Mr. LaForge, your iPod video is ready
Introduced at last week's Macworld expo, the MyVu Personal Media Player by MicroOptical looks like...well...Geordi's visor. When connected to a fifth generation iPod, it allows you to watch stored video displayed, quite literally, right before your eyes. Attached earbuds provide the sound. From the press release:
"By connecting the small, ultra-light 'binocular' eyewear viewer to an iPod, users can watch their favorite music videos, video podcasts and TV shows with a large image right in front of their eyes...Because the display and audio systems are built into the eyewear, myvu can be worn in any position -- reclining on an airplane, sitting on a park bench and even lying down on a couch."
It provides a virtual field of view at approximately 13.5 degrees horizontal and 16.8 degrees diagonal on a 25" (virtual) screen at 2 meters. It reminds me of all of the "virtual reality" hubbub we had to endure in the early 90's.
