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Re: Anyone here have their eyes in a Microvision yet?

From: Chris Esposito <christopher.esposito@boeing.com>
Date: Tue Dec 8 14:05:03 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables

R. Paul McCarty wrote:
> 
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> >
> > R. Paul McCarty<rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >which display is the microvision?
> >
> > The one that beams a laser into your eye to draw the screen
> > pixel-by-pixel on your retina.  They call it a "VRD[tm]" or
> > "virtual retinal display."
> >
> 
> I don't know of *anyone* that has one.  I'm pretty certain you can't buy
> one yet.
> 
> -Paul
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> 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
> Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH

The advanced cockpits group in the military side of Boeing has had one
for several months, possibly the first one outside of Microvision. The
version they have still requires a fair cartful of electronics to drive
it, although I have been told that the current version has the
electronics shrunk down to a briefcase size.  I put the helmet on to
find myself looking at a VGA color Win 95 desktop, and a map in a
window. What I saw was visually quite stable, and with a reasonably
sizedd exit pupil, since moving my head by small amounts did not disturb
the image.
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