On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Scott Pircher wrote:
> I've only recently started looking into the wearables scene, trying to
> make some of my old pipe-dreams into something useful. I'm havign a hell
> of a time, however, at determining what's out there in equipment for
> displays.
This changes from week to week, and there are really very few display
products a person can buy single quantities of.
> Most of the companies listed on the wearable links page have
> completely useless information about their devices, etc. Some, I can't
> even get to show up on dns (tekgear.ca, for instance).
Well, try again, because the M1 from Tekgear is the most widely used HMD
for personal wearables, and also the best priced. I just looked up
tekgear.ca: 207.161.253.43
> It was at least a year ago that I first heard of the VRD research, but I
> can't find anything resembling a product using it. Anyone knoow the status
> of those, and when we might be able to expect one?
There is not yet a consumer product implementing retinal display
technologies.
> Some industrious person (I can't volunteer myself, I'm too new to this)
> should put up a page listing all the various display methods, what their
> specs are, where one might purchase them, and for how much. If this
> already exists, what's the url? MIT's wearables site offers links to
> manufacturers, but as you've probably noticed, those sites are usually
> useless.
This is very difficult to do since:
1) most displays are in labs and you can't buy them
2) those you can buy can cost anywhere from $500 to $5000 dollars
3) many you can buy you can only buy in large quantities on order
When this is done, there are only a handful of monocular displays, okay
I'll try this (please correct me)
TekGear M1: 320x240 VGA/NTSC, grayscale, $500
Albatech Personal Monitor: ?x?(180,000 pixels) NTSC/PAL, grayscale, $990
LiteEye B: 320x240 NTSC, grayscale, $500 (no headset)
LiteEye : 320x240 NTSC, color, $1295 (no headset)
Sony Glasstron(PLMA55): 320x240?* NTSC, color, $600-800 (wraparound)
i-glasses: ?x?(180,000 pixels) NTSC/PAL/SVHS, color, $500 (wraparound)
i-glassesLC: ?x? NTSC/SVHS, color, $400 (wraparound)
Daeyang E&C: 800x600 VGA/NTSC/PAL/SVHS, color, $? (wraparound)
Seattle Sight Systems FX series: 640x480 VGA, grayscale, $?
Xybernaut Xyberview: 640x480 VGA, color, $1995
Used only:
ReflectionTech Private Eye P4: 720x280 text, serial, red, $1000
* Sony mentions 78,000 pixels, but some posts mention 180K, there are also
two versions, the later I haven't seen but is supposed to be priced around
$2k
-Paul
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