Hi David, The M215W is on stock at http://www.alternate.de/html/solrSearch/toArticle.html?articleId=151410&query=zalman+3d&referer=topseller&link=solr%2Fsearch%2Fresult.productDetails
That's a German company but I suppose they also deliver overseas. We've got about 7 of their predecessors in our lab, but I am not a stereo person and cannot tell you how comfortable they are. With an NVIDIA card and the nvidia driver for linux they are essentially plug-and-play. Cheers, Tim On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:01:26AM -0400, David Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sorry, I know this has been extensively discussed, but does anybody > know right now where one can buy a zalman monitor (either the 22" or > 24", or whatever sizes they are). I am a crystallographer at an > Undergrad only university, and it appeals to me that passive stereo > devices exist for 3D viewing (active glassware is nice, but expensive > for me to maintain). I'd simply like to try one out - I'll buy it from > Europe if necessary, I'd really just like to see it and see how well it > works. With that, do we really have to buy Zalman glasses, or do movie > glasses work (I assume if they don't work that it's just an inverted > stereo thing, but that could be very wrong). > > I'm curious to hear from those with Zalman monitors, is the stereo crisp > and is it something that one can easily stare at for say an hour or so > at a time (maybe longer)? That was my main love for the emitters, in the > sense that one could stare at it for hours and your eyes didn't fatigue > or ache. I don't use stereo so much anymore due to the great > improvements in graphics by all of these programs, however, it is still > nice to do, and when teaching it's an incredible tool, but only if it > works well. > > If I get this up and running, would anybody be interested in 7 emitters > and about 16 pair of glasses (I think 10 work well, the other 6 just > need a slight repair, very cheap compared to the price of the glasses). > The glasses cost around $500 or so each (new), and the emitters are > around $100 each (that's just for reference, not something I'm > charging). I may have to get some compensation here - but I haven't > thought about that yet (I'd consider trading for 7 Zalman monitors once > I assured myself that it works). > > Thanks for you help on this. > > Dave Roberts > drobe...@depauw.edu -- -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A
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