I'm currently in the process of putting together a new machine for myself (I currently have the case and a DVD drive, hehe, most of the crucial parts will come next month). One of the things I want to be able to do with it is dabble in stereoscopic 3D (or "virtual reality" if you will) for various art projects.
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Basically, I'm looking for a set of HMDs that can do stereoscopy in "any" game engine (thinking of using the Blender engine, which seems to have some sort of support for stereoscopic rendering in its settings, although I'm not sure if that's relevant). Built-in head tracking and some sort of simple SDK that would let me implement it would be nice as well, although I guess I could build my own accelerometer if it came down to that... Oh, and my main OS will be Linux, so it would be nice if it worked in that, although there's nothing preventing me from booting into Windows I guess.
I've mostly been looking at the Vuzix VR920 since it's cheap-ish and has built-in tracking which someone seems to have hacked together a Linux driver for. People seem to prefer the eMagin Z800, which seems to have the same features with a nicer and bigger display, at the cost of a higher price and worse Linux support.
I guess both of these require pre-series 8 nvidia cards, right? Unless I want to try the hacked drivers for Windows. Does anyone have experience using either of these with the official nvidia drivers under Linux?
At first I thought I had to get an nvidia Quadro card, since (most of) those have something Wikipedia calls a "Stereo display" feature, but I guess that's not the case? Can anyone tell me what that would be, since I'm feeling a bit confused.
Thanks
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