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Computer Display Clips Onto Glasses 34

Posted by CmdrTaco from the cool-screens dept.
fluffhead wrote in to send us an article over at tech about Clip on Monitors. The real nifty thing is that this one allows you to see through it so you can super impose digital stuff over real life. Yum.
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  • Yikes (Score:1)

    by knghtbrd ( 593 )
    If they can deliver what they promise, US$1500 is a bargain! I have to wonder if I could actually see the thing though. I can't see my monitor at 2 feet away, but then again this will be sitting on my nose, not 2 feet away. That might make a difference with astigmatism. It'll be interesting either way.

    One step closer to implanted personal electronics.. *drool*

  • Cool! (Score:1)

    by gavinhall ( 33 )
    Posted by bernte:

    The universal method, of course, lie!
    say you need them to "truely grasp the concept of her beauty", or, just tell her the (modified) truth, " with these glasses you look really stunning" (just like traci lords)

  • I have enough trouble with car sickness (I can't even read a map for a minute to find the next turn before I'm in trouble) I'm sure that I'll be locked out.

  • From the site: "When the user wears the glasses and turns the display on, an image of a video or computer screen appears at a distance of several feet. A focus adjustment allows the user to place the image at a comfortable distance."

    It would have to be adjustable for any sort of 'augmented reality' usage, which is what they say they're targeting. Having the augmentation be out of focus with the reality would be pretty useless.
  • ...that's life. Falling rocks also kill people more often than they kill themselves. In the meantime, please explain how some drivers don't ever hit anybody, and don't ever get hit?

    Still sounds like evolution in action to me.

  • Pretty sweet, but $1500 to $5000? Unless they'd consider giving me one of them bad boys (yeah right), I'll have to pass
  • Just some ideas that popped into my head:
    • Sporting events: The HUD becomes a "super scoreboard" the wearer can use to switch between player stats, out-of-town scores/highlights, or multiple camera angles of the game they're watching.
    • Driving: Cadillac already has a night vision system for the DeVille that displays on a windshield-mounted HUD. Add wearable HUD and eye/head tracking, and the IR image could appear "in place" in the driver's field of view.
    • Medicine: A surgeon can view the image from an endoscope on a HUD. They may be doing this already, but they probably use the older, bulkier equipment.
    • Geeks: When can I get one for my Palm III?
    • Ubergeeks: HUD + Portable MP3 player + Little gizmo that runs WinAmp-style visualization plugins = Chemical-free LSD trip (and people asking me why I don't wear contacts anymore :-))


    • Keith Russell
      Whatever happened to peaceful coexistance?
  • "We'll learn easily enough how to tell when someone is "on-line" or "off", not by the equipment"

    Perhaps what they need to do for production models is add a little red LED to one corner -- like movie cameras and such.

    In any case, I gotta have one! (Can you just see it: "No, ma'am, I wasn't staring at your chest, I was surfing the net. Honest!" 8^)

  • I remember reading about Boing developing a system that combines this type of eye-display and a computer envirement that lets a techniction wire electrical componants in a plain.

    The computer screen is aligned with real life and it highlights which wires go where.

    I wonder if this has been developed further (I remember reading about it three or four years ago)

    In my view these types of aplications- synergy of real life and CGI are is the real future of VR. think about playing Quake V in your living room. where monsters are hiding in the kitchen.
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  • You have to wonder how much longer till portables look a lot like walkmans with earphones and eyeglasses...

    just think of all the long lines that will be that much better to wait through while you surf...

    or being able to comfortably sit outside and program without the problems of glare and fadin associated with LCD screens in sunlight.

    or best yet... your at a party.. see a pretty girl.. soon your at her web site, finding out her name or searching through the wealth of information out there before you make a move.
    (e.g. go to her site, see shes loves sci-fi, ask her to a kewl sci-fi movie).

    oh.. geez.. i cant wait.
    little to pricey now tho

    -Z
  • Well, considering that was the price for OEM's to Beta test the product it isn't all that bad... once they start mass producing them the price would drop (otherwise they don't really have a chance at selling them).

  • I've been waiting for these for over a year now. Now it looks like I'll only have to wait till the price drops.

    The only worry I have is if they will force focus points to close to the eye. The only way I've kept from going heavily near sighted is to keep my moniter far from my head. At over an arms reach.

  • Likely much better funded too... :)
    Steve Mann [toronto.edu]
    WearComp7 [wearcam.org]

    Check out the second URL for a cool wearable computer. Most people wouldn't notice, or if they did, they would think you're a spook cos of the wires.

  • The image lights up the surface of your glasses when it's in use.

