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VRizer: Stereoscopic Uutput for OpenGL Programs

Posted by Hemos on from the you-just-blew-my-mind dept.

An anonymous reader writes "VRizer was developed at the Ars Electronica Futurelab to utilize conventional OpenGL games or OpenGL software for virtual reality or virtual environment setups. This is done in Linux, by creating a library that, when preloaded, intercepts the proper OpenGL/SDL calls to create 2 stereoscopic views out of 1 single frame stream. So the original software (the game) is not altered in any way.
VRizer now works best for UT2003, but a few other games were tested succesfully: FooBillard, TuxRacer, Scorched3D, Neverball, Armagetron, Trackballs. For download (binary only for now) and screenshots see the project and the website"

4 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. Quake2 by mnmn · · Score: 2, Informative

    This was reported for Quake2 a while ago. It was too blocky and the niose generated on th screen was very distracting. I dont know if these guys use softer fractal-based images but I'd keep away from this if it looks like that earlier Quake2 project

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  2. Re:Must be a different system by Bastian · · Score: 2, Informative

    This system must be a completely different project than the one you're thinking of. It doesn't use SIRDS or anything like that; it appears to allow display through either a side-by-side stereogram or a red/blue 3d image.

  3. Re:little lacking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    put a "rgstereo y" line in your vrizer.conf file, in the same directory of vrizer.so, then
    export LD_PRELOAD="./vrizer.so"
    and run your favourite game. quake and tuxracer work ok. and it's really cool.
    but will there be the source? in the readme there is a mention of a "make" step.

  4. Re:little lacking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    hmm, i see. Using the stereo features with GL_LEFT and GL_RIGHT is not yet implemented in VRizer due to lack of the proper hardware, sorry.