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Big Screen Viewing Effect For Mobile Phone Videos
Clarinase writes "Cellular phone subscribers can now view TV, movies, photos and broadband Internet content with a big screen viewing effect with Kopin CyberDisplay video eyewear from MicroOptical. This sleek eyewear allows users to privately view large-size video or pictures equivalent to a 12-inch screen as seen from three feet away, delivering crisp, full-color video with a 17-degree field of view. This eyewear is connected to a cell phone through a thin cable, and allows up to five hours of video with three AAA batteries. Since it accepts composite video input (NTSC or PAL), the eyewear can be plugged into other devices with composite video outputs such as portable DVD players."
No thanks. I'd rather have a cable that doesnt snap under any tension, especially when paying this much.
I've lost far too many earbuds and headphones due to weak cables.
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Does anyone else think that 12inches is overkill to see the number youre dialing?
You'd rather have a huge coax going to your head? If you want I'm sure you can find some conduit or whatever to run it though if you're that scared.
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And I thought people using cell phones while driving was a menace before...
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Head tracking.
It would be great to have something this small and lightweight if I could use it with games and 3D environments. My current head mounted display with motion tracker weighs several pounds.
Now I have to worry about people having a cellphone stuck to their EYE when driving?
I can just see the legislators wetting themselves now.
pictures equivalent to a 12-inch screen as seen from three feet away,
It's much better than a standard cellphone screen, but it's not what I'd call "big screen". What's more, 320x240 on a 12-inch equivalent screen promises to be grainy...
this device will fail for the same reason any number of similar devices have failed: everyone has a different set of eyes with different focusing characteristics.
Unless diopter, eye relief, astigmatism, distance to pupil are completely adjustable (making the device unacceptably expensive) this product will literally result in a big headache as your own focussing mechanism attempt to force themselves to adjust.
Five hours with your eyes focused at two inches away? No thanks.
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I think this may result in the extinction of the human race. This looks so geeky that wearer will never get a date; male or female.
The other thing it's missing is resolution. At 320x240, that's not really enough to see the visual details you'd want if you're going to play the game well.
Presumably that's part of the reason it is so much smaller and lighter than your present unit (in addition to the lack of motion tracking.)
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Doesn't any one think that 320*240 is way to coarse to watch videos on? And 12 inches at 3 feet? My screen here is 17 inches at about 2 ft. It doesn't seem "Large" to me.
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Here's the PDF press release that shows a different view of the headset and some pictures of the Samsung phone. It's in French but pretty easy to understand IMO.
As this is a PAL/NTSC input device, it'll probably work fine with other phones with video output like the Sharp 902 for viewing videos off its SD card or playing games.
You probably sat closer than 3 feet to a monitor larger than 12 inches to type that comment.
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Cameras, streaming music, web browsing, PalmOS, txt chat, games ... and now, television. But I wonder how good it is at being an actual phone? You know, the kind we use to make calls.
I was on campus for a meeting today, and had to make a call on my all-digital phone/camera/appliance. The quality was pretty bad (it would go silent for brief periods, so I missed part of the conversation.) This while I was outside, with 5 bars of signal!
When I look at all the cool stuff you can do with a mobile phone these days, I'm unimpressed. I just want something that lets me make a clear, uninterrupted phone call.
Having larger than life moving pictures in front of me makes me really motion sick.
I'm guessing that these things will have similar effects.
Monday, July 13, 2015
Ocular Biometrics and Mobile Hemogony proudly announce Private Video Viewing, an enhancement to Ocular Biometrics's patented computer-vision-lens implant techology. Private Video Viewing allows broadcast of highly-encrypted ultra-def television directly to the eye.
Friday, July 11, 2025
Bioneural Telecom proudly FDA approval of Very Private Video Viewing, a broadcast television service directly to the brain using a very small implant. Implantation takes about 15 minutes, with starting prices of $5000 per implant. Prices should fall over the next few years.
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I recently finished William Gibson's Bridge Series and have been thinking, "Why can't I have a head mounted display like those eyephones for my laptop instead of a screen?"
The answer is of course, money, resolution and power. I did, however, find one HMD that looks like it has some potential. http://www.emagin.com/3dvisor/html/LearnMore.htm 800x600 resolution,relatively low power consumption (powered by the USB port), and relatively cheap (900 bucks, out of my range, but it's better than a lot of HMDs out there).
In some ways HMD's make more sense than standard LCD screens. OLED displays for both eyes would (I think) take less power than a full 12-17 inch LCD screen, plus give you better immersion with whatever you're doing (VR desktops anyone?). If they can get the resolution on these up to 1024x768, 24 bit color, and about 500 bucks, I won't be suprised if I start seeing them around in lieu of LCDs.
"a big screen viewing effect"
/. embedding ads in the context now?
"sleek eyewear"
"large-size video"
"delivering crisp, full-color video"
"thin cable"
"up to five hours of video with three AAA batteries."
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Gee whiz, this technology has, on the whole, been around for over a decade. The Virtual iGlasses did this way back when with the same resolution (in stereo!) and optional head-tracking. I'll grant that these are about 1/4th the weight and size, and run on less power - but I seriously expected we'd have near 10x the pixels displayed from a 1cc unit clipped to my glasses frame by now, and that for about $100.
Optics just hasn't kept up with computing. Some breakthrough is needed to give a 1" display a 3' eye relief just 1/2" from the eye - and do it in 0.5oz.
Head-mounted displays are just stuck on something. Lots 'o bucks to whoever figures out and solves it.
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I've seen at least 6 or 7 different video glasses advertised since the late 90's (there's one currently in SkyMall too), but the real question for me is, are any of them halfway decent?
My primary application would be using my laptop on an airplane or at a Starbucks without having everyone around me seeing whats on my screen.
I think GOOD video glasses should:
- give me at least 800x600 res in 16bit color
- VGA, SVIDEO, and composite inputs
- simulate a screen size of at least 30"
- have option for opaque or translucent background
- not look completely ridiculous
- price point under $600
I've seen glasses that do some of the above, but I've never seen a pair that matches all of my criteria.
Has anyone had experience with devices like this? Any recommendations?