I was thinking more along the lines of transmitting the vga signal from a base computer to a remote crt, or hmd. Does anything along such lines exist? On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Vito Miliano wrote: > On Saturday, June 1, 2002, 10:38:30 PM, Scott wrote: > > SP> So, I'm contemplating a wearable to use only in the home, or the > SP> office. The concept is that the keyboard and display are wearable, > SP> but the real machine is somewhere in the nearby walls within a > SP> couple of hundred feet. What do I need to accomplish this? Are > SP> there wireless vga transmission and keyboard concepts that would > SP> work with this? > > This is pretty easily doable, actually. Because your machine now is > just a display, wireless adapter, and perhaps audio, you have much > greater hardware flexibility. On the "host" or "server" side, to > display a desktop and applications, you have X, VNC or telnet/ssh > under Linux; and you have Windows XP Remote Desktop, Windows 2000 > Server Terminal Services, PC Anywhere or VNC under Windows. VNC is > also available for Mac OS X (and just about every other platform on > the planet), but I believe Apple has their own remote access solution > as well. > > The incredibly (and perhaps even surprisingly) fast and usable XP > Remote Desktop (using RDP 5.1, non-Free Linux client available from > ThinComputing, www.thincomputinginc.com/winconnect) allows you to > connect to a Windows desktop from almost any sort of machine > (Microsoft even provides 16-bit Windows 3.1 clients) allows 16- and > 24-bit color depths, sound, local serial and printer port access, and > more. It's positively excellent for remote Windows computing, and is > gallons more usable than VNC (even the Windows 2000 VNC video driver), > especially over dialup. Windows XP also comes with an on-screen > keyboard application. > > VNC is highly portable and great for X desktops where you have no > desire to actually run an X server on the wearable and set it as your > display. fbvnc is an excellent example of this application, which > runs VNC on the iPaq framebuffer, displaying either a local iPaq X > server or one on a remote machine (www.w-m-p.com/ipaq/fbvnc.html). > On-screen keyboard applications are available for Linux as well. > > The Windows XP Remote Desktop Client running on Windows CE.NET is the > basis for their Mira technology: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mira/ > > And along with iPaqs and Zauruses, a modified TuxScreen (a StrongARM > SA-1100 Phillips screenphone available surplus as a hacking platform) > might be an excellent platform for this type of application. While > the screen isn't the best (dual-scan), it is a large, 640x480 > touchscreen: http://www.iptel-now.de/HOWTO/TUXPAD/tuxpad.html. Ralf > has yet to comment on battery life, however. :) > > Thanks, > --Vito > > -- -S --- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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