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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 3D (stereo vision) project?
Message-ID: <645@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 88 05:51:44 GMT
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Lines: 27
Keywords: Cheap Sega glasses

In the local KayBee toy store last week I saw a set of stereo-imaging
(3-D) glasses for the Sega game system. These are the liquid-crystal
shutter type (like Tektronix makes), not the cheap red-blue stuff.

The glasses were selling for about $50, and this relatively low price
got me wondering about adapting them to the Amiga. The hardware ought to
be trivial since a mere game machine is driving them, but is anyone
working on stereo vision software for the Amiga?

I know that there is a stereo CAD package for the ST, and I seem to
remember Leo dropping a hint that he was working on some kind of stereo
vision project. What I'm really wondering is if these inexpensive
glasses would make a true 3-D imaging package possible for the Amiga.

		Leo?  Anybody? 

(I hate to see the ST with something the Amiga doesn't have. :-)


PS  KayBee also had the Atari 2600 trackballs for under $10. The
hardware hacks posted by myself and others work quite well with this
trackball if you want a trackball on your Amiga instead of a mouse.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland    540 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
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