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Re: Private Eye HUD's

From: nboddie@prairiedev.com (Ned Boddie)
Date: Sat Jun 13 11:35:16 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables

This still seems to be an ative web site in the UK that offers P5
displays maybe.  I have emailed their info address to see.
http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~vr-systems/priveye1.htm#Specifications

Ned

billm@cygnus.com (Bill Moyer) wrote:

>  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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