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Re: Good HMDs - Was: help!!!

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Tony Havelka wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rehmi Post [mailto:]
> > Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:01 PM
> > To: 
> > Subject: Re: help!!!
> >
<bigger snip>
> > The biggest problem still facing us all is the lack of a good,
> > in-production
> > head-mounted display suitable for constant use.
> >
> 
> I beg to differ.  I think the biggest problem facing us all is the lack of
> useful mainstream applications that effectively utilize _current_ affordable
> technology.

I agree in part with this. But, I would argue that the biggest problem is
cheap omnipresent network access.  But this is just because of my personal
preference for applications being mostly email, web, chat, muck/mud and
sound streams. I would imagine it depends on what you need/want a wearble
for that determines what minimum requirements you have for components.
And personally, the M1 is great for text based or limited graphics based
GUI apps, but for web browsing 320x240 is quite difficult to work with.
And there's not much you can do to build a web browser that /will/ work
well in 320x240 unless you get the whole world to change their web pages
to display in small spaces.

oh, and in addition to net access being ominpresent and cheap it should
not be a power hog. ;)

just my 2c. ^_^

Cheers.
-Paul

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