[R] Interactive stereoscopic 3d rendering with RGL plot3d?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 20/04/2012 2:47 PM, Benedikt Orlowski wrote:
> Dear R Users,
>
> i' wondering, if there is any possibility to render interactive stereoscopic 3d plots in R and use the
> functionality of those new 3d displays (e.g. with poarisation technology) like this one:
>
> >  http://shop.fujitsu.com/de/displays/display-p23t-6p-fpr-3d
>
> Does anyone know if there are developments toward this feature? Or perhaps someone
> know how to implement such a function...
>
> Perhaps it can be easily implemented by synchronizing
> two windows with different view angles (RGL package plot3d) and send those two pictures towards
> a screen driver. But i have now idea how to realize such thing.

There is a stereo display demo in rgl (see demo(stereo)).  It displays 
linked views of a scene in two windows, then constructs an anaglyph and 
a random dot stereogram from them.  But if you can figure out how to put 
the original two windows into that fancy display, it should work.

Duncan Murdoch