Hearing from the RealD folks

To get a projector (only some are able to work with the z-screen) and a z-box would be lots of money

again that's z-screen, and projector. And probably 500 free passive eye-wear. 'There's a lot of technology that goes into the z-screen.'

better quality product

--option 2, for more within our budget --

10 pair active eye-wear (crystal eyes 5) and DLP tv 60inch very color accurate

crystal eyes 3 older, cheaper, 15 pair

3d capable depth q the cheapest projector capable of working with this.

Coming soon from various vendors, more of $2,000 or $1,500 for projector.

Also look into pymol chemisty program molecular modeling software, shows chemistry stuff in 3d already

News article lists shutter glasses as 'inexpensive' but they didn't mention the price....

Article on DLP from indepdant website, look more into.

Another dead end..

This site had a projector that says it is single projector, passive glasses 3d. But they don't seem to sell it anymore.

Heard back about the DepthQ

Thank you for your letter. The DepthQ HD 3D projector is $(a little more than our budget) USD. Shipping and accessories (shutter glasses, emitter) are additional. The DepthQ/RealD Pro Bundle is $(a bit even more than our budget) (includes DepthQ HD 3D Projector, 4 pair CE3 shutter glasses, 1 EXXR emitter). All projectors ship from the United States.

We offer a 10% educational discount off all retail prices.

(ouch spendy)

Looking a bit at nVidia 3d ready stuff

nVidia 3d ready site has some extra details.

it looks like 3d ready refers to being able to refresh at 120 hz, for the triple flash effect. Glasses for nVidia are active...

Or they have the blue-red kind, as a 'trial' thingy.

Our current projector

INfocus lp530

Spec sheet mentions 135 hz digital or 160hz analog, as well as vertical and horizontal sync thingys.

Gonna try to pull up specs for RealD approved projectors.

Flyer

Accepted Projectors: NEC NC800, Christie Mirage HD, and Lightspeed Design HD DepthQ

The Christie is mentioned as being avaliable for about $4,000. Neither of the others seem to be for sale on the internet, I guess they are not for public purchase yet.

Grr.

Still no real specs on what 3d ready means.

My guess at this point is it has to do with speed of image writing. Vertical and horizontal speed, in Hz.

But no good solutions yet.

Met with Greg

I met with Greg today.
The goal is to find a way to use single-projector for 3d.

• Initially we'd like to use it to show 3d stuff we have already.

• Down the line we'd like to involve the CS dept stuff in 3d some how- maybe programming, maybe visiualization.
• We have 2 dlp projectors, type infocus LP530.
• We think we have a nVidia Quadro FX graphics card to work it.
• Projectors need to be '3d ready', which may refer to the 120 hz image projection speed, or maybe something else we're not sure.
• nVidia 3d vision is another system to check into.
• Greg has a language called Darkbasic for working with this 3d stuff; check into it.
• Check if our projector would work with the RealD widget,
  
• Check more if anyone else has passive glasses system for 1 projector system.