The vision in my Private Eye eye has actually improved over the course of 6 years. This may be age (I'm myopic and this improves slightly with age) or due to the fact that the PE allows variable focus and is extremely sharp - both of which relieve eye strain for long-term use. I now notice the fuzziness of CRTs a lot more, but that may be the emphasis on making cheap displays at the expense of quality. BTW, I just saw the new color monitors that come with the Mac. Very nice. Two-eyed displays mean 2X the opportunities that one of the displays will be out of calibration. Also, as noted in a previous e-mail, there are some fundamental problems with 2 eyed displays. For example, no affordable displays (<$10,000) give both good focus and convergence cues. Game HMDs tend to be the worst offenders of all these effects. For example, the Virtual Boy, which is the same technology as the Private Eye is basically unusable for me. Professor Thad Starner Future Computing Environments Georgia Tech -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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