I can personally verify that the new Nvidia 3D Vision system on 120 Hz LCD monitors and a Nvidia Quadro FX Video Card display stereo flawlessly in Pymol, Wincoot,  UCSD Chimerica, and any other application that uses OpenGL or Direct3D as its display media within both Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Nvidia documentation says it will also work in Windows XP, but I have not tested this).  This will not work in any Linux distributions yet (as far as I am aware), but here's to hoping they develop the drivers soon.

Here are a few links:

1.  Nvidia 3D Vision Webpage:  http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Overview.html
2.  Nvidia 3D Vision and QuadroFX Video Cards: http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_pro_graphics_boards.html

Cheers, Jim

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Justin Hall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Ajit;

One of our CRT monitors broke recently, and in the context of bemoaning the loss to a friend I was told that LCD monitors will not work for stereo viewing. I understood the reason to be related to the difference in refresh rates (?), with LCD's not being fast enough so that the viewer is left seeing ghosts. The effect, which I have not seen first hand, was described to me as capable of making most hapless stereo viewers very ill, very fast. I would encourage you to plumb the depths of knowledge on this subject further, but that is my simple understanding.

Best wishes~

~Justin

Quoting Ajit Datta <[log in to unmask]>:

Hello everyone,
   Sorry for a non-CCP4 related question again. Can anyone let me know how to make stereo work on linux with Zalman monitor with Coot? Is it as simple as what we do with CRT monitors? Or do we need something else? We presently use CRT monitors on a Quadro FX 4600 graphics card. I would like to move to LCDs.

Thanks for all inputs

Ajit B.

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