I read once again about glasses that would let you watch movies without a screen, here:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/techn...glasses-b.html

Supposedly these will be out soon.

How long before these are combined with something like the N8xx to produce a tablet with a big virtual screen?

I don't know, they look really....lame.

I agree.. personally, I'd rather wear something like this:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technolo...irtualPA-x.jpg

Most of them have composite or VGA inputs, so it's already possible with tablets that have video output.

I wish we could use the video output capabilities of the OMAP chip, then we could join the other dorky looking individuals doing this.

Do you have a link that actually loads?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/v...redibly-dorky/

The MyVu crystals are reasonable-lookin', and sport 640x480 resolution and VGA input. The killer for me is they can't be worn with corrective glasses, so I'm still going to build myself an eyetap.

There's that, plus a lot of people get really sea-sick using them.

Which makes me wonder why they don't obligatory have to come with a complimentary barf-bag.

I ccouldn't fiix the link, but here's the article.


January 08, 2008 at 04:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)
Video glasses: the long transition from sci-fi to reality

Lumus2Mobile TV is one of those technologies that’s been rattling around for a good few years without yet making much impact. The problem it always comes up against is that mobile gadgets are meant to be small, but screens have to be big enough for comfortable viewing.

Video glasses are one potential solution, and judging from the evidence on display at CES this year it won’t be long before they provide an inconspicuous, comfortable way of watching TV and DVD while on the go.

Previous attempts have generally been bulky, odd-looking and the picture size and quality has been little better than you would get from a mobile phone. The Lumus glasses pictured above are not exactly indistinguishable from standard shades, but you wouldn’t get laughed at on the train.

Where they really come into their own is with the picture size. Lumus has used a miniature projection system that beams the image onto the lens – unlike most of its rivals, which use small LCD screens. This fools the brain into thinking that the picture is being projected onto whatever is in the field of vision – turning my head towards the conference centre wall in the middle distance, I appeared to be looking at a 20m-tall screen. It’s quite disconcerting at first, but after a couple of minutes it felt natural and comfortable.

The glasses shown here are expected to go on sale towards the end of this year. The price will be in the $300-$500 range, but this will fall if mobile phone networks choose to subsidise them (as they do with handsets), to encourage the take-up of mobile TV.

About half of the folks at work (including myself) wear ordinary glasses all the time, so those sunshade-lookalikes won't work particularly well. I would prefer the laser system described years ago already, if it could be made small enough to fit to one edge of my ordinary glasses. This, of course, until the direct physical brain interface arrives..

now with built in retinal navigation. you can do sat nav and change a mp3 track while driving to work