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Would You Wear Video Glasses?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the future's-so-bright dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to EE Times, an Israeli company has developed a personal video display device that looks like a simple pair of glasses. You can use these glasses with various sources, such as a portable media player or your cell phone. This technology promises to eliminate the dizziness phenomenon usually associated with this kind of display. And with these glasses weighing only about 40 grams, you'll feel that you're viewing a 40-inch screen from a distance of 7 feet." Video screens embedded into eyewear isn't that new, but the footprint of these is smaller than what I've seen before, making them cooler to wear on the subway.

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  1. Smaller? How about improved resolution. by ergo98 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I remember seeing glasses video displays this small a decade ago. Of course the problem with them then, and even now, was resolution: The resolution was so terrible that it has limited uses, seriously degrading even the already low quality of television.

  2. Mind the Gap by datafr0g · · Score: 3, Insightful

    making them cooler to wear on the subway.

    Because it's cool to wear shades underground.

    :-)

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  3. I will only do it until I need glasses... by bananahead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I worry about the long term effects on the eyes. You are constantly focusing on sonething only an inch or less from your eye, and the eye strain might have a negative effect over time. Remembering Steve Martin's movie 'The Jerk' where a device designed to keep your glasses from slipping down your nose eventually made everyone on the planet cross-eyed, I would use this but definitely limit my time.

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    1. Re:I will only do it until I need glasses... by vialation · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The projection onto the lens will be at a focal length that is much longer than an inch. So just because you are looking at something an inch away, you're not focusing at an inch. Very much like if you get close to a mirror, and look at the objects that are behind you in the mirror. The image is a few inches away, but the objects are that few inches away plus the distance between the mirror and the objects. It's perfectly safe.

  4. I Can Hardly Wait ... by richg74 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Gee, this is really great -- but forget the subway. I'm a cyclist, and I have a "collection" of cool things I've seen people do to take their minds off the boredom of driving, including:
    • Shaving or putting on makeup
    • Reading the paper
    • Using a laptop placed in the passenger seat
    • Turning around to smack the kid in the back seat
    But my personal favorite is the guy I saw playing the trumpet.

    I can hardly wait to enjoy dodging the guy who's using these to watch, say, the fighter chase inside the Death Star from Star Wars.

  5. Yes please by pesc · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If this means...
    • The size of my laptop can be reduced to the size of the keyboard
    • The weight of my laptop can be reduced significantly
    • The battery time can be extended since the wearable display uses less power than the LCD backlight
    • The cost of the whole laptop can be cheaper since massproducing a micro-LCD device should be significantly cheaper than producing an 12 - 17 inch LCD.
    • I can get a laptop with a 30+ inch display in a format more compact than a 12 inch laptop.
    ... I can hardly wait! Bring it on!

    And to those of you who wouldn't dare using it in public because of the fear being mugged: I hope the mass production of these devices would make them as common as the earplugs everyone is using with their MP3-players nowadays.
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