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Where Are the High-Res Head-Mounted Displays?
vivian writes "Ever since 1996, when I first set eyes on a Sony GlassTron head-mounted display in Japan, I have been awaiting a lightweight, head-mounted display that actually has decent resolution and doesn't look like a brick tied to your face. The closest contender to date seems to be the WRAP 920AV from Vuzix, and they are partially transparent too, which is great, but as with every other unit I have found, they only offer video quality — 640x480. Given that there have been a number of other discussions on Slashdot, I can't be the only one here who is eagerly awaiting something that could actually be a viable alternative to a PC monitor — especially for gaming or 3d graphics work. Perhaps we could petition a manufacturer to make what we actually want? Something with a minimum of 1024x768 @30-60hz refresh, say, and capable of stereo vision. Extra karma if they incorporate head tracking."
Why spend thousands of dollars smooshing a high resolution display to your face when you can blow up a flatscreen to epic proportions and get all the resolution you need?
Well, as someone who's been waiting for an affordable HMD that I can use for an augmented reality project I've been thinking of starting, let me just ask you one thing: How would I go about mounting a 50" LCD monitor or a projector + screen on my head in a way that doesn't make result in me constantly falling over?
/Mikael
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4
If falling over is the reality your trying to experience, I'd say your all set!
Dammit, I want my Terminator HUD explaining objects to me as I look at them.
That crunching sound? Oh, that's the sound of you crushing MY WILDEST DREAMS.
I feel that to bring up motion tracking blurs the line between VR and a more mundane wearable display. I could see countless uses for a wearable display.
/. have other people in their rooms)... and i guess it might be fun to be able to watch pr0n with no one around to be the wiser.
For instance the ability to watch/play with out disturbing anyone else in the room (yes some people that read
I demand my pr0n glasses!
While that would be cool for us, it was really pretty ridiculous for the use it was given in the Terminator movies. I mean, come on... the most efficient way to get information from a cyborg's archives into working memory is by displaying it in English in the visual field? In the peripheral vision, no less?
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
One word: Counterbalance.
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The headmounted displays were accidently left in the flying cars in parking lot of the lunar hotel.
> I have been awaiting a lightweight, head-mounted display that actually has decent
> resolution and doesn't look like a brick tied to your face.
It will still look like a brick tied to your face but it will be from Apple so it will be cool.
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in the trunk of my anti-grav car parked in my luxury mansion orbiting Uranus.
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Especially the constant reviewing of commented 6502 source code for reading and writing to floppy disks by track and sector! Why possible purpose does it serve to be reading that while shooting up a police department?
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
That's the deal before any surgeon touches my eyes: if I can't get night vision, thermographic imagery, zoom and a HUD, nothing gets done.
To hell with laser surgery, I want cyber-eyes.
You're not old until regret takes the place of your dreams.
He's obviously got some extra CPU cycles to burn.
Hmmm ... So Skynet started as a DeFragging tool that moved on to become a Fragging tool? Neat!
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Sure, but it would also provide inspiration for epic conversation lulz.
So, John, I ran into Janet the other day at the pagan sex festival, where she and your wife performed unspeakable acts on a pentagram. Care for a smoke?
Or, alternatively: So, John, I herd u liek Christ, so I put some 'body of Christ' into the body of Janet.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I'm not sure about you, but at that low a refresh my eyes would walk right out of their sockets and donate themselves to science in protest.
Which, in foresight (heh) would be proceeding the rest of the body by only a few hours if I was lucky enough. By dying horribly in one of the following ways: flattened by a Hydrogen powered bus for wandering into traffic, skating right off the skytrain platform and falling the 60 meters or so to my doom or rolling onto the train right-of-way and becoming instant mincemeat. All because I was checking my daytimer and was too airbrained to realize where I was roller-blading.(obtuse old telus ad reference, I *hated* that ad.)
-m
-Magdalene --"there are 10 types of people in the world, those who read binary, and those who don't"
Uhura
He's obviously got some extra CPU cycles to burn.
What, he couldn't spare a few for SETI@Home?
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
That kind of visual augmentation became real popular I think starting in the 60's. I think it was call PCP? Not to be confused with the more recent mobile device PSP.