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Wearable Displays?

Posted by Cliff on from the looking-for-options dept.

tolan's my name asks: "I am currently looking at designing and building my own wearable. I'm looking at using some sort of ARM processor, some basic voice command recognition, and so on. The real bugbear at the moment is the display. What I'm really looking for is a single eye HUD, so as I can actually wear the thing and function normally (as normally as one can while looking like a Borg). I was wondering if anybody on /. knew of sources for this sort of display and if anyone had any experience of using them. More generally any experiences or links concerning wearables in general would be appreciated, though not ones using the PC/104 hardware platform."

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  1. High cost n wonderful? or cheap n cheerful? by quick_dry_3 · · Score: 2
    I'f you can afford it, the M2 from tekgear.ca it looks great - though VERY expensive US$3.5k . Full VGA, maybe SVGA and with a look-through/translucent option.

    If you can't stretch to the M2 then the least obtrusive of any display is from MicroOptical Corp who make either tiny clip-on's which do QVGA (compress a 640x480 down to 320x240) and are VERY small, the other model is the integrated eyeglass - it looks just like prescription glasses. These are available now.

    The inviso eShades that have had stories run on here are likely to hit market at around US$1000, the advertise in their press releases that it will be about 400-500, but after recent inquiries the price keeps rising, last I heard it was upto 800+. Don't hold your breath.

    For displays NOW, unless you can build your own driver electronics - FPGA use is what people are looking at for n=building the driver logic from.

    I'd go with an M1, fairly cheap (As far as HMD's go) and well tested and known amongst the borg community. They can be hacked to fir into sunglasses with a lil bit of effort. For colour, most people go the hacked glasstron route.

    see wearables.los-gatos.net for a comprehensive listing of most things wearable.

    for arm based architecture I'd imagine you'd checked out the LART pages, but there is also an ARM based effor at MIT, its called mithril I believe, and the PLEB effort in Australia.

    Hope that helps