Steve Barr wrote: > If your ideas blow these away, and are implementable, maybe you've > got something. Be fair, those are all HUD + camera based examples and while being decent examples of AR we all know that the general public isn't going to be walking around with a MicroOptical display and camera anytime soon. It's too geeky (I say that as someone who owns a MicroOptical display). If his ideas are evolutionary (iPod vs. Walkman) as opposed to people like us walking around looking like a certain Star Trek character then the mass market may be an option. The other option is selling into a business market that has 1) money and 2) a need for the benefits of wearable tech. This is what Xybernaut is doing (Repulican National Convention security) and what the other company selling the laser retina scanning display is doing in the automotive repair industry (sorry, forgetting their name right now). HUDs might get mass acceptance when they're integrated in contact or implanted lenses or if MicroOptical would ever mass produce their eyeglass integrated displays. The HUD will have to "disappear" to get mass market acceptance I think. If the tech is more acceptable to the self conscious public there is more hope I'd say. If you're looking for something that *might* sell to the general populace these days look at DejaView, a logcial evolution of the digital camera/camcorder that can be worn on a baseball cap with the user looking like a mostly normal human worm baby. http://www.mydejaview.com/ > More likely they don't want to be sued by you for "stealing" > your ideas if they put out something vaguely like something > you sort of said to them at some point. If you're in the market for sueing people file an overly vague patent. It's standard corporate policy now, necessary even if only as a defense mechanism again everyone else's B.S. patents. If Xybernaut is concerned about getting sued for stealing your idea *they'll* file the patent if you haven't. Good luck taking your email to court vs. a patent filing. _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing listhttp://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard
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