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Re: Inexpensive Display Technology

From: "R. Paul McCarty" <>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:40:30 +0000

Jesse Montrose wrote:
> 
> Take a look here:
> 
> http://www2.shore.net/~cpuffer/Wearable.html
> "    The goal is 20 people to get a price of $375 assembled
>      The list has 24 people plus 7maybes
>      This list is open to more members.
>      We are currently waiting for the first drivers to become avalable."
> 

At the moment, however, PEDinc is not selling these units.  They appear
to have lost the person working on this product and are searching for a
new person to work on the driver, building the P5 from the faxview, etc.
It's anyone's guess whether they will actually continue with the P5 or
not. In any event, it will still be awhile before these become
available.

This is really depressing to see the interest in wearables, and have no
really *good* display for people to use.  I would suggest the M1 from
Liquid Image, but it uses quite a bit of power and I think $1000 is a
bit more than most people want to spend on a display.  It's hard to
believe that there was better hardware for wearables available a couple
of years ago, then there is now. 

Hopefully, when the microoptical glasses come out this will be a
possible alternative to the Private Eye, but I have no idea how this
will be priced, I could easilly imagine this priced at $2000 and only a
couple of people would be able to afford it.

Correct me if I'm wrong but people want:

*a low power monocular HUD display that is under $800 suitable for
reading text

Nothing exists like this in this price range other than wraparound VR
glasses, which aren't really suitable for walking around with, or a
video display from a camcorder, etc., but there is some concern that the
NTSC signal doesn't render text very well.

If this isn't the case, I'd like to hear what is out there that could do
this.  Or maybe this isn't what people want.

-Paul
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R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator /  / x52059
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