Before I die, I want the visual-tactile experience of turning a sphere inside out with my (virtual) "bare hands". Jim Propp On Thursday, May 1, 2014, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
I haven't tried them myself, but I've seen references to 3D "viewer" programs that run on Windows that will display objects that can be viewed with those cheap 1950's red/green cardboard 3D "glasses".
These take advantage of the graphics hardware, so you can rotate & move the objects to be able to view all the different sides.
I found out about these when I was looking into 3D printing & ".stl" format files, so you might be able to Google STL viewer programs.
Obviously, you can't use these for full color, but they are a lot less than $300!
At 01:24 PM 5/1/2014, meekerdb wrote:
On 5/1/2014 6:42 AM, Guy Haworth wrote:
Here at the University of Reading, we have an 'immersion room' giving the full 3D-experience in which one can 'walk around' 3D-models.
You can buy 3D googles (e.g. Occulus Rift) that allow you to view 3d objects from all directions ($300). So far your movement is via video game controllers, so you don't have the exact experience of "walking" around, but that could be added pretty easily. I've tried an early prototype (my son creates 3D games) that used lower resolution, but it's pretty impressive.
Brent Meeker
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