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Re: Wearable-suited Displays

Jason Cohen wrote:
> 
> I have been looking into various VGA displays the last couple weeks and have
> found nothing satisfactory and a low-enough price (i.e. < $1000).  Has
> anyone had better luck at locating micro-displays with VGA resolution
> costing less than a small fortune?
> 
> Any discussion on this topic would be appreciated, whether the news is good
> or bad.
> 
> - jason

Your best bet is the M1 HMD from LiquidImage:

   http://www.liquidimage.ca/m1.html ($600)

even though this display is only 320x240 256colors b/w.

The other alternatives are to use the eyepiece from a camcorder and buy
a vga->ntsc converter, but most people are disappointed with the
resolution. see detailed instructions:

  http://www.wearcomp.org/

The last alternative is to buy any of the low end VR headsets like the 

Sony Glasstron VR glasses 
  http://www.sony.co.jp/ProductsPark/Consumer/TV/Glasstron/profile.html 
  ($600)

or the VIO iGlasses 
  http://www.vio.com/
  (~$1000)

but these are opaque glasses and you can't walk around with them on.  At
least you shouldn't. ;)

Lastly, you can build an arm mounted, or other mounted LCD display which
has the advantage of using less power than most HMDs. Orang-Otang has an
arm mounted 1/4 vga display (similar resolution as M1 above):

  http://www.orang-otang.com/
  (?)

There are other solutions out there, but I can't remember them off the
top of my head.

-Paul
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