Hello, I've successfully done a few tests using Chrome and WebGL to render two images side by side and having the TV compose the images into stereoscopic 3D. I don't know why there was a notion that one needed to send special HDMI commands. Well perhaps to reach full 1080p these commands might be necessary, although it looks like most TVs can figure out what to do if they are given the right modeline and I feel that these special HDMI commands may simply be cosmetic after reading 2010_03_04_3DExtraction_HDMI_Spec1.4a.pdf and only necessary if you want to do something out of the ordinary.
Currently the display hardware is vary far ahead of the software and frankly it's unavailable for novices like myself. While my tests were conclusive using different shapes altogether in each eye, I was unable to line things up to my satisfaction to produce anything usable. I just got really board with this project because of my skill level.
One area I find interesting is that we will once again have a half frame, as the technology of my set uses shutter glasses it would seem appropriate to render things in a fashion much like what's done for interlaced content. In that an object moving horizontally would be drawn in 2 places for each eye so that the position of the object is consistent for when the user sees it.
I'm looking into upgrading to a 4K set, now that they are affordable... I plan to sit right up next to it and use it like any other monitor, so I'm not concerned about that oddly irrelevant debates that those resolutions are not usable. It's like a web developer refusing to accept anything greater then 800x600, ppl should just move past there preconceptions an opinions... That said the TVs I'm looking at use another technology that uses even and odd rows for each eye, so the previously mentioned half frames are out and we bring in a concept similar to sub-pixel ordering which while not offering any great challenges or rewards it may produce a loss in quality if not handled correctly.
It's clear that to fully support these technologies a great deal of work would be needed. Leaving one vary big question worth asking...
What's important and what course of action are ppl thinking?
Currently Gnome has a UI for tweaking font rendering. How, if at all, should stereoscopic hardware be configured? Especially with regard to technology type and perhaps future displays capable of multiple technologies? There are also glassless stereoscopic technologies as possibilities.
I'm most concerned with what ppl are waiting for, I've moved from a CTR to this rig because I didn't think till now that there were any displays that were fast enough for me. That and I noticed that I rarely used the interlaced modes to deinterlace content made for TV. Now with 4K I can finally have big size and high resolution, it'll be nice to have two 55" displays side by side.