye Photographs
Screenshooting:
1.
One Shot panoramas of Quake in panormaic format
& FisheyeQuake: comparison cylindrical and fisheye
view
Perhaps an idea how to shoot panoramic screenshots of games. Background
2.
The game Jedi Knight 2 has the possiblity to shoot
panos automtically pressing one function key.
Tripod
Mounts:
1.
Kaiden
2.
Manfrotto
Software:
Comparison
Image Stitching Software
1. PTGui with Pano Tools Mirror for vers.2.6b1: 1 2 3, Mirror for old vers.2.5.1 $ 50,- for PTGui, PanoTools is free
Try this, if you get not good results with other easier to use software. Perfect
panos possible, even multirow panos and panos of images with little
contrast.You need plenty of time for stitching!
2. Image Assembler $ 64,-
I worked with this for a long period. Perfect for single row stiching, fairly
good for multirow stiching. No top or bottom images possible.
Mail me for tips on usage!
3. RealViz Stitcher 3.5 $ 500,- (demo only Vers.3.1)
Great software, if you have images with sufficient contrast and sharpness.
Easy inserting of top and bottom images.
Worth the money, if “stitching time is money for you”.
4. Pano2exe $ 25,-
It is intended to convert panoramic 360° JPEG images into stand-alone
executable programs. It also can create installation packages to distribute
your panoramas or images.
Converters:
1. Pano Tools
Filters and Actions for Photoshop and Gimp
Tutorial on
converting spherical PanoScan images to QuickTime VR cylindrical panoramic
movies.
2. PanoImage to
Quicktime Cubic Movie:
Panocube freeware
Converts equirectangular (jpg, tiff, bmp) panoramas or Smoothmove/iMove
.pan files to Quicktime cubic movies.
GoCubic freeware
3. FoV
Calculators:
Ken
Turkowski's Calculator for rectangular lenses
Frank van der Pol's Calculator
for fisheye lenses
Software:
1.
PTViewer
standalone application See Pano Tools Mirror for vers.2.6b1: 1 2 3, Mirror for old vers.2.5.1
2.
IiPIX Plug-in and
Viewer to view iPIX panoramas Viewer alone iPIX Java Applet
3.
Gerald Schröcker's orinal glPanorama (non Stereo3D)
glPanoram_VFX3D
Based on this player Michal Husak
added optional VFX3D/Cyberpuck navigation (HMD headtracing system).
Browser Plug-Ins:
All PlugIns are freeware, if not stated otherwise:
JAVA:
Software Comparison at PanoGuide
PTViewer Java
Applet See Pano
Tools Mirror for vers.2.6b1: 1 2 3, Mirror for old vers.2.5.1
PLUG-IN or ActiveX:
1. Zoom Viewer
(Plug-In and ActiveX) More Info Review uses .ivr
format
2. iMove
(Plug-In and ActiveX) uses .pan
format
3. Quicktime
Galleries:
Projectors:
All standard projectors for
notebooks or PCs are suitable.
Stereo3D Home Comparison of Hardware & Software, Discussion Board
Stereoscopy IMAX-Movies, Hard- and Software
Stereo3D Software:
Stereo3D Glasses:
The
different kinds of glasses
A. Page Flipping Shutter Glasses Suitable
for Nvidia Stereo3D-Driver:
I-O Displays:
H3D 100,- $ (See also NuView
Camcorder-Adapter 250,- $, suitable Camcorder needed!)
Virtual
Realities: VR-3D Glasses 65,- wired
and 85,- $ wireless
eDimensional: E-D Glasses 70,- $ wired and 100,- $ wireless
(See also 3Dvideo-Creation-Software 3Dplus with glasses: 110,- $ (inkl wired glasses) and 140,- $
(inkl. E-D wireless glasses)
ASUS: GeForce4, GeForce3 and GeForce2 Deluxe Video Card with Shutter Glasses (Glasses can only be connected to ASUS card)
VR Visualizer $ 35
Compatible to Crystal Eyes
Another EYE 2000 $ 100
Supports Wicked3D driver and maybe Nvidia driver
B. Interlaced Shutter Glasses
Ray 3D H3D glasses Gallyery
D. Anaglyph Shutter Glasses (red-blue):
E. Polarized Glasses:
See projectors
C. TELCAST 3-D:
TELCAST
3-D on VOX-TV (German)
The TELCAST 3-D recording techniques and glasses make it possible that
people without glasses can watch clear and sharp 2D and people with glasses can
watch in 3D. The glasses are colored differently for left and right. Because of
this different colors the pictures will reach at different time the sensual
zone of out eyes and two different pictures will be recognized of our brain.
