sorry for taking so long to get back to you, but my rig's been shut down for service again. my earlier covert sunglasses system (1995) was a black and white personal imaging system built into clear glasses with a slight tint to the glass. i experimented with various light-sensitive tints so that they would darken outdoors and make it easier to read my screen. in 1996 i built the full color version. this was much heavier and that's why my newer system is built into really dark glasses because i needed the extra space and i wanted it to still be covert. this is a reality mediator, but it only mediates one eye. in 1996 it was my right eye, but then later i rebuilt the glasses so they presently mediate only my left eye's vision. unfortunately these glasses cost about $30k to make, and this prototype is very delicate so i have had spend quite a bit of time fixing it or rebuilding it every time it brakes. i really only intended it for shootingback (documentary i shot in gambling casinos and other places where photography is prohibited yet surveillance is used). however, i couldn't shoot the documentary without adapting to it, so i kept telling myself i was just adapting, and started to wear it beyond my training periods prior to shoots. once someone who seemed very drunk, at a party, pushed against my glasses fairly hard, and i don't think that did them any good. i've stopped wearing them to really crowded places because getting bumped constantly by other people hasn't done them much good. obviously they are some way from being a commercial market, but i did think of the idea of making and selling a small number when the time is right. these would be the newer wearcomp8 sytems not pictured. i'm not very good with VHDL, so it's probably going to be taking me longer than it should to finish the ASIC. i also don't have darpa bringing a brink's truck up to my back door to bankroll this effort. wearcomp 7 has strictly been my personal hobby, funded through the expenditure of my (and betty's) entire life's savings, and some very generous donations of special industrial optical components by a few kind souls who seem to value my craziness and lack of seamlessness of traditional corporate unified thinking. (i hope the above also addresses the later question posted to this list) steve Prof. Steve Mann U. Toronto Dept. Elec and Comp. Eng. http://wearcam.org/wearpubs.html http://wearcam.org/research.html > 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:<
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