Hi all,

In Stefan Arold's group, we are currently developping a virtual reality plugin
for PyMol. It is based on the OSVR platform, and therefore should work with
OSX, Windows, Linux, Android (if you find a way to use PyMol on an Android
device !), and be compatible with any kind of 3D headset (Oculus Rift, HTC
Vive, Razor OSVR, and even the Google cardboard).

The project is available on github here :
https://github.com/StruBE-KAUST/pymolOSVR

The most annoying part is to make the OSVR server work on your system. The
next step is to launch PyMol, install this repo as a plugin, then click on
Plugin > OSVR Viewer

You may need to move your window into the headset display, if it stays on your
computer screen.

The plugin is still under development. Some features are missing, and some are
not as stable as it should be. But we keep going.

Arnaud Hungler
Software Engineer - KAUST


On Monday, 14 November 2016 02:11:43 AST Matthias Wolf wrote:
> Hi Xavier et al,
>
> I second Brian's opinion.
> We have used a 49" 4k TV, a Sony Bravia X8500B for more than a year now with
> good results. http://www.sony.jp/bravia/products/KD-49X8500B/
> There is probably an updated model of this around.
>
> Passive stereo 3D on this screen has better depth perception than the active
> stereo on the Asus VG278, although getting the parallax right is tricky. As
> Brian mentioned, the vertical position of the viewer is critical and there
> is a rather narrow sweet spot vertically, which might limit its use for a
> larger viewing room. It gives good stereo perception at a distance -
> sitting close to it can cause some eye strain in stereo if settings are not
> tweaked, but it is just a big screen! Despite the 4k resolution, the
> horizontal alternately polarized lines are still visible in stereo
> (resulting in half the vertical resolution), which is not a big deal, in
> particular from a distance. The nice thing is that there is absolutely no
> flicker or ghosting, since it does not use page-flipped stereo. But for
> modeling I still prefer the active stereo displays.
>
> In 2D mode it works great as a 4k monitor and text appears crisp - the
> exception is red, which appears blurry and at low resolution (in particular
> on blue background - this must be due to the dye matrix). It is a great
> monitor replacement with a lot of screen real estate and I would recommend
> it as such. It also comes with an integrated camera. It is connected via
> HDMI 2.0 or display port and I have tested it with both, using NVidia
> quadro K5000 and GTX980 - the surprise was that windowed stereo worked just
> fine with the (non-quadro) GTX card (this was on windows server 2012R2, I
> didn't try it on linux). I tested wincoot, pymol, chimera and Amira in
> stereo, which all worked.
>
>    Matt



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