I believe some of the MIT people have tried this. It turns out that the mirrors for each eye counterweight each other (or something like that), which makes it impossible to turn it into a monocular display, and the stock VB causes eyestrain after ~20 minutes... On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Charles J Knight wrote: > A while back, some list members theorized about hacking a fax > view. > > >Hrm... How's about some group reverse-engineering and modification of > >Faxviews? > > > >the M1, but from my reading it seems that this is a limitation of the > >Faxview guts, not the display itself... > > As I understand it, the "Virtual Boy" had a similar display installed in > it. A friend of mine has found several for sale in Arkansas, and is > willing to pick up as many as I want...they're cheap, but not cheap > enough if it's a *hopeless* hack. (I don't have an unlimited budget) > > So, has anyone successfully hacked a Virtual Boy's display? Is it > even a reaonable thing to hack? The hardware seems similar enough > to the faxview and similar products. > > -- Chuck Knight > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > -- 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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