Stereo3D Ready Video Cards:
Nvidia Stereo3D-Driver: I have made
good experiences with the old 12.41 driver with a GeForce2 MX. If you have a
more recent card or WindowsXP use the current drivers 30.82. Graphic Card driver and stereo diver should have same No.!
There is also a PDF-Manual!
Wicked3D Driver and glasses for viewing 3DGemes
Tutorials:
StereoVision Tutorials
Computer Gernerated Stereo3D (PovRay)
Problems with Shutter
Glasses:
How to enable Stereo Page-Flipping
for Shutter glasses in my browser? Info about OpenGL
Stereoscopic
OpenGL and NVIDIA 3D cards guide
Unofficial NVIDIA
Stereo Driver Page
SciTech GLDirect $ 20,- Review
Helps to enable OpenGL (for Stereo)
RivaTuner Download help utility for NVIDIA cards
Java3D (I reccomand OpenGL Version, Runtime
sufficient)
OpenGL Download OpenGL Setup
Forums:
3D-Brille (German)
a) Stereo3D Images Creation
Cameras:
1.
Old Stereoscopic Photo Cameras (no
digital cameras known) Rarecameras.com
2.
2 identical cameras (any type) and
Kaidan bracket Illinois State Museum
3.
Insights Spherical
Digital Video Camera
Hardware:
As most camcorders (esp. also
digital ones) can be used in photo mode, they are more and more used for
stills. See section Stereo3D Video Creation
Old Stereoscopic Photo Cameras (no
digital cameras known).
Software:
Software Guides: StereoVision
1. Stereoshop For Production for stereoscopic contents;
support many kinds of stereo mode. (Interleave, Anaglyph, Side-by-Side(Cross))
2. 3D-Studio
Max
With the popular modeller 3D-Studio Max it's also possible to create stereo
pictures and animations. All you need are two camera objects, group them an
then link them with a box-object.
3. Convert to EXE
with included viewer
Pano2Exe only for normal images and
cylindrical panos, no panning up and down
PixAround PixMaker
4. TJ3D - Stereo3D
Systems
Info on JPEG compressions:
It is a pitty that they use for this images one typical stupidity -
compressing interlaced images as JPEG. JPEG use YUV quantization
efectively averignig values from odd an even lines together ... The quality is
horribly down as the result ...
2D
(normal) to Stereo3D image converters:
1.
Z-Anaglyph freeware
Generates a red-blue composite images for 3D viewing (anaglyphs) from two
separate images (left and right).
Images can be saved as TIFF or JPG. Program is in French, but can also be
started with English menues.
2.
Anaglyph Maker freeware
Gallery
Program to make black & white as well as color anaglyphs and interlaced
images for LC-shutter glasses.
3.
3D Combine $ 34,- (30 uses trial)
3DCombine allows you to create a 3D photo from two 2D ones and output it in any
3D format you want.
Alternatively, use 3DCombine to manipulate existing 3D images including batch
converting between 3D formats.
3DCombine now includes a unique function to produce two full colour parallel
images from a single colour Anaglyph. 3DCombine also works with a wide range of
shutter glasses (ELSA Revelator and Eye3D).
5.
3D Stereo Image Factory 5 MB $ 100,-
While viewing your anaglyph in Stereoscopic 3D, you can fine tune the stereo
alignment and stereo window quickly and easily. Zoom in, out or 'Fit the image
to the Window' and you can even make rotational alignment in 1° increments,
clockwise or counter-clockwise.
