The Video Eyewear 3D wearable display
By Peter Rojas 
posted Nov 26th 2004 10:27AM
posted Nov 26th 2004 10:27AM
Every few months somebody unveils a new wearable display that hardly anyone ever seems to actually buy or be all that interested in actually using(see Mitsubishi's Scopo, the Second Sight, and the Eyetop Centra), and we were all set to dismiss VisualWear's new Video Eyewear wearable display until we learned that this one adds support for 3D video to the mix. Coming out in Japan first, but the Video Eyewear was actually created by an American company called Icuiti and so there are plans to eventually introduce it here, too.
> we were all set to dismiss VisualWear’s new
> Video Eyewear wearable display until we learned
> that this one adds support for 3D video to the
> mix
Yea, that 3D video really cuts down on the 'dork' factor...makes all the difference.
"Yea, that 3D video really cuts down on the 'dork' factor...makes all the difference."
I think the chick in the pic pretty much proves that if you look like a dork wearing these things, it's your own fault.
The Japanese figured out a long time ago that sticking hot chicks in ads for nerdy products pretty much cancels out the dork factor. And it works there; you're just as likely to actually see a chick who looks like this using these things as you are a member of the pocket protector brigade. They love their gadgets, one and all.
There are quite a few annoyed people about all this - IISVR have been promising that a full stereo XGA immersive VR headset for under US$500 is 'coming in the next six months' for four years now, and then they rename themselves to Icuiti and release this, which seems like no great leap from the SVGA i-glasses from many years ago.
A great shame.
I know this one too.
Brilliant idea, especially for the gaming community. And hey, for $500, you might as well pick one up, seeing as you could probably spend that ammount on a pretty small LCD monitor anyway. So, hmmm, small "cheap" LCD monitor, or nice pair of these things that look as if you're watching a big screen tv. My only qualm thus far is that the website doesn't provide a whole lot of detailed specs; I'd like to know if it can do HD... If its screen resolution is 640x480, then it should be able to at least do 480p. I suppose it can if you got a component-to-VGA adapter, but where, with its inputs, it says RCA (3-barrel) I wonder if it means audio L R and Composite vid, or if it means RGB... Hmmm...