Articles on Video Glasses and HMD's

Top things to consider when buying video glasses

by Matt on November 24, 2009 0 Comments

Video glasses have been around since the late 1990's and every time a new model hits the streets there is a brief buzz followed by a collective sigh of disappointment. Early adopters, which means you, are often looking for that shiney new technological wonder that they saw in a movie or