[Wear-Hard] HMD suggestions

[Bryan Hurley]

The mirror on the microoptical units was rather embedded into the optics, as
was the front lens. None of it is really removable. If you remove it you
would need a milling machine to remove only the material that was the mirror
and none of the plastic or you would lose some of the picture or it would go
out of focus or both. All while ensuring the plastic at that 45 degree angle
was optically clean.

You could of course build your own optics for it but that is building which
was requested not to be part of the solution.

The MyVu may be VGA displays but only take in <VGA inputs. They don't sell
their PC input version anymore and there aren't adapters for the current
models to connect a PC in actual usable VGA resolution.

What you want is a Sony Glasstron PLM-S700. Dual 800x600 displays with
variable opacity see through. Except for the big, huge, power hungry,
expensive, out of print, part of course.

-Bryan Hurley

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Brian Kuriyama <yosh.five7 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Craig M. Armstrong
> <ed2swqh02 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:18:44 -1000, "Brian Kuriyama"
> > <yosh.five7 at gmail.com> said:
> >> After viewing some detailed pictures for the myvu crystal, I believe
> >
> > Where did you find these pictures?
> >
> > --
> > Craig
> >
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