Another type of headgear

[nbryant]

Stumbled across this ad while looking into FSX downloads........ Anyone see these before? Expensive, and I can't find anything showing the view from the internal display.

 

 

http://www.vuzix.com/iwear/products_vr920_support.html

[Slartibartfast]

interesting find I think...

[Creaghorn]

anybody tried it yet? is it more cpu or gpu demanding than on normal screen? what's the native resolution? looks awesome. but pricey of course

[Olham]

Here's a pic to demonstrate it's field of view.

 

 

[Creaghorn]

wondering how you're supposed to do keystrokes while having those glasses on .

anyway. looks awesome. but there's no trackir built in, so you'll have a big virtual screen in front of your eyes, but moving your head doesn't do anything, does it?

[Olham]

It has 3 DOF; that should mean, you can yaw, rotate and roll your head. See the product sheet.

 

http://www.vuzix.com/site/_photo/sheet/Vuzix_VR920_Sheet.pdf

[Olham]

The device costs something like 350,- Dollar, if I remember right.

Wearing glasses and beeing rather non-wealthy, I will stay with TrackIR

and just buy me a wider 22" monitor.

[UK_Widowmaker]

I wear Glasses...and went to see a 3D film a while ago...the Glasses provided where just like large sunglasses...luckily, I just put them on over my glasses (Glad it was dark, cos I probably looked a right twat!)...worked fine.

 

I would love a pair of these..they sound great!

[GwynO]

WoW!!! Hold on!!! So this thing *theoretically allows you to look around your virtual Cockpit/Sky and.. what does a simple tilt gesture of the head do>? Does it Zoom In or Out?? This could be revolutionary! If this is as Good as I Think it Is, then I need one! ,..... Waiting 'till someone with the mags to spare affords to try/review it here!

[von Baur]

I've been keeping and eye on head-mounted displays (pun not originally intended but kept) for three years or so. And back as far as 1998, when I bought my first computer and first started playing Red Baron 3D, I realized a hmd keeping the center of the monitor directly in front of your face, coupled with a 1-1 head-tracking system, would provide the closest feeling to 'being there' possible.

 

Here's a link to a site that's been on my favorites list for a lo-o-o-ong time. I've even posted this before (in one of the multi-monitor threads, I believe). The resolution and field of view has increased dramatically since I fist started looking at them and this one is absolutely insane. Too bad it probably costs as much as my house and car combined...keep buying those Powerball tickets, I guess. I think some of them come with or can interface with inertial tracking systems, which might provide the 1-1 movement ratio that Track IR's reflector system can't, which would really seal the deal.