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From: Steve Mann <>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:40:44 -0500 (EST)

the answer for the hobbyist is a wearable TV set.

cheap, readily available, and usually fullcolor.
(VVSport, Virtual IO, PT-1, old camcorder viewfinder from the 
garbage or dumpster, etc.)

yes many are a little blurry.  yes you need big fonts,
but it works and it's cheap!

steve

> 
> 
> Name: VaporWear.
> 
> Serriously guys...  What are you going to do about a display?  Answer that
> question in a realistic way and there is no need for a huge effort to
> build these things.  With a display it seems to me that almost anyone
> could slap together a wearable out of a laptop or pc10X stuff.
> 
> However!  Without a reasonably cheap and ACTUALLY AVAILABLE display?
> Nothing.  Again and again on this group - well meaning people very
> interested in this technology running around in circles without the most
> basic and rare item - a reasonably priced HMD.
> 
> Thomas Blackard - I believe you are our only real hope!  Are you?  How
> are things going?  Will I ever get to see people (non-MIT) actually
> building these things?
> 
> depressed
> -sam

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