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Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ripe-for-the-hacking dept.

nerdyH writes "A new Linux-based portable media player (PMP) features an eyeglass-like head-mounted display with 800 x 600 resolution. Dreamax's Indicube i-800 PMP provides an experience similar to sitting two meters away from a 54-inch screen, the vendor claims. It uses an 0.44-inch eMagin OLED display, claimed to offer the smallest pixel pitch in the industry."

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  1. 54" screen is well and fine by Zerth · · Score: 5, Informative

    But can it give me the equivalent of 17" CRT at arms length?

    Whenever I see these, I think "yay, monitor replacement" until I find out that, like most of them, it is just as fuzzy for reading text as a regular TV.

  2. ... finest pixel pitch may not be good by dsojourner · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've worked on micro display projects before --- and you don't want the pixel pitch getting too close to the wavelength of light -- which will be around 1/2 micron. Pixels smaller than a micron or so will result in dispersion of the light that is generated, limiting the quality of the image.