RE: Advice

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The official webforum for the Z800 was recently closed except for two
sections, and there's a lot of talk/speculation there about what's going on,
and also about alternatives (http://www.3dvisor.com/forum/). They tripled
the price of the Z800 recently
(http://tekgearblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/z800-price-increase.html) and
tech/development support seems to be dead.

ken
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Bryan Hurley [mailto:]
  Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:36 AM
  To: Wearable Hardware Discussion List
  Subject: Re: [Wear-Hard] Advice

  http://www.tekgear.ca/index.cfm?pageID=90&prodid=462§ion=83
  Z800 3D VR HMD for the display at 800x600 actual. It has a head tracker
built in.

  Or go with a gyromouse maybe?
  http://www.gyration.com/en-US/Products.html
  http://www.gyration.com/en-US/GyroTools.html

  -Bryan Hurley

  On 2/28/07, Dominic Burns <> wrote:
    Hi all,

    My colleagues and I are in the process of building a semi-immersive game
    system, based on the open source Cube engine.

    What we're looking for are two bits of kit:

    1. Head-mounted display [VR-type helmet];
    2. Mouse replacement attached to HMD.

    Can anyone recommend a decent HMD that we can start testing with and
    perhaps recommend the type of hardware we'd need to act as a mouse?
    We're thinking something like an electronic gyroscope - the idea being
    that the movements of the head would replace the movements of the mouse.

    We want something reasonably inexpensive that can handle VGA at 800x600
    res or above.

    Three of us [not me] are programmers who can interpret I/O but none of
    us have much experience with the hardware side of this type of kit.

    Any recommendations or suggestions would be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance.

    Dom.

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  <DIV><SPAN class=3Dgmail_quote>On 2/28/07, <B =
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    all,<BR><BR>My colleagues and I are in the process of building a=20
    semi-immersive game<BR>system, based on the open source Cube engine. =

    <BR><BR>What we're looking for are two bits of kit:<BR><BR>1. =
Head-mounted=20
    display [VR-type helmet];<BR>2. Mouse replacement attached to=20
    HMD.<BR><BR>Can anyone recommend a decent HMD that we can start =
testing with=20
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    mouse?<BR>We're thinking something like an electronic gyroscope - =
the idea=20
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    mouse. <BR><BR>We want something reasonably inexpensive that can =
handle VGA=20
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programmers who=20
    can interpret I/O but none of<BR>us have much experience with the =
hardware=20
    side of this type of kit. <BR><BR>Any recommendations or suggestions =
would=20
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