My creative side has rebelled against me, and refuses to come up with any more spiffy blog titles. The date it is.
Yesterday saw more equipment coming in, but not too much. Still waiting on the bigger stuff.
I brought in my Matrox TripleHead2Go so we could display on three screens from the output of one video card. If three screens are connected to multiple video cards, any image that uses 3D acceleration will only display on the 'primary' card. This is because multiple video cards do not share the same RAM, or to be more accurate, the same frame buffer. By outputting from a single video card (which typically has only two outputs anyway), a single frame buffer is used. Coupled to Matrox's way cool product, 3D acceleration can occur across three screens.
Anyway, had some difficulties getting the Matrox product working, but only because it requires a decent video board. Back to Fry's we go...
Our good friend David Ahlgren once again brought in a cool home-made network box. This one a little more down and dirty, but I liked the fact that where it lacked being pretty, it was smaller than the last unit. When you have to lug one of these things in an austere environment, weight is definitely a consideration.
We also managed to get Sean Newsome's bumblee remote-operated submersible to transmit a video signal not only to a computer, but through VSee (www.vsee.com) to pretty much any Windows PC on the planet. During the event, we should also have the means to control the unit from the SDSU Viz Lab.
...And speaking of VSee, we have Milton Chen here, its designer, who beyond being a very cool guy, has some nifty implementations of this video conferencing software that I am looking forward to seeing. One of the caviats of his presence is that when we have a problem or suggestion, he can immediately implement it into the product. This happened yesterday.
Also managed to obtain some static IP addresses from our campus network for a Tandberg dedicated video conferencing systems. This should make connecting to Indonesia more reliable.
