Michael Paine wrote: > What does it take to make something like the Liteye? I bet the components > are dirt cheap and they are charging way too much for it, like all of the > other monocular products out there.. I am guessing that its basically the same kind of exercise to make an HMD like liteye as it would be using Kopin or MicroDisplay parts (not the same but similar amount of effort) but using Planar parts. Effort required seems to depends on whether input is NTSC video or analog VGA, and whether output is NTSC/QVGA/VGA/SVGA/XGA resolution and monochrome or color. Sounds like NTSC mono is fairly simple compared to analog VGA converted to field sequential color. Either way you'd need to make a driver circuit with DACs and op amps etc (Ed says its three months work), and you also need to make optics (precision!), those microdisplays are tiny. What caught my attention in the liteye thermal imaging info is that both the camera and display appear to run off AA batteries. It looks like the mono liteyes burn very lean. I like that! I wish the Liteye VGA mono was cheap. It's not :( -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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