Save your creation in any of these formats: JPS, BMS,
PNS or common formats: TGA, JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP
Create in these modes:
·
Color Anaglyphs Red over Left
Eye or Right eye either in Red/Blue or Red/Green Format
·
Black and White Anaglyphs Red
over Left or Right eye in either Reb/Blue or Red/Green format
·
Freeview in either
Parallel or Crosseye format
·
Interlaced in either Right 1st
or Left 1st format
·
Over/Under format
b) Stereo3D Images Publishing/Viewing
Projectors:
1.
Device to use 2 normal
projectors Panoram
2.
DepthQ Stereoscopic Projector
NTSC/PAL and Software $ 1,900.- Extreme system
requirements (XP, 2200GHz, Quadro)
It uses progressive page flipping for active shutter glasses or utilize a dual
pipeline for projected passive displays. Support also for still stereoscopic
image visualization (JPG, BMP). Chris Ward told me, that the DepthQ software
does not do panormaic images.
Shutter glass sytems don't work with LCD projectors because they are too
slow. What part of the system is too slow? One thought I had was that most LCD
projectors are locked a 60Hz. This means that each eye gets the equivilant of
30Hz and this is too slow. The only other meaning I could think of for too slow
was that the LCD pixels fade too slow after being strobed and therefore are
very ghosted.
What ever the signal is coming into the LCD there is a small delay from
the point of input to the point of output.
the processor in the glasses has no noticable delay and flickers at a
rate ofset from the LCD projector.
This is my thought I maybe totaly wrong but I believe that if you could
adjust the delay timing in the shutter glasses the same signal could be used for
the glasses as well the projector.
Someone
else told me, he gets 3D. On a 70" x 70" screen and sitting about 3
metres from the screen, images project out about 2 metres and in about 2
metres. The flicker is not that noticeable.
Software:
Software Guides: StereoVision
3.
Nvidia Stereo Viewer in the Nvidia Stereo
Driver/Utilities (DirectX)
4.
Husak’s Stereo Viewer
(OpenGL)
5.
3D Pix Stereo3D editing and
viewing software $ 30,-
Suported Graphic Cards: No Nvida exept Riva 128 !
You can save the images in about any format that you want.
The 3D Pix plug-in allows you to view these JPS images directly from the web.
The vistors on your page can view your images with LCD glasses, with Red/Green
glasses, and even with head-mounted-displays.
Can convert from one format in another (f.i. to anaglyph).
WINx3D $ 20,-
The WINx3D Interlace control gives the user the ability to put the desktop into
an interlaced mode.
6.
Sudden Depth Stereo Viewer (not XP) $ 310,-
Bowser-PlugIns:
All PlugIns are
freeware, if not stated otherwise:
1. Stereoscope Applet Gallery
You need to downlaod Java3D for OpenGL to get it working.
2. DepthCharge displays jps
files or separate jpg for left and right eye
Gallery
Anaglyph, parallel, cross-eyed, shutter glasses work.
3. Elsa-PlugIn
This was for the ELSA Stereo Drivers. ELSA got backrupt, but people who are
working with this drivers can use this plug-in.
II.
Stereo3D Video
This is not off topic, because scrolling a panorama can be taken as a kind of manual play forward or back a short digital video. Similar works the Quicktime Panorama implementation.
Hardware:
Hardware Guides: Videocams
guide
1. Nu-View SX-2000 Stereo3D Camcorder Adapter $ 250,-
Information at The unofficial
Nu-View page. Buy at i-glasses.
These System is for Atereo3D-Video, but usable for stills.
You need a camcorder of traditional “Handycam” shape, to mount the
adapter!
2. Canon 3D lens for XL1
3. Insights Stereo Video
Camera
4. Point Grey's Bumblebee with
lens stereo vision camera system
System requirements (laptop, C++ 6.0)
Software:
TriDVD Editing and displaying software
2D
(normal) to Stereo3D video converters:
1.
3D Combine $ 34,- (30 day trial)
3DCombine allows you to create a 3D photo from two 2D ones and output it in any
3D format you want.
