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HMD Tinkerage & New Concept

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:41:05

Hi, this is Dewayne Debbs. I used to post to wear-hard about a year ago. I am
posting pictures of my HMD projects. Hopefully they will help somebody. All of my
pictures are located here:

http://users.cwnet.com/vvortex3/hmd/

I sold that prototype to somebody on this mailing list about a year ago... dont
recall who. I am researching the possibility of a new hmd. I believe it could
possibly be the perfect HMD if it is actually possible to build. Take a look at
the last couple sketches in my image directory for details.

I am trying to recruit Don Papp into this project (Hi if you're listening). The
basic concept is to take 2 sunglass lenses, between the layers would be thousands
of pixel-thin fiber optic fibers forming a coherent array of pixels. One array
would cover the entire lens facing the eye, the other array would cover enough of
the outer lens to feed a camera. I believe this concept could make a very thin
input and output from a person's eye. 

The thousands of fiber optic cables could go into a tube and down the back of the
ear, down to some sort of focusing device, and then to an LCD (or what have you).
The other side could go to a focusing device, and then to a camera. This would
completely relocate all optics, lcd's, cameras off of the headset...and from what
I can tell is theoretically possible.

The main problem: What type of fiber optic fibers are flexible enough to do this?
How do you physically create a coherent fiber optic array? (a 640x480 screen
would have 307,200 fibers).

Any input is appreciated. If I gather that this is in fact possible, I will
probably make a website for a development effort for creating such a device.

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