Around 1992 a friend of mine had a wearable video display device called a "Private Eye". It was lightweight and comfortable, plugged into a standard SVGA port, and provided 640x400 resolution in front of the wearer's right eye. I've looked for the emergence of similar products since then, but the only headsets I've seen have been bulky, heavy, hellaciously expensive affairs with head tracking hardware and high-resolution graphics with color (I only ever saw the Private Eye display in green, which worked just fine). Does anyone make a simple, light, inexpensive HUD nowadays? I've always wanted to be able to keep my laptop in a backpack and use it via HUD and chordic keypad. For the things I'd use it for (database lookup and notetaking) text would be plenty of functionality. I have little use for graphics. -- Bill Moyer
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