From: bkuo@girtab.usc.edu (Benjamin Kuo)
Subject: Re: Interfacing Mattel/Nintendo PowerGlove to Macs?
Date: 22 Nov 90 03:53:26 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA


In the same line, has anyone had any success with the schematics/docs about
hooking up the Nintendo 3D vision glasses that floated out on the net
about a half a year ago? A friend of mine was able to rig it up to do
3D, still (ie simple objects like boxes, etc.), but has no software
to take advantage of the LED screens (ie dual screens for each separate
eyepiece).  I imagine you could get quite impressive 3D action by defining
two screens for each eye and manually do animation in a program (I believe
John Calhoun, the programmer of the Mac games Glypha, Pararena, and Glider
also did a one-screen 3D game...).

It seems that this should be an "easy" addition to the Mac, since all it
involves is a bit of wiring and software. Even just playing with blue/red
glasses and a Mac II (w/Videoworks) significantly makes for a more "real"
environment.

We had the idea of a "3D Finder", where alternate screens would shift
certain images the proper pixels/colors to achieve 3D windows, maybe a
3D mouse (left-right, up-down, back-forth).

Also, if anyone has the complete text to those schematics/etc. could they
please mail me? Thanks.

Benjamin Kuo