Case 4: Driving the Sensis high ef HMD

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The Sensis head mounted display consists of 8 displays, 4 per eye and independent displays in order to support stereoscopic propjection. As such the controller that comes with the device expects 8 VGA signals as input. This was achieved with two dual port graphics cards, each card drives one display from one port and three displays with the other port by employing a Matrox triple-head-2-go box. The result is a stereoscopic display with a wide peripheral vision at a resolution of 3200x600 pixels per eye (each display on the HMD is 800x600)..

Screen dumps showing display layout

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Hardware

Mac Pro, dual ATI X1900 graphics cards, two Matrox triplehead2go video boxes. Sensis HMD with 4 displays arranged in a twin 4x1 matrix (one 4x1 matrix per eye).