On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, wargames wrote:
> that's what a cdrom drive and lots of flash memory are for. blast the cd into
> flash and play out of that to save batteries.
>
That's pretty pricey, don't CDs and CD-ROMs have ~650 Meg on them. That
much flash ram could easily double or triple the price of your wearable.
> as an example if i'm driving, i want to hook this into my car's systems and
> display my speed, temperature, gas and odometer. without having to look away
> from the road. i want to have a map on command, but a countdown to the proper
> exit will do, along with an arrow to tell me where to turn. for foul weather
> driving a system that will overlay the road lines and edges for me would be
> much appreciated. however, it would be nice to allow the cpu to display on any
> convenient terminal... xterm, streams of gifs, ntsc, vga. maybe even a mounted
> HUD (a la fighter aircraft) on your vehicle windows...
>
Mounted HUD would be a better idea. Keep in mind that the trade-off for
augmented reality is that you lose depth perception by covering one eye
with the display. Also, you lose all of your peripheral vision on that
side. Essentially you'd have one heck of a blind spot on one whole side
of the car. Bad idea.
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