Head-mounted display
 

Searched the forums, hawked google for a bit; Couldn't find any reasonable methods for using something like the following...

http://www.icuiti.com/iwear/products_vr920.html

Anyone have any ideas? The idea here is to use a head-mounted display or equivalent device with an N800 and the like.
Just starting programming and whatnot, so I don't know much about this stuff, but I figured perhaps there was a way to transmit video via USB (The host-mode project I noticed is progressing nicely).

Halp?

Re: Head-mounted display
 

I think that any device plugged into USB host on the N800 will be limited to 12Mb/s which will get you a 640x480x16bit image at 2.5 frames per second at best.

If you get a different Linux handheld with a compactflash slot you could get a compactflash vga card but those are pretty much just as bad off in the "lacking bandwidth" department: http://tuxmobil.org/cf_vga.html

Seems like someone has the idea of mangling the signal coming out of the LCD controller back into a VGA signal on his gumstix: http://ask.metafilter.com/43115/Conv...-of-LCD-to-VGA

The Dell X51V seems to have a VGA-out "presentation" module. I haven't heard anything about Linux support for the vga-out (though I haven't looked that hard). I suspect that we're not talking about 640x480x16bitx30fps in this case either, though.

Unfortunately it looks like the only real solution is a UMPC or an MID (when they start coming out later this year).

If you find something keep us posted.

-John

Re: Head-mounted display
 

What would you use it for other then watching movies?

How would you know where on the screen you were touching?

Re: Head-mounted display
 

It's for my sophomore science fair; I'm doing a presentation on the uses for ubiquitous computing. The design I'm using has a gutted webcam mounted on the rim of a baseball-cap, which hangs just in front of the display.
The display is not wholly immersive, and I am planning on writing software that would allow use of the touchscreen as a touchpad(ala` http://www.mulliner.org/bluetooth/xkbdbthid.php).

Thank you for your reply, Johnx. :)

Re: Head-mounted display
 

Has a look at this site; it was just posted on another site I visit:

It a Sony UMPC + HUD:
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/latest.html

or wait for the new SHINY oled HUD:

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl...8/01/07/195237

Edit: Site is /.ed at the moment......