[Wear-Hard] My covert hmd

[Brian Kuriyama]

Try your hand at this:
http://www.tekgear.com/index.cfm?pageID=90&prodid=95&section=184&nodelist=1,99,184&function=viewproducts

It's plastic, so easy to dremel/reshape, but its only 16degree fov :( I
believe the MyVu's one is much higher than that. Another problem you will
run into if you make the display transparent is your display will no longer
be readable in all lighting conditions, and as it stands right now, if you
weren't using sunglasses to darken your view, the even on a mildly sunny
day, your MyVu wont be outstandingly bright, and make reading small fonts on
it more difficult. Good luck if you decide to go this route though!

As for increasing brightness, there's a bog standard LED on the microdisplay
connector board as you've already seen, but not much of a diffuser. If you
planed on changing the LED, you can also use a diffuser from edmund optics
(link:
http://www.edmundoptics.com/onlinecatalog/displayproduct.cfm?productID=1671).
And if you wanted a high quality beam splitter, you can buy one from there
as well (link:
http://www.edmundoptics.com/onlinecatalog/displayproduct.cfm?productID=2035)

Good luck with your project!

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Olli Markkanen <olli.markkanen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, Myvu Crystal.
>
> I was thinking of making them see trough. I have the beamsplitter required,
> but I found out I need some kind of a miniature magnifying glass to be able
> to see anything else than blur that close.
>
> If someone want's to try, you can get a cheap beamsplitter from the
> boardgame called Khet, or actually it's expansion Eye of Horus. If someone
> finds a small and powerful enough magnifying glass for the job, please
> report here.
>
> It was a lot easier than I thought to do this thing, I needed to straighten
> those wires which hold the rubbers that are against my nose, so there would
> be enough room for the optics and display. Then I just tried which would be
> a good place for the display and taped it there. I might glue it in the
> future, but tape is ok for now.
>
> You wouldn't think there's something in there if not for the wire. If I
> glue the thing, there'd be no need for the tape and it would be even more
> covert.
>
> Olli Markkanen
>
>
> 2009/8/15 Brian Kuriyama <yosh.five7 at gmail.com>
>
> Wow. those are some huge ass glasses! Nicely done!
>>
>> Is that a Myvu display?
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Olli Markkanen <
>> olli.markkanen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, my display is ready for action.
>>> http://linux.com/community/photos/album?albumid=144&userid=669
>>>
>>> I'll be adding more photos there this weekend.
>>>
>>> I still have work to do with the other equipment.
>>>
>>> Olli Markkanen
>>>
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