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Yo,
After losing out on another SGI machine today I suddenly begin thinking about the 3-D features of the SGIs I have. All my machines should have stereo shutter glasses interfaces. I went on eBay and I was very lucky to find a crystaleyes ESGI emitter model that was missing its DB9 cable, not a problem this is all documented, for only $20 with free ship.  I bought it on the spot. There seems to be lots of CE2/3 glasses around so I’m going to come back to those.

Now I remember saying this along with everyone else, you have to have a CRT to do this. But I begin thinking is this still true? I was under the impression that it had to do with the refresh rate. Though I don’t exactly know how the monitor will be commanded to a new rate over VGA.  

This isn’t the biggest deal in the world to me but I thought it was a good time to just ask. Has anyone experimented with the new much faster LCD monitor gaming technology and older shutter glasses? I’ve seen a few remarks online and some people are saying when they tried it either it didn’t work at all or the timing was slightly off. Again I could believe all that, but I thought it prudent to ask the question to see if anyone had tried it or was in the position to know anything new.

Apparently what I’m reading claims that even though new LCDs can transition from one color to the destination color faster than 8 ms that the transition of that is witnessed on the glasses versus on a CRT where the element would go dark or immediately appear as the other color with no transition. So they seem to say that a whole new technique has been used to strobe the backlit in order to hide the transition of the LCD pixel. I’m curious if this is a problem with OLED which isn’t discussed. But perhaps there are no OLED monitors that transition at that speed. I haven’t bothered to look.