LINUX Supported

Hi everybody,

I've just realized that my latest announcement to the linux-uvc-devel mailing list is awfully old. I had to do something about it, and I'm pleased to announce that the Linux UVC driver now supports the Minoru3D stereo camera.

The Minoru3D (http://www.minoru3d.com) is a cute, anthropomorphic device made of two UVC cameras mounted in a single case and spaced roughly the same distance apart as human eyes to get a stereoscopic effect.

The latest Linux UVC driver supports streaming from both cameras simultaneously at 30fps (up to 320x240) or 15fps (up to 640x480). You can download it from the Linux UVC Mercurial repository
(http://linuxtv.org/hg/~pinchartl/uvcvideo) or wait for Linux 2.6.30.

Please note that anaglyph (pseudo-3D image with red and blue or red and cyan components), "picture in picture" and "side by side" output provided by the Minoru3D driver on the Windows platform is not supported at this stage. This is an excellent opportunity for all of you to get into V4L2 application development and write a nice anaglyph Linux application :-)

I would like to thank Promotion & Display Technology for helping the Linux UVC driver development by providing both hardware samples and technical information.

Cheers,

Laurent Pinchart

We would like to thank Laurent for all his hard work in making this possible.