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Re: El cheapo Wearable.

Thank you for that link!
One question, the picture of the sunglasses being worn, is that a concept or
a working unit?
If that is a working unit it far surpasses that what is commercially
available and is exactly what the wearable community needs as the HMD! I am
very very impressed at the wearcomp pages and I give you major KUDOS for
that undertaking!  The entire website shuold be a must-read for all
newcomers to wearable computing!

-----Original Message-----
From:  <>
To: Tim Gray <>
Cc:  <>
Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: El cheapo Wearable.

>on your earlier comment on display (sunlight),
>what you need is dark glass to put in front of the beamsplitter.
>that way
>everything you see is seen through the glass, darkly.
>that will fix the problem and make the screen readable.
>
>as for the laptop computer, that's been the basis of many of the
>earlier
>systems like wearcomp5.
>
>see http://wearcam.org/historical/
>see http://wearcam.org/wearhow/index.html
>
>please send pictures if you like and i'd be happy
>to post info/description on the wearcomp5 www site (portion of
>wearhow).
>
>steve
>
>
>>
>> Last night I bolted out of sleep with an idea!
>> I ripped open my laptop (486 dx100) and found that the motherboard was
about
>> 3 inches X 3 inches! and the connector board (the board that holds the
vga,
>> serial, and keyboard connectors on the back of the unit) was small enough
to
>> deal with.. This is a toshiba sattelite alptop. and I have seen them at
swap
>> meets with dead screens for about 100 bucks. (Unit works, dead lcd
screen)
>> This seemed to be an ultra cheap way to go, I'll document what I start
with
>> photos and Keep you guys updated.... (Hmmm ripping apart the Casio camera
>> must wait first...)  I believe this unit can be stuffed in a largish
fanny
>> pack easily.  Does the twiddler plug into a ps-2 keyboard connection?
>>
>> Tim, (In search of the dirt cheap wearable)  Gray.
>> P.S.  How do you tell your significant other that her laptop was
accidently
>> broken?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roland Orre <>
>> To:  <>
>> Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 10:06 AM
>> Subject: Howto vary reflection coefficient?
>>
>>
>> >This summer I guess that I may afford one of these VGA-chips
>> >out there. What I will do then is the following goggles, or
>> >complement to my ordinary glasses. Sorry for the proportions...
>> >
>> >             left eye of prescription glasses
>> >           M (....................................)
>> >           M
>> >=================\
>> >  |             .   \
>> >V |            . .     \
>> >G |           .   .       \
>> >A |          .     .          \    <==== 45 degree semi-see-through
>> >- |          .     .              \           mirror.
>> >C |          .     .                  \
>> >H |           .   .                      \
>> >I |            . .                          \
>> >P |             .                              \
>> >====================-------------------\
>> >                            ....
>> >                         .         .
>> >                       .   Eye-ball  .
>> >
>> >It would be nice to be able to adjust the reflection coeffient of the
>> >mirror between 0-100 %. I've forgotten all my physics, does anybody
>> >know how to do that? What materials to use?
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> > Roland Orre
>> >
>>
>

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