Any New Tech

[ZQuickSilverZ]

I am always on the lookout for new, intresting technology. I was wondering have any of you seen anything new that is relevant to BlackShark or Lock On? Also anybody play this thing in 3d yet? Is it as cool as you would think it would be?

[TAIPAN_]

Setup 2 monitors vertically with the bottom monitor being a touch screen.

 

Then you've got an instant home cockpit :)

 

Push buttons with your fingers and flick switches.

 

I wish my touch screen hadn't died on me :(

[JasonJ]

I played BS on anaglyph 3D all weekend. Was truely awesome. Really gave a sense of how high up I was and made judgement of speed much easier, didn't hardly need to check the VSI at all, and I'm pretty newb at BS. Felt like I was really "hanging in space in a little tin can"

 

I used iZ3D drivers on XP sp3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Downsides:

• AA would NOT work at all
  
• Frame rate almost halves. But AA was off so could have been worse, went from 40-60fps down to 16-30fps.
  
• Red/Cyan vision made me feal like I'd been on medication all weekend
  
• Red/Cyan vision made me see everything in red/cyan when not wearing them
  
• Did I mention red/cyan vision was a bit annoying???111
  
• After a while you get used to the 3D effect and it starts to look 2D again... !!?? but in red/cyan vision
  

2nd Best would be to get a thumping massive 120hz LCD monitor or LCD TV and get one of those nVidia shutter glasses kits. Problem is you need to be able to generate 120fps solid. So you need a Super Computer.

 

I saw the best 3d setup I believe on youtube. Consisted of a frex dome screen and a 3D LCD projector ....

 

Still, would be sweet to have polarised projector at home...

Edited May 24, 2010 by JasonJ

[EtherealN]

Bah, shutter glasses...

Just get two projectors, aim them at the same spot, but with polarization lenses. Then wear glasses with corresponding polarization.

 

Done. ;)

[JasonJ]

Yes please:lol:

[dooom]

My peripherals Xmas list:

 

Triple Head to Go: http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/

or

SuperWide Monitor: http://gizmodo.com/341413/alienware-curved-monitor-looks-like-its-from-another-planet

 

Touchbuddy: http://touch-buddy.com/forums/faq/18-master-faq.html

 

Playseat: http://playseat.com/shop/flight-simulator/flight-simulator-chair.html

 

Buttkicker: http://www.thebuttkicker.com/

 

XKeys: http://www.xkeys.com/xkeys.php

 

... and of course... http://www.thrustmaster.com/ for a few MFD and the Warthog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oh yeah... an understanding and patient wife would be great too. :thumbup:

[JimMack]

OSTENDO at ITEC 2010

[amalahama]

Very impressive, Jim!!

 

Regards!

[Razorback]

OSTENDO screen

 

Amazing but they are completely crazy with the price : 6500 US$ !!!!!!!:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[norm]

Man this 3-D is great! I wish Real life was in 3-D! :happy:

[JimMack]

At ITEC we also used these controls. I will post more info soon.

http://www.rcsimulations.com/cadet.html

 

There is no doubt that having a collective with a reasonable length of travel improves control considerably.

[JasonJ]

If you use nvidia shutters you can use their stereo drivers and you don't need to keep the fps so high. They stay synchronized at any fps.

Yeah I know it will sync to whatever your PC is generating :) but I read somewhere a few times that if you're not getting a good 60 FPS with 3D shutter glasses then you will get a headache so you need a 120hz monitor or TV. You can get cheap 100hz 1080p LCD TVs now. 50 FPS on 3D would be ok I imagine. But I don't have expereince with shutter glasses to confirm this.

Edited May 26, 2010 by JasonJ

[JimMack]

An update on helo controls:-

http://www.isosims.com/barrpaatz.htm

[ZQuickSilverZ]

JimMack that link you provided shows everything but the price. How much is that helo set up?

 

Scratch that I see now it has not even been released yet. I bet it will be super expensive though.

Edited May 28, 2010 by ZQuickSilverZ

[71st_Mastiff]

OSTENDO $6449.00 very nice price NOT!!! :joystick: :pilotfly: