Head Mounted Pandora Display?

[nubie]

There is always this B) :

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

Looks like it sells to joe public and is WVGA

 

[BazaarIdea]

I just wanted to mention that there is a widescreen version of the iWear variety being launched soon, for ~$250:
http://www.vuzix.com/iwear/products_av310w.html

Also accepts S-Video, also does 3D (according to engadget, and some interpretation from their site).

I think that I might eventually pick a pair up. Looks like a lot of fun, hopefully there will be a way to do a real 3d virtualboy immersive experience.



I am looking forward to this AV310W. Comfort and usability features are groundbreaking.
Seems Vuzix has poured alot of R&D into usability while MyVu has focused on style.
Something for everyone. Beautiful!

 

[nubie]

I just wanted to mention that there is a widescreen version of the iWear variety being launched soon, for ~$250:
http://www.vuzix.com/iwear/products_av310w.html

Also accepts S-Video, also does 3D (according to engadget, and some interpretation from their site).

I think that I might eventually pick a pair up. Looks like a lot of fun, hopefully there will be a way to do a real 3d virtualboy immersive experience.



I am looking forward to this AV310W. Comfort and usability features are groundbreaking.
Seems Vuzix has poured alot of R&D into usability while MyVu has focused on style.
Something for everyone. Beautiful!

That 310W did look cool, but I was hoping it supported Stereoscopic 3D . Well a guy can hope can't he?

 

[BazaarIdea]

That 310W did look cool, but I was hoping it supported Stereoscopic 3D . Well a guy can hope can't he?

The 310W will support Stereoscopic 3D just like the Vuzix AV920 that came before it.

From the 310W page:

Technical Specifications:

• Twin high-resolution widescreen LCD displays
• Displays 2D and 3D stereoscopic video
• 16:9 widescreen and standard 4:3 screen formats
• Equivalent to 52" screen viewed from 9 feet
• Visor weighs less than 4 ounces

There's a big selection of Stereoscopic 3D DVDs on eBay -- all encoded in the Field Sequential format.
So it's a reasonable assumption that the 310W will support the Field Sequential format, too.

 

[cosurgi]

[*]Twin high-resolution widescreen LCD displays

Thing that I'm afraid of, is that "high-resolution" here means 320x240 Just compare with this one - it's written there: "Twin high-resolution 320x240 (230,000 pixels) LCD displays"

I'm wondering though how they acheived widescreen 16:9 with 320x240 ? It's suspicious that they don't say what's the resolution.

 

[emil10001]

I'm wondering if we'll be able to push the field sequential 3d from the pandora. I think that with something like mplayer, we'd be able to watch the 3d movies, i read an thread about it. I'm more wondering if we can get some games to push that out too. I have a feeling that this can be done, somehow.

 

[fusion_power]

If you have too much money:

http://www.zeiss.com/cinemizer

Made in Germany, the FAQ tells some things about 3D capabilities:

http://www.zeiss.com/C125679B0029303C/Cont...;File/faqs.html

€360, thats currently around $530, heavy.

 

[emil10001]

Too much money for me, besides, I'm looking forward to widescreen display with s-video input. Plus, the vuzix av310 will do 3D for $250. I think that's a good pricepoint for that sort of device. I certainly wouldn't want to pay too much more for something that I probably won't get a ton of use out of.

 

[emil10001]

I saw the following article:
http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/853/3d...ant-stereo-port

and noticed that quake II has stereographic support out of the box. So, if we can get the actual quake II engine, we'll have at least one game that we can play in 3d (and any mods to the the quake II engine).

Edit: It looks like recent ioquake updatesinclude stereo vision.

 

[BazaarIdea]

I'm wondering if we'll be able to push the field sequential 3d from the pandora. I think that with something like mplayer, we'd be able to watch the 3d movies, i read an thread about it. I'm more wondering if we can get some games to push that out too. I have a feeling that this can be done, somehow.


The really crucial factor is how the Pandora conveys its 480-line video resolution over S-Video.
To achieve Field Sequential 3D, the Pandora must generate clean scanlines (no color bleeding between even and odd scanlines).
I don't have any FS video to analyze, but it seems to work like this:

Field Sequential 3D (NTSC):
Lines 21-263 = Field 1 (Even lines, Left Eye image)
Lines 283-525 = Field 2 (Odd lines, Right Eye image)

Field Sequential 3D (PAL):
Lines 6-310 = Field 1 (Even lines, Left Eye image)
Lines 318-622 = Field 2 (Odd lines, Right Eye image)

Sample image (752 x 480) created with an Amiga program:

Image From:

http://www.megagem.com/amivr.html

 

[emil10001]

Well, it'll be interesting to see. If I can get my hands on a pair of video glasses, and get angstrom up and running on my beagleboard, I'll be able to try it out. Though, I am more excited about the possibility of 3d quake.

On a related note, the ioquake wiki page mentions that you need to have "quad buffers" for opengl to write to for stereographic support. Is that something that we have? I looked around for a bit and didn't find much.

 

[BazaarIdea]

[*]Twin high-resolution widescreen LCD displays

Thing that I'm afraid of, is that "high-resolution" here means 320x240 Just compare with this one - it's written there: "Twin high-resolution 320x240 (230,000 pixels) LCD displays"

I'm wondering though how they acheived widescreen 16:9 with 320x240 ? It's suspicious that they don't say what's the resolution.


According to this and this (video review), the AV310 has a resolution of 428X240, and it does do 3D