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Re: new Eyetop HMD kinda cheap

> What does everyone here think about the social
> effects this product might 

it seems from this and other stuff I have read that
many people have an issue with the "borg" look. I am
just the opposit. I like the borg look. For my
wearable I plan to make it so it has a borgy look
while still being a resonable weight and size. I don't
realy care if people stare at me. 

---  wrote:
> I was looking up reviews on my onboard video for a
> mainboard I own when I see 
> this ad come up at the top of the site. It was for
> some new fangled company 
> called EyeTop and they are seemingly trying to mass
> market HMDs.... this one 
> looks like a rip from MicroOptical except for theres
> no refractice viewer in 
> front of the eye and its an LCD with 16bit color,
> the glasses look bazaar and I 
> would immagine that you'd get alot of looks with
> them on.... but they do look 
> cheap for a 16bit color HMD... no word on pixel size
> 
> Id still rather go with a SecondSight over this just
> for reasons of size and 
> also input.... but who knows maybe someone can
> accomplish something with this? 
> 
> 
> What does everyone here think about the social
> effects this product might 
> have immediately? Wearable computing has already
> showed up in major media outlets 
> but what will the impact mean for the HMD market if
> these cheap units take 
> off? Is it possible the big corporations could get
> into the industry and start 
> offering less expensive color hmds than what wev'e
> seen so far(if theres a 
> interest)?
> Do you think 'the guy who has everything' can really
> push a company into 
> marketing vga/xga compliant hmds in the near future?
> Does anyone else think this 
> is going to be as big a flop as ordering eggs
> online?
> 
> "Eyetop™ has an automatic NTSC/PAL recognition. "
> so you know its got RCA 
> input
> 
> eyetop.net is the site
> 
> eyetop.com is some bifocals named Daedong or some
> such
> 

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