Sol7 (ImmersaView) Commitment to supporting this community

[farrokh747]

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

[MarkusPilot_com]

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

[Goldmember]

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.

[jmig]

Tried various ways to get the visuals going....

...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.

...

Mark
YSSY www.markuspilot.com

What IS the price for this software?

[Goldmember]

What IS the price for this software?

Andy in his original posting says:

- 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.

[Prof Bill]

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.

[BHawthorne]

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.

[Goldmember]

That's EUR 246,76

[Tomlin]

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.

[PaulEMB]

Andy,

Thanks for your support to our community! Add me to the list of future customers!