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The iZ3D Driver is Going to Become an Open Source Project

MTBS3D is reporting a very interesting news regarding the iZ3D driver, it seems that the company developing it  of the project to the stereo 3D community, making the iZ3D driver open source. There is no official announcement about that available yet on iZ3D’s website, but it is supposed to follow very soon, so stay tuned for more information. This is definitely good news as it should allow the stereoscopic 3D community to continue the further development and improvement of the code of the software…
According to Vadim Asadov, iZ3D’s VP of Business Development, their stereoscopic 3D drivers will be made available as open source for gamers looking to adjust and optimize for new games and future technologies. The resulting software will be free to use by everyone, and should be available in about eight weeks.
iZ3D has been silent for quite a while with new releases of their driver, the last official version 1.12 of the driver was made available on October 23rd, 2010 and the last beta 1.13 RC was released on June 15th, 2011. Back in august last year, on iZ3D’s blog there was a publication hinting that there are going to be some changes in the company, but we did not expect that they plan to make their stereoscopic 3D software an open source product. Let us see how this goes in a few weeks when the source code is made available, hopefully this will help the constantly growing stereoscopic 3D gaming community as the iZ3D driver is quite powerful and offers a lot of advanced features already. And hopefully it will put some more pressure to the other companies developing such solutions in order to bring more features faster and to allow more control to the users, so that the stereo 3D community can also contribute better in the future development of those as well.
Update: The official announcement is here with a little extra requirements, it seems that iZ3D is going to try and raise funding from gamers for the release of the driver as an open source product. And while this isn’t such a bad idea, going for a minimum of $150 from user is very limiting and the goal of $800K is also quite high, so at this point the success of this initiative seems a little vague.
iZ3D OSC Program
Starting on April 9, 2012, iZ3D will accept payments of $150.00 US dollars to convert the iZ3D driver code into an Open Source Project. Multiple payments are accepted. Your $150 payment contributes to providing the user community with access to iZ3D Universal Driver under GPL at the time the iZ3D Driver Software is converted to Open Source status. As soon as the total amount of payments will reach US $800,000, the entire iZ3D driver code will be opened and placed on www.iZ3d.com under GPL license.
However, in case iZ3D will not reach the above targeted amount, prior to June 30, 2012, the company will decide one of two options:
1. Open the code even though $800,000 are not reached
2. Cancel Open Source Project and refund all received payments
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