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Can anyone still buy a passive monitor or TV? I have not had luck finding any. Yong From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of mesters Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 11:58 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3D viewing room options Hi, Indeed there are many options to pick from... Passive TVs are cheaper and the glasses more comfortable to wear and viewing hardly causes headaches but you pay a price; less resolution, a dark picture, and less vibrant colors. Also, only a limited number of people can watch (best is, they are seated in front of the TV at double the distance of the screen). Passive beamer systems are too expensive requiring 2 beamers and 2 polarizers (as can be found in many cinema halls for showing 3D movies). Active TVs are more expensive (especially the glasses) and may cause headaches. Also here, only a limited number of people can watch (viewing experience is angle dependent). Active 3D beamers (may cause headaches too) come in several flavors for driving the shutter-glasses; radiofrequency (1), infrared (2) and white flash (3). For variants 1 and 2 you are going to need a strong emitter (to flood the room with a signal) and expensive glasses (>100 $ per pair). If you plan to install variant 1 or 2, make really sure to purchase a beamer with a 3-pin stereo out socket in order to be able to connect the IR or RF emitter! Another option is HD3D (Blu-ray 3D stereo; 1080p@24Hz) using a nvidia GT (able to handle HD3D) or a GTX card: Pymol will work (3D) with such a configuration but Coot will not (at least I could not get it to work in 3D). We have variant 3 installed; a cheap quadro (K420 or K620 will do just fine), 20 high quality shutter glasses (65 $ each and you are not bound to one brand) and, a short-throw 3D beamer in order to display a large enough picture in a smaller room as the 3D experience increases with width of screen. Make sure the beamer is able to produce at least 3500-4000 lux (otherwise the picture will be too dark) and beamer/glasses can handle 144hz. In many (high-)schools you will nowadays find this kind of 3D solution. Our system, 720p@120Hz (which I would like to upgrade to 1080p@144Hz), works under Linux and Windows just fine (great 3D experience :-) ). Jeroen Am 04.02.16 um 15:19 schrieb Joseph Batchelor: We plan to set up a 3D viewing room and we hope the community can tell us positive or negative experiences so we can get a great setup. The purpose of the room is to share our models in 3D with our non-SB colleagues such as medicinal chemists. There fortunately are a lot of good options these days, and we are not sure what are pros and cons of these options for SB work. Specifically, thoughts on how a 3D projector compares to a large passive or active 3D TV for pymol viewing sessions would be greatly appreciated. -- Dr. math. et dis. nat. Jeroen R. Mesters Deputy, Senior Researcher & Lecturer Program Coordinator Infection Biology<http://www.uni-luebeck.de/studium/studiengaenge/infection-biology/introduction.html> Institute of Biochemistry, University of Lübeck Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany phone: +49-451-5004065 (secretariate -5004061) fax: +49-451-5004068