[Wear-Hard] HMD suggestions

[Craig M. Armstrong]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:50:51 -1000, "Brian Kuriyama"
<yosh.five7 at gmail.com> said:
> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/07/28/review-myvu-crystal-701-personal-media-viewer/
> and specifically
> http://www.geardiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/cimg4827.jpg

Thank you for the links.
 
> Since the company is based off of the now defunct MicroOptical Corp, I
> believe it is not unreasonable to assume that this display is a
> repackaged dual display version of
> http://www.tekgear.com/index.cfm?pageID=90&prodid=395&section=84&nodelist=1,83,84&function=viewproducts
> But centered around a composite video input rather than VGA.

Looking at the pictures, I agree it's not unreasonable.
 
> Assuming this, it appears the image of the display is projected from
> the side of the glasses, onto a mirror located in front of the eye. If
> this is truly the case, then by removing the backing (assuming the
> mirror housing encases the back) of the optics housing, and replacing
> the mirror with a half silvered mirror you should be able to "see
> through" the display. The problem you may encounter with this is that
> the display's backlight may not be bright enough to compensate for the
> environment you intend to use it in. You might be able to stick a more
> powerful backlight in there with a greater range of brightnesses
> (assuming your own control circuit for the higher current drawing
> backlight).
> 
> Thoughts?
> -Brian

My first question would be: did anyone ever do that with any of the
MicroOptical HMDs?

Second is, other than the DataGlass 2A (which doesn't accept a composite
input), are there any other see through HMDs?

--
Craig