09 February 2010 | Print page | 
First TYTEC StereoWizard Stereomicroscope Delivered
Faculty of Biology of Munich University first customer of TYTEC’s stereomicroscopy system. StereoWizard uses 2 HD-Resolution Prosilica GE1910 cameras from Allied Vision Technologies.
TYTEC GmbH of Jena, Germany, delivered its first StereoWizard-equipped microscope to a research team of the Faculty of Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. The team led by Prof. Wanner will use the high-resolution stereomicroscope to prepare samples to be further analysed by the faculty’s AURIGA scanning electron microscope (SEM). Other implementations such as chromosome analysis are currently being investigated by Prof. Wanner and Mario Türschmann, founder of TYTEC and inventor of the StereoWizard system.
StereoWizard is an innovative stereomicroscopy solution that captures images of a standard stereomicroscope and processes them to be displayed on a 3D monitor. Two HD-resolution Prosilica GE1910 from Allied Vision Technologies are fitted on the microscope and deliver a video stream for each eye. The StereoWizard software processes the images in real time to display them on a 3D monitor. Scientists can observe the high-resolution stereoscopic images with 3D glasses in a more comfortable and communicative way as more than one person can watch the image at a time. The 3D images can be stored to be archived or compared with other experiments either visually or by a machine vision algorithm.
The TYTEC StereoWizard was demonstrated as a prototype on Allied Vision Technologies’ booth at the Vision Show in Stuttgart, Germany, in November 2009. With the University of Munich deal, it has now entered its active marketing phase.