Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:57:11 -0800 (PST) From: "Bruce R. Montague" <brucem@mail.cruzio.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Wearable heads-up displays? Message-ID: <200703171957.l2HJvBbh000463@mail.cruzio.com>
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Hi... has anyone used FreeBSD with any sort of generally-available wearable heads-up display? Perhaps in conjunction with something along the lines of a mobile or "wearable" computer? I'm thinking along the lines of things like these: http://www.engadget.com/2004/03/23/the-second-sight-wearable-display/ ("Second Sight M2100") or what this fellow is doing, at least for the display: http://www.openmosixview.com/wearable/ ("Olympus Eye Trek FMD-200") Has anyone has done things similar to that mentioned in the above? (somebody must be buying these): "I decided to use video-glasses from Olympus (bought from ebay for a few bucks). Those glasses offers a high quality video-output with which one actually are able to work with a regular X-desktop. I am using a "Grandtec hand view" VGA-to-PAL converter which displays my Gnome desktop in a 640x480 pixel resolution which I set virtual to 1024x768. This makes it very comfortable to use with regular applications..." etc.. Any advice? Do these really work? Any downside? Do your eyes start to hurt after 20 minutes? What if you wear glasses? If on a vehicle, I imagine the completely enclosed systems, with no view of the background, rapidly induce motion sickness. - bruce
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