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Re: MicroOptical SV-6 on ebay

From: Chris Saari <>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:28:43 -0700 (PDT)

> Whoever invents a way to make HMD's of similar quality but comparable in
> price to desktop displays will be rolling in money.  It happened with
> the LCD monitor... you never know.  I still say HMD prices are one of
> the major sticking points slowing the use of wearables.

As someone that has an SV-6 the issue is still price ironically; 640x480
isn't good enough for a great many applications and to get higher res gets
even more expensive. Watching TV is one thing, but honestly, even my
backed up VCR tapes are at 640x480, and of course now 1920x1200 is coming
in high def discs...

But forget TV, just try to do video orbits perspecive mapped text onto a
surface in a eyetap setup with text at a normal font size... you need way
more than 640x480 and way more than 100dpi to get something near usable in
that scenario. (notice how big the font is in Mann's example video. Now
try doing work with that... hah)

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