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Re: A Camera in HMD glasses

From: Bill Saunders <>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:15:18 -0500

After reading your web site Justin, I decided that even if I had to feed NTSC 
out to a pocket TV glued to the front of the mustek lens, the hack value 
couldnt be beat for $35.  The refresh on this display is very slow, but the 
color text overlayed on the video is really vibrant.

Bill Saunders

On Sunday 03 March 2002 06:05,  wrote:
> > Has anyone tried ripping this apart? That'd be great to have a color HMD
> > based on the 320C.
> > 
> 
> Yes, it would be. I posted about this sometime ago. Just repeating: 
> The Mustek Gsmart 350 is based on the Clarity 2 chip as seen at 
> http://www.soundvisioninc.com
> 
> This chip does NOT have a composite video or VGA in. It does accept 12-bit 
video 
> from "VVL" CMOS camera chips. Converting from composite to this format 
would 
> probably require a digitizer chip such as SA7111. This is certainly beyond 
my 
> ability :(  Perhaps someone else out there??
> 
> The alternative is to buy the Kopin Color Video Module for US$700...<stands 
back 
> to avoid the rush :)>
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> 
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