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Matt Olieman
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You're correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by voucher76
Matt Olieman
Hi all,
If you want to see how Sol 7 is performing in my home cockpit, take a view in the photo gallery. You can find pictures in the members section at PDG_737. Album is called: building a fllightdeck 737. Pictures no 9, 10 and 30 show the setup and the results.
I have a 7.5 ft curved screen (aluminium and cheap foamboard) and a wide throw projector at a distance of 7 ft from center screen.
PDG_737
Looks really good.
What are the specs of your projector
Jack
bump...sorry
Does anyone have Sol7 running on a 64bit operating system(XP, Vista, W7)?
Nat
Specs projector: DLP, native 1078x768, 2500 ansi lumens, contrast 1:2500 and most important: a throww ratio of 0.6 : 1. So for a 10 ft wide image you need 6 ft distance between projector and screen. Perfect for a small space.
More details on the optoma website under EX525ST.
PDG_737
We have decided to go with ImmersaView's Sol7 for visuals over three projectors for the sim.
I have just found out that our local Police Air Wing are using Sol7 to project onto a 40 foot (wide?) screen for their training purposes. No other info and definitely no pictures allowed at this stage. Mate of mine and BIG sim builder saw it in action.
Peter.
Hi Guys,
I had a meeting yesterday in Sydney with Andy and Alex from Immersaview the makers of SOL7.
They were installing a 180deg setup on a commercial simulator at a flying school, I was very impressed with the whole SOL7 concept. and ordered the Software on the spot.
This is such a great deal, that I am sure it will not last. This software is a massive discount on the comercial product that these guys sell, so if you want it or are thinking of getting, I would do it it now.
I will be installing a 3 projector setup on my sim in the next 6 months (very hard with full motion) using the SOL7 software.
As I said guys, "if it looks to good to be true" go and get it now, so we can all support Immersaview to keep developing this great software for the Homebuilders.
Hi Matt - yes, the product is great - i just have to decide between THTG and Wideview - looks like it's going to be WV - I guess this means 3 x installation licenses...!
Just ordered 3 projectors = Hitachi CPX5 's - these have a slightly wider throw than the standard -
Cheers
fc
Tried various ways to get the visuals going.
The new sim room in in my garage = 2.7m x 4.1m
Plenty of width ( 4.1m ) but short in length ( 2.7m )
The solution for me ( not necessarily for you ) was short throw projectors.
Tried the flat screens - good but could do better.:)
Curved Screens - fantastic in size but image really is distorted.:(
Enter SOL7 .. problem fixed.
Fantastic result - now I have almost 5.0m of vision in a curve around the sim room.
Price might seem high but this is really LOW compared with commercial rates for this type of software.
The price offer to the flight sim community is a huge discount to simmers.
Once you get it up and running, you'll never go back to flat screens.
Mark
YSSY www.markuspilot.com
I wonder if dome projection could be feasible for sim applications. In the end, at the $ 40 million level-d simulators, you see a dome segment in front of the sim. My idea is to mount a spherical mirror on top of the sim (or on the floor) and 1 projector that projects in the mirror. The screen would really wrap around the sim like a dome, something like this: http://tinyurl.com/mcs2y5
- what would be the minimum radius in order to prevent the sim throwing shadows on the screen?
- can Sol7 correct enough? See the photo with caption "Molecular simulations from VMD" in the link above; you can see the computer monitor next to the dome and how extremely the image is distorted.
What IS the price for this software?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkusPilot_com
Andy in his original posting says:Quote:
Originally Posted by jmig
- pricing would be in the region of 350-400 USD per PC with one full year of email support as well as immediate access to all minor and major upgrades
- optional upgrades and support beyond the first year at $50 per annum to stay up to date with current versions
But that posting is from jan 2008, so I'm curious as well.
SOL7 is an excellent product and is very good value indeed!
When I was looking at "edge blending" I found the following site.
Distortion correction was and still is a factor that causes minor irritatation for me because of the types of experimental screens I play about with.
I guess once you notice these little imperfections it is hard to reprogram your mind in a way that you can ignore them!
http://orihalcon.jp/projdesigner/
http://orihalcon.jp/download/osgdistortviewer_src.zip
Bill.
Those that haven't done the math recently, I looked about 6 months ago and it was around $440 USD. With the current exchange rate it's down to around $350 USD. I guess it paid for me to wait on the purchase till now. I purchased it yesterday. Sort of surprised me that Australian currency is doing worse off than US currency at the moment. ;)
That's EUR 246,76 :-)
Hi guys
Nat, what are (were?) the specs on the machine that you had issues with FPS regarding the NicD 5-window method? Also, was this for both FS9/X or just X (the performance issue).
My specs are AMD x2 64 3.2 Ghz cpu w/ 4 gigs of RAM and 9800 Nvidia w/ 512 RAM, Windows XP home.
Andy,
Thanks for your support to our community! Add me to the list of future customers!
I'm a new user too. Just got the home-sim licence. Great program. Thanks to all at Immersaview.
Sean
Hey Eric,
The rig I had the TH2Go on was a Q9550 OC to 3.83GHz, 4G DDR2 RAM, GTX 280 and WD VElociraptors...
Iwas getting good FPS with a single forward view, but the 5 undocked views were just too hard on that machine.
Of course a current i7 CPU (overclocked) will help you, but I think you will struggle with your current machine.
Cheers mate,
Nat
I have two mitsubishi HC3800 Projectors and I want to run them together on a curved screen. However, I have no idea where to buy an affordabe curved screen and if they are not affordable then I will have to build one. Does anybody have some plans, specs or recommendations for me if I have to build a curved screen?
I think Sol7 Immersaview will be the most cost effective route to go that will allow me to edgeblend two projector screens on a curved screen.
I have a small 10'x10' room to work with and I came up with this drawing, based on what I know of the HC3800 stats. However, I would appreciate it if somebody that is better with cad could come up with better specs for me!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ectorroom1.jpg
Here are the specs of the HC3800 at a 10' throw
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ectorroom2.jpg
My computer specs are:
Intel 980x
Sapphire 5870 Toxic 2GB
12 Gigs DDR3 2000 Dominator Ram
Windows 7 64 bit ultimate
And this is my ultimate goal!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ble2screen.jpg