Alternatively, use 3DCombine to manipulate existing 3D images including batch
converting between 3D formats.
3DCombine now includes a unique function to produce two full colour parallel
images from a single colour Anaglyph. There is also support for decoding and
encoding AVI video files so that you can create your own 3D videos or convert
between formats.
3DCombine also works with a wide range of shutter glasses.
2.
3D Stereo Image Factory 5 MB
$ 100,- Example
Anaglyph Video
Sequenced Stereo Image Batch Processor converted the sequenced stereo
pairs (49 ea) into Anaglyph Red over Left Eye format and created an AVI movie
file. The Anaglyph AVI movie file was then imported into ULead®
Gif Animator® to create the above animated GIF for demonstration.
4.
3Dplus Home Review Reseller Info Buy $ 50,- (or packages with glasses)
Can convert real motion pictures such as "Titanic" or "Pearl
harbour" and music videos in VCD or DVD.
Windows 98, SE, ME, 2000, NT, XP 110,- $ (inkl wired glasses), 140,- $
(inkl. E-D wireless glasses)
3DPlus does support both PAL and NTSC formats, so anyone can use it!
It is theoretically impossible to extract perfect 3-D information from existing
2-D content. However, with diverse theories and patent pending algorithms,
eDimensional has succeeded in converting 2-D content into a feeling of depth
and immersion in real time. This algorithm performs precise analysis on image
sequences to extract movement between the images. From this motion type
analysis, it determines which direction the camera or object moves, and
provides pertinent depth feeling to each objects in the image by using this
information. This algorithm can convert the image with not only the movement in
left, right, up and down direction, but also in very fast movement or no
movement at all.
Tutorials:
Michael Husak's Stereo3D Guides & Software:
- OpenGL and MGL stereoscopic viewer for JPS format
interlaced images
Try PNG instead of jpeg. Or convert to a stereo pair. For best
quality, take the raw screengrab and save it to png..
Interlaced JPEG ...
JPG=YUV 4:2:2 quantization = mixing colors from 2 surounding lines. You shuld
try to separate such jpeg back to 2 independent images to see what are you
doing. So don’t do this!
b) Stereo3D Video Publishing/Viewing
Software:
1.
Depthcharge Player Instructions Gallery
Applet for internet browser
Anaglyph, parallel, cross-eyed, shutter glasses work.
2.
Win3D Stereoscopic Video Player Same requirenments as for Winx3D: Suported
Graphic Cards: No Nvida exept
Riva128!
3.
GLSRenderer: Background, 3Dprojetion System from
Lightspeed Design
Projectors:
DepthQ Stereoscopic
Projector NTSC/PAL and Software Extreme system
requirements (XP, 2200GHz, Quadro)
It uses progressive page flipping for active shutter glasses or utilize a dual
pipeline for projected passive displays. Support also for still stereoscopic
image visualization (JPG, BMP).
a) Stereo3D Games/CAD Creation
Off Topic!
b) Stereo3D Games/CAD Publishing/Viewing
1.
For our purpose it’s only important that you can make
Stereo3D-Screenshots in the .jps format, when you are playing a game with Nvidia’s Stereo Drivers
or drivers of a stereo enabled video card.
2.
Other Stereo
Graphic Ready Cards for PC and UNIX
3.
SciTech
GLDirect: OpenGL Support for viewing Stereo3D-Games on cards, which don’t
support OpengGL originally
Tutorial
I'm trying to change the stereo settings in the Nvidia driver for the
game, when I'm playing it, but nothing happens, why?
1.
First of all, the driver
supports T&L hardware accelerated games, which are bound by the hardware,
and there is no way to change some of the settings, which are calculated in the
GPU. The 3D hardware does not permit change while working, so T&L games are
mostly WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). How do I know if it's a T&L
game? Check next question.
2.
The second issue to consider
is the time needed to press the keys, some games take longer than you expect,
for instance: Convergence: 5-10 seconds. Front/Back Plane: 10 secs or longer is
some cases.
Most Hard- Software and Tutorials
from the Panorama and Stereo3D
Image sections can be used.
a) Stereo3D Pano Creation
Creation differs very much, what source you have. Rendered images like computer game screenshot are captured in JPS format and can be stiched and edited furtheron.