    Thad [mit.edu]'s the one you're thinking of.
  • "What will happen when the idiot drivers out there
    can watch Jerry Springer on their glasses in
    traffic ??"

    Hmmm.... in a short time, there'd be a lot less
    idiot drivers ??? Think of it as evolution in
    action. . . .


  • Here comes Snow Crash. Where do I sign up? I wanna be there on opening day. =)

    Focusing on something that close to your eye isnt a problem when its transparent. The way the goggles or HMDs work in attack/recon helicopters is that the glasses make it look like the symbology is superimposed over the real world. there is no conscious switching focal points (that i was ever aware of). Its really nifty and not nearly as hard as people think.

    Ok, the only thing I can say about that last paragraph is that I know what I meant to say, but I don't know if anybody will be able to read what I meant :P


  • Looks like these are not see through, rather they project an image at infinity. Big difference, but still usefull.

    See through would be way cool for "assisted reality" applications. Like drapping countour lines over whatever terrain you are viewing.

  • Maybe it's time to add collision-avoidance radar and brake peripherals to the automobile Linux tools.
  • Although these look cool, I don't know when they would actually be portable enough to be useful. And if they're not useful by being more portable, then just use the $1000 Sony glasses that form a virtual 19 or so inch monitor. The Sony glasses look cool, have built in speakers, and are silverish. Don't know what the dot pitch is though.
  • What's going to happen when the idiot drivers out there can watch Jerry Springer on their glasses in traffic?

    Actually, I like the idea of being able to debug while appearing to pay attention in some stupid departmental meeting. :)
  • Of course you are assuming a trend. We are just about 2 steps away from another HUGE technological leap, and of course for this product the demand is far more than you think. The military already has this product (BELIEVE ME) and production is winding up. What do you think the military gains from a 17inch LCD screen.. Not a damn thing. What do you think a sniper gains by knowing EXACTLY where the bullet will hit (not to mention a list of vital organs color coded and overlayed on a target.. Well you get my point.

    The subsidy has already started, now we wait a little while.

    Next time I'll tell you about the fiber-optic Chameleon suit I saw.

  • One of the important things is whether someone can tell whether or not you're useing one - but I don't know if not being able to tell is a good thing or a bad thing....

    Also, I saw something in about '96 about guys at MIT media lab doing some work of this nature. Does anyone know how far they came?


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  • these things just came out, give it a year or two, the price should drop like a rock

    me, i still want one now though
    damn there cool
  • thats a good question, will the fact that it will be transparent help people from nearsighted so much (since they will be able to switch focus rapidly), or will the fact that the information will be mounted a few centimeters away just be too much

    they better be careful how they package it because there is a lawsuit waiting to happen in there
  • if it is transparent, then it shouldn't be as bad, since your eye will still get the stimulas that your moving
  • The MicroOptical glasses are nice and hopefully I'll get to check them out later this year. There are some problems with them:
    - brightness, hard to see the image in daylight. The Microvision VRD is the only decently daylight readable, see through I've seen. The MO and MV folks should team up.
    - fixed image location, makes it hard to do the IPD adjustments needed for good binocular HMD

    Still they might be nice for a borg setup. I dont hold a lot of near-term hope for the registered-image uses (overlay directly on real objects). The head and position tracking issues are a long way from being solved, except in tightly controlled environments.

    For more HMD links, check out http://vr.isdale.com/HMD_Vendors.htm
    Thats where I keep my list, developed originally for my Tech Review articles for VR News magazine (http://www.vrnews.com)

  • To clear up some confusion, the article states that the virtual image can be adjusted to where you want it. The field of view is about 15 degrees, so the image gets larger as you make it more distant. I'd guess this would be like a 17" monitor at 2 1/2 feet.

    When this technology matures and gets into mass manufacturing, it should get real cheap. Tiny LCD's are a lot less expensive than the big ones. If this gets cheaper than the old CRT, then we may even see CRT's go away. Imagine if the "wearable computer" displaced the desktop? This display might be the key.

    This would look kinda funky -- a lot of people just sitting or standing there, staring at nothing, fiddling with some input device. We'll learn easily enough how to tell when someone is "on-line" or "off", not by the equipment they have (because it might be all but invisible), but just by looking at their manner.

    It's great that this display doesn't block your view. It will definitely be used to enhance it. The only problem is if you just want to look at the display, you would have to stare at a wall or something.

    Things for the future: TWO displays, one for each eye. Motion and position detection so the display moves as you do. Combine this with the "pulse" technology reported here previously, and imagine having your own personal radar. "See" through the fog, dark and even trees, brush, and walls while you drive. This could all happen within the next decade, and be had rather cheaply.

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