12-23-2002, 05:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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A Display in Your Glasses
"Head-mounted displays, which project miragelike computing screens, have yet to be runaway hits. That's partly because they make you look like a telemarketer wearing a helmet about as inconspicuous as a pair of fake antlers. Massachusetts-based MicroOptical Corp. is taking a new approach, fitting projectable-display technology into standard eyeglass frames...A tiny LCD in one temple generates high-resolution, 24-bit text, graphics, and video, viewed through optics hidden in the lenses. The display is projected in front of users, right in the middle of their surroundings, as if they were watching television."
Cool! HUD displays without the major geek factor! This makes me wonder though - how many of us wear glasses? Or even if you didn't need glasses, would you wear a device like this for the functionality and use plain glass or plastic for the lenses?
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12-23-2002, 05:14 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 717
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Why does it not surprise me that majority of people here wear glasses. I have had my spectacles since I was 2 right there and then I knew I was destined to become a Turbo Geek, what are your excuses?
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12-23-2002, 05:15 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 1,185
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Does it come in the "Featherweight" line up? Or will they be slipping down my nose all day? :lol:
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12-23-2002, 05:18 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 1,023
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Despite spending the vast majority of my life starring at the computer screen, my eyes are A-ok. Surprises me, but I'm kinda glad.
Oh, and I crack up each and every time I see the "haircut" option. :lol:
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12-23-2002, 05:31 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,768
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embedded into eye
I am waiting until they can embed this technology into our eyeballs. :P
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Jonathan (JonnoB)
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke
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12-23-2002, 05:45 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 416
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I want the eyeball option, I can just imagine loading my glasses up more and more with technology, greater increasing the gravity quotient that my glasses already have. When given a chance my glasses will try a lens down landing approach, when I put them on a surface indifferently(the chance increases the more scratch potential the surface has).
At some point I'll get the radial laser surgery to get my eyes corrected, I just haven't worked up the nerve for it. I'd like the bluetooth(or later) retina display option when I do.
Edward
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12-23-2002, 06:00 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 67
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I've been looking for one
I wanted one for a while now. I do not wear glasses either and I have a better vision than normal people  Kind of sad really since I use my computer in the dark, watch TV the same way etc.
But if this technology is only cheaper with good resolution, I'd go buy it the next day.
Lwin
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12-23-2002, 06:12 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 170
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My question is... is this image 1 inch (or less) in front of your eyeball really comfortable to see? Would you stay with it 1 hour on the train browing, doing work or seeing a movie?
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12-23-2002, 06:16 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 110
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Not Realistic but COOL
Ok!, Nifty little gadget but not for the mail stream of reality. I think that most people would get something like that for a fun little toy to be cool; and after all it is really kind of cool, but lets look at the reality of it? Our peripheral vision in and areound the work place to too important to have something on your face in any way shape or form that would take away that crucial part of your senses. Come on; that could really distract one from giving the full attention that they need to in order to accomplish things right. I look at the few versions that are around these days with the computer gaming industry and picture putting one of those things on and trying to do what you normally do...... ain't goin to work! Let be practical here. Now as far as fun goes on your own time, heck yea; any time! But that would put it in the geek luxury catagory, and there aren't enough of those kind of buyers around to justify the marketing and developing for such athing to be put together. Still a cool gadget :wink:
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12-23-2002, 06:30 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Originally Posted by Venturello
My question is... is this image 1 inch (or less) in front of your eyeball really comfortable to see? Would you stay with it 1 hour on the train browing, doing work or seeing a movie?
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has something similar - but the image is beamed into your pupil with ultra-low intensity lasers that makes your eyeball think you are looking at a 17" monitor.
:lol: Check out their video - http://www.microvision.com/santa/
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