Scalar Corp. intros 7 gram LCD glasses
By Barb Dybwad 
posted Apr 6th 2005 8:30AM
posted Apr 6th 2005 8:30AM
You, too, can help spearhead cyborg fashion with Scalar Corp.'s ultra-lightweight LCD glasses. The wearable screens can be mounted on regular eyeglasses, and their positioning smack dab in front of your eye creates a virtual 14-inch TV screen as viewed from 1m. The 0.24-inch, 180,000 pixel chip weighs in at just 7 grams, but all that compact goodness won't come cheap: at about $460 for the Scalar Teleglasses, which we can only assume doesn't include the prescription lenses, it may be a better investment to just get some LASIK and a flat panel.
Whatever happened to not sitting to close to the screen?
One step closer to the AR we've all been dreaming of :P
I'm confused - how can you even focus on something that close? Does it have special lenses built in? And what distance do you then have to focus on normally in order to focus on teh screen? Having different lenses for different eyes surely means one big fucking headache?
it's too expensive. Drop the price my two orders of magnitude and sell it with every mp3 player/digital camera out there and you might have a living chance. I am thinking Idoru (William Gibson) style computer screens, but not at this price point
I'd wager that it doesn't matter what prescription your lens is, since what your focusing on is outside the glasses (i.e. its light is being corrected by your lenses), as opposed to it projecting onto your retina.
What's nice about this is that you can put it on any pair of glasses, so for example you could smack it on sunglasses too (although the display would be as dimmed as the real-world view. This is a nice step to customized augmented reality (which will always be better than having wear proprietary glasses).