Tony Havelka wrote: > Don't you find this odd? Especially when manufacturers are willing to work > directly with the end user. Momentum builds momentum. Excitement feeds > excitement. Without those forces originating from the grassroots level, > manufacturers and developers will get lost in their own hype. Look what > happened to the VR industry in late '96 early '97. One problem that some of us have is that we are _hobbybists_ in this field, and therefore have a limited budget. Any savings is considered good, and the P4/P5 pricing is excellent for many of our intended uses. We also often are unskilled in the hardware side, so some of the hacking that might be used to a) build an HMD from parts or b) fix an off-the-shelf HMD with interface difficulties is beyond our immediate skills. > > I think people are bogged down on specifications. I would wager 90% of > > the people on this list haven't even put on an HMD. (please no one be > > offended by this, its just my impression; If I'm wrong tell me!). > > Again, don't you find this odd? How can anyone make a proper purchase > decision based solely on specifications? That's why "Test Drives" were > invented. Spec's are important but performance is critical. With > companies offering a try before you buy policy, people on this list should > be lining up to get their hands on a few. I've missed these 'try before you buy' offers....could I actually get an M1 shipped to my house for a test drive, or would I have to go into a retailer? > > >> Also, why would a display hamper the building of a wearable? > > >Because there are incredible restrictions on power usage, weight, size, > >durability, etc. that were never put on desktop monitors. > > Why blame the monitor and the monitor alone? How much does the processor > draw, the hard drive, the GPS and cellular modem? A compromise of > technologies is important. Why P233 when a lower power chip will do just > fine? But all those still, even on a desktop machine, draw very little power compared to the monitor, and there has been much less work getting display technology down as much in power, up as much in durability, and down in size, all in a pacakge the consumer can afford - look at the flat-screen displays for non-laptops; still in the $1K range (AFAIK). -- Pete Hardie | Goalie, DVSG Dart Team Scientific Atlanta | Digital Video Services Group |
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