> what the price. I just can't get charged up about 40 columns of fuzzy > text. > For $800.00? Such a display wouldn't interest me at $8.00. Sometimes you need to make a design compromise. Yes, you can get a system with 80 characters across, but it will be large and heavy and block out a good portion of your vision. The M1 is sleek and slender and blocks very little of your vision. I'm not sure to what extent you're a wearcomp user, but if you ask anyone who's worn a wearcomp system and used it for more than just demo purposes (e.g. someone who's had several years of running their entire life through and around the system), the most important thing to note is that computation is a secondary task. Even if the display can show you 80 characters across (e.g. I experimented back in the 1970s and 1980s with 80 col versus 40 col, and again more recently, and it's pretty much the same findings): What I found was that for typing while jogging, or at least typing while walking around, 40 col. really makes sense. I think what one really needs in a wearcomp is something that's small and light. In that sense, the M1 is pretty hard to beat! > My work is programming. My standard console is 80 columns and 43 lines. > For a > HMD, I would like to see the maximum amount of clear, sharp text. 80 > columns the big question is, even if the display gave you that, could you read it while jogging, or running down stairs three steps at a time? if you've ever really used a wearcomp the thing you'll notice is that there's a lot of shake and movement of the display, and no matter how well you anchor it, there's shake, and thus a lot of resolution does not really do that much good. > is essential. I would gladly sacrifice all graphics support if the HMD > does > text well and the cost is not prohibitive. > Smaller is better, but the P5 still sounds like the best deal for me. I'm > sorry that it has a different form factor than the P4. Is it true that the > P5 > partially blocks the vision of the other eye? What was the reasoning > behind > that design change? Has anybody had their hands (eyes?) on one? Is there > a > picture on the Web of one in use? not to mention the fact that the P5 is not available RIGHT NOW in an easy-to-use form that will just plug into the VGA or NTSC port of a standard wearcomp. since most wearcomps output either VGA or NTSC, the display should support at least one of these. the M1 supports both of these, so it will work with either a sixth generation wearcomp or a seventh generation wearcomp. > Regards, > Arne W Flones steve Prof. Steve Mann U. Toronto
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