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Re: Displays and such...

From: Charles J Knight <>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:50:03 +0000

>I believe some of the MIT people have tried this.

Did any of them manage to interface to it?  Counterweighted mirrors
don't sound too bad...the interface electronics is what worries me.

>It turns out that the mirrors for each eye counterweight each other 
>(or 
>something like that), which makes it impossible to turn it into a 
>monocular display, and the stock VB causes eyestrain after ~20 
>minutes...

So, just display on one of them, and mask the other one.  Just because
it comes as a twin display, it doesn't mean that we have to use both of 
them simultaneously...or completely separate them.

>> As I understand it, the "Virtual Boy" had a similar display 

     -- Chuck Knight

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