Bill Nordstrom wrote: > I got excited at first when I heard Cannon was releasing a HUD dubbed > Eye-Trek. I thought maybe they had integrated the eye tracking technology > they used in some of there camcorders. If I remember right they had ones > where it would autofocus based upon where you were looking. > > I don't know about anyone else, but I consider some sort of eye tracking > capability as a must-have for a mass market wearable. are you thinking eye tracking focus for actively finding comfort in an AR fusing of text to real world, (needing some sort of lens / chip) or, eye scrolling similar to the PARC's 'circular' GUI (I think they called it a hyper tree?), as would be useful where your eye moved the text contra to itself (regulating rate of change by hand?). or, some other eye tracking use? Above does allow for the notion of a resolution increase from the larger field. Then if you add head tracking, you can walk into a virtual sphere of 3D scrollable information with the Parc GUI idea maybe for zooming into larger scale / resolution etc., you're then in a virtual hyper tree's 3D field. In such a 3D virtual sphere the head track could find the field areas while the eye track could enlarge a fixed (stationary head) field's detail resolution. On another track, Check out the latest BusinessWeek 3/6/00 for 8 full page color renderings of ideas from IDEO on future personal tech (naturally some are wearables). The 'earing phone' and (similar looking to MicroVision's WIRED rendering a few years back) are a pair of 'comfort zone' sunglasses w. text screen displayed on a left side periphery?, I suppose to keep straight ahead view open, but adding left view limit eye strain? + no focusing lenses? It doesn't really matter it's only vapor, but the public exposure to BW 'tech investors' may be a potential plus. > Not a lot of people > want to be hopping up and down yelling, "Scroll up!! Scroll up!!" like that > moron on the IBM commercial. > -- > Bill Nordstrom > University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas ( www.swmed.edu ) > 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. > Dallas, TX 75390-9039 > W:214-648-9227 > Fax: 214-648-8694 > mailto:> "I welcome the arrival of conscious computers because then they will > understand my threats." -Bill Nordstrom > -- > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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