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Re: display

From: "R. Paul McCarty" <>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 13:05:23 +0000

Cyrille Herbron wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a non obsutrive display to make a wearable computer,
> does someone can help me some adress and/or tips ?

short answer; no such thing. :) All the retail HMD's are very
obstrusive.  You alternative might be an LCD display of some kind you
could strap you your wrist, or hold in your hand.  You might also want
to consider an audio interface and use voice recognition/synthesis. 
check out:

  http://nitin.www.media.mit.edu/people/nitin/NomadicRadio/index.html

> I read from the MIT wearable web site that the better display for
> augmented Reality is MicroOptical, but it looks still in developpement ?
> Where can I find it and at which price ?

It's not for sale yet, and judging from the price of the prototype, any
retail model would be pretty pricey.

-Paul

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