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Re: Good HMDs - Was: help!!!

From: "Rudy Gingles" <>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:49:43 -0700

> > 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 be happy for now with a 640x480x1 bit display with awful contrast
ratio
> if I didn't have to pay the power necessary to generate VGA and then
resample it
> back down to LCD control signals.

I know this has been discussed before (what were some of the message
subjects? I'd like to look them up in the archive...), but what would it
take to build your own display? Even it was only mono. I'm sure there are
several display designs, the PrivateEye scanning method is the only one I'm
familiar with. I'd like to know if there are any other relatively simple
designs such as this one. Also, as far as experimental wearables are
concerned, how far would we be able to stray from the standard VGA/NTSC
hardware and protocols? Eliminating that and using a much cleaner design
specifically designed for simple mono display would probably be much easier
to design and use less control hardware (of course I've never dealt with
these, so I'm only guessing here...). I too am waiting for a better/cheaper
HMD option before I build my wearable computer, so I'd be interested in
looking into this. Does anyone have any thoughts on this (however crazy it
may be)?

Rudy

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