This is what it looks like (same size/shape as SV-3): http://www.charmed.com/prod1.htm SV-6 info: http://www.microopticalcorp.com/Products/HomePage.html Caveats: 1. The FedEx person dropped it right before handing it to me, so my display may not be 100%. 2. This is only based on a couple of hours of playing around with it. Summary: Other than some unexplained behavior, it seems to perform as advertised. The bad: It seemed to have some problem with being plugged/unplugged from the VGA connector on a system. I would get a solid white screen, which wouldn't go away. I didn't try recreating this later; display is for a wearable, not a KVM switch. I would also see a white screen when switching from one mode to another. This at least seems to have been caused by a not-very-well-charged battery. I could not reproduce this later with a more fully charged battery. The "eh?": The mounting system. To attach it to eyeglasses, you have to mix and match small plastic parts, then screw them together with two small screws. With the included plastic and my eyeglasses it was hard (but possible) to get the HMD far enough forward to see it correctly. I can see right now I should order another few sets as the screws will wear out the plastic bits. I also worry about the longevity of the two ball and socket adjustment points. I hope I get to use it enough to find out if this is a problem. I was a little disappointed with the (not sure of the right term) "artifacts" on the display when a dialog or something was displayed. This was generally a line or two going from the dialog to the edge of the display when there was a lot of difference between the dialog an background colors. It sounds worse than it is; unfortunately I can't find a picture of the effect. The control electronics get quite warm when in the otherwise excellent belt case. I guess it's a tradeoff; the current case looks like it will do a good job protecting the control electronics from bumps and bangs. It would be a nice to have to have an AC adapter for the SV-6. It does come with a recharger for the battery. Another nice to have would be a smaller hard case than the briefcase-sized one provided. But it's easy enough to remedy that by buying a smaller one. The good: Other than the bad behavior noted above, it does seem to work. The display is bright and readable. The HMD is not very heavy; I didn't notice it tipping my eyeglasses or anything. The display is easy to adjust. It does scale down an 800x600 image to 640x480, though it is like like any other LCD display (such as an LCD projector) that does this; naturally some detail is lost. You can also (under Linux and X) set a viewport of 640x480 and scroll around a larger virtual desktop. So, as long as the bad behavior doesn't reappear, it seems to be a good (the best?) HMD choice available. Steve -- http://www.stevebarr.com 100% my opinions. -- 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* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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