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Re: Good HMDs - Was: help!!!

From: (Kevin Wang)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:00:04 -0700 (PDT)

 From: Rehmi Post <>
>Tony Havelka wrote:
>> > The biggest problem still facing us all is the lack of a good,
>> > in-production head-mounted display suitable for constant use.
>
>> It is quite interesting that some people ... are "holding off" on
>> purchasing a commercial HMD because there isn't one available that
>> will do 800x600.
>
>(flame #t)
>
>I would love to instead have a smart graphics terminal emulator running
>at the display itself, which would accept something like a 115kbps data
>stream with high-level graphics primitives (bitblt, outline/path
>stroke/fill, etc.; think of the BBN BitGraph, for example) but for the
>fact that none of the display vendors are interested in really
>revolutionizing the experimenter's HMD market segment by generating a
>thin display server.

Refer to my previous thread about InViso's display being a sram device
- there's the hard part for you; the LCOS display.  Now you just need
the electronics and the software to do the protocol stuff you're
talking about.

   - Kevin

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