From: mep@vortex5.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Palmer)
Subject: TECH: Hardware to go from a pair of X windows to stereo VR helmet?
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1992 00:47:52 GMT
Organization: caltech


My research group would like to use two X windows displayed on the same monitor
to generate stereo images for a VR helmet. I need to get from the
monitor's video, (which is a Sun 1280x1024 display running at 76Hz) to
a pair of NTSC video signals. Does there exists a black box I can buy
that will take an partial area of the monitor and output an NTSC
signal? (Then I could presumably use two of these black boxes and tell them
to look at the two areas of the screen where I will put the two
windows.) 

Does anyone out there currently do this? Or does anyone have a better
idea of how to go from two X windows to a VR helmet? Anyone have any
suggestions of hardware companies I might call to inquire?

Thanks,

Mike Palmer