Hi Paul, In a message dated 98-04-15 12:34:37 EDT, you write: << I think that's the sexiest pose I've ever seen with a potential wearable component. No offense to all of you who have been in wearable fashion shows. :) -Paul >> That is pretty neat looking, but it's not the same windscreen as Micro Optical's (better) real world normal eyeglass look. Olympus has chosen here the more jet set ski slope market, which is a real market but ultimatly not the majority. The important issues of course are how does it interface with our real world. Short of real spec / performance from them, I will briefly relate content in a fist full of patent abstracts & full copies that were published back in 7/96 to 12/96 of Olympus' direction then. The actual device you've seen here may be in newer applications possibly published in Europe prior to the US patent award & publication. The 1996 pats. I have copies of include; 7/23; field of view widening optically in prisms (sim. to V-I/O). 11/5; see thru LCD shutters that modulate real world light interferance to the virtual with lcd pinhole & view angle problems solved. 11/12; a coherent light (laser) display using holographic diffraction grating wave interferance requiring eye tracking for retinal focus. 11/26; an apparatus with L/R lcd, controller for size, shape, position, rotation, & head tracking. 12/31; addresses head mounting that is including over top / frontal head mount more elaborate than the mount in the previous patent which is similar to the photo by going around back (photo shows a clasp not in patent which shows rear pressure pads that solve an issue Steve Mann had in sliding on nose bridge). tris metcalfe << Ken Kameda wrote: > > Olympus released face mount display [eye trek] > http://www.olympus.co.jp/LineUp/HMD/fmd011f.html > you can see pictures. > Sorry currently only Japanese page is available. > >>
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