Hardware:
Background
article to stereo slit cameras & Great White Paper:
For stereo panoramas we use a camera having two slits: one slit on the right
and one slit on the left. The slits, which move together with the camera, form
a single cylindrical image surface just like a single slit. The two projections
obtained on this shared cylindrical image surface are exactly circular
projections. Therefore, the two panoramic images, obtained by the two slits,
enable stereo perception in all directions.
Stereo panoramas can be created with
video cameras in the same manner as with slit cameras, by using vertical image
strips in place of the slits. In regular manifold mosaicing, each image
contributes to the mosaic a strip taken from its center. Stereo mosaicing is
very similar, but each image contributes two strips. Two panoramas are
constructed simultaneously. The left panorama is constructed from strips
located at the right side of the images, giving the left-eye circular
projection. The right panorama, likewise, is constructed fromstrips located at
the left side of the images, giving the right-eye circular projection.
1.
Karline Digital Stereoscopic Panorama
Camera EUR 5,800.- (incl.
Karline Studio & shutter glasses, laptop needed)
Karline = Kamera
with a rotaing Linearsensor.
Karline (Line Camera = Scanner Camera) and Karline Studio (editing- and
publishing-software).
Vertical angle: until 90°, because of its extra vertical angle adjustment
(incline from -30° bis +50°) of the visual axle in 10° steps it is possible to
record the sourrounding area on a complete sphere.
Min. Recording time per full-circle image: 20 s - 30 s
For stereoscopic pictures an adapter is used.
Download free Karline
Viewer (planned for Active X, Plug ln,
Direct X), a demo of Karline Studio or free StereoStripes, a program to
prepare a stripe-image from two pictures, which can used by holographic film,
and so on.
The Panorama Gallerey has an online viewer and uses anaglyphic method. You need only red/green- or red/blue glasses known
from various magazines or buy them here for €
5.0
2.
SLIVR Scanner Camera 3 x 8000px, vertical FOV 48° up to 180°
(with fisheye lens) $ 9,500.- (high
speed USB cable, captures on notebook)
System
Requirements and Lenses
The only drawback I could see to their setup was that it was slow, so basically
only good for still images.
3. Nu-View SX-2000 Stereo3D Camcorder Adapter $ 250.-
Information at The unofficial
Nu-View page. Buy at i-glasses.
These System is for A Stereo3D-Video, but usable for stills.
You need a camcorder of traditional “Handycam” shape, to mount the
adapter!
Disadvantage: Not the resolution of a digital photo camera. For panorama
shooting not ideal, because camera rotation is not in the center.
4. 2 identical
cameras (any type) and Kaidan
QuickPan Stereo Dual
Camera Bracket $ 430,- Tutorial: Illinois State Museum
Dual Camera (photo,
video) Stereo Mounting Bracket $
195.-
Twin Bars, Dual Cable Release,
Self Timer, Beamsplitter Tutorial: How to make a set-up for Reflex
Camera (or fisheye)
5. Simultan
capturing around
The rotating camera approach is suitable for creating panoramic images of
static or at most slowly varying scenes, but fails when there exists
significant motion in the environment. We are currently developing a camera
setup that will be able to capture panoramic images of dynamic scenes, in real
time, thus creating Panoramic Video.
Screenshooting/3D-Rendering:
Capturing with Nvidia GeForce stereo3d drivers (now
called: stereo3d utility):
The default, of the current pre-release
version, is 50 for the JPEG quality which is low, change it to 80 for dircet
use of screenshot or 99 if you want to edit or stich a pano (0-99, where 99 is
the best quality, all values are decimal). You have to change this is the
registry: Press Start->Run...->Type Regedit ->Browse to
HK_Local_Machine->Software->Nvidia Corp->Global->Stereo3D and
doubleclick on SnapshotQuality and change the value to the desired value, make
sure that you have pressed Decimal. I recommend to use LavaSoft RegHance for Windows registry
changes.
Background
Article: 3D Rendering
Maximum3D, plugin for 3D
Studio Max and 3D Studio Viz
To see a full screen view of your model, in stereoscopic 3D. Interact in real
time using the MAXimum3D plugin and the VFX3D Head Mounted Display.
Your models will also be portable, allowing you to send the interactive results
to your associates or potential customers.
Software:
VR Surround Editor and viewer for stereo panorama
images; supports scroll and zoom
3D-PIX for image aligment for
stereoscopic alignments (works with Winx3D driver)
Utilities:
All utilites are freeware, if not stated otherwise:
File extension
changers: zXTN
(easy to use per drag and drop), see overview of available changers at this
site
1-4a Rename (very powerfull: can
replace extension, blanks, very intersting for song files, undoo function)
File extension changers are needed to replace “jps”
with “jpg” when used for separate pano stitching.
Tutorials:
Stereoscopic
panorama with Video Camera
Quicktime Illinois State Museum QuickTime VR Panorma Authoring Tricks
Stitching
Tutorials:
Stitch the Two Photo Sets into
Panoramas Illinois State Museum
Blackrat’s
Tutorial how to stich Stereo3D-Panoramas from Unreal Tournament Screenshots
(usefull also for other games or Rendering CAD-software)
b) Stereo3D Pano Publishing/Viewing
If you use a format like Anaglyph
(red-blue glasses), a normal Panorama Viewer (e.g. PTViewer) is sufficient.
For shutter glasses no PlugIn
or ActiveX-Control for a browser is currently available, but you can make the
images (2 images: left and right) available for download. The following
standalone application can than be used for viewing.
All viewers are freeware, if not stated otherwise:
1.
glPanoram_VFX3D_stereo Gallery Article
It can load 2 jpeg images (cylindrical pano format) as source and show them in
interlaced or HW page flipped stereo. Mouse, keyboard and optional
VFX3D/Cyberpuck navigation. The images should be visualized in stereo by LCD
glasses or by the HMD headtracing system. Best viewer for shutter glasses so
far!
2.
SPISY Stereo Panoramic
Imaging System
3.
Paul Bourke's Camera File (Recording) for PovRay and his Stereographic
3D Panoramic-Player for Linux
His player displays either cylindrical or spherical panoramics and he has
something else for cubic. It supports both frame sequential stereo and what we
are now using which is passive stereo using dual head cards, double width
display with left eye on one half and the other eye on the other half.
4.
Bubble Site in French, English User Guide and Software available
It is impossible to get real stereo with the "Bubble" like software.
There is no steresocopic information in the source data, you can only shift the
weaving plane. You need cylindrical projection and much more compiliacated
source image procesing.
You need panorams from 2 cameras, you must make ekvatorial correction in
adition to imige stiching and croping.
Anyway Bubble has not the displaying problems Kube has.
5.
Kube (DirectX and
OpenGL version)
They can load the 6 images (or faces of the cube) from PNG, JPEG, or MOV
(QuickTime cubic panoramas) files.
With Kube you can often see the corners of the box.
Projectors:
PanoramTechnologies
Pano3D Converter More info on
polarized glasses
It can take the sequential left eye/right eye image stream generated by visual
super computers for active matrix stereographic viewing (computer output in
page flipping mode) and convert it to a two channel, parallel image stream that
can be sent to dual polarized projectors. Each left eye and right eye image is
buffered to display twice as long (so they are displayed together at the same
time) . This allows for passive stereographic displays using low cost,
polarized glasses.
The DpethQ software ($
1.900.-) can proces both still images and video. Implementing of panoramatic
stereo rendering modul depends on interest in this technlogy - the code is
internaly ready to do this ... If
someone has some comerical planes with stereoscopic panoramas please tell this
to Lightspeed people and Michael Husak will implement the mode.
GLS-Renderer
Module Backgrond Article form software developer Michael Husak
Headtracking
Displays:
X-Viewer/VFX3D 3DOF-tracking, high resoulution full color
Stereo3D
Note the subsection “Problems
with shutter glasses” in the introducing Stereo3D section.
Last updated:
December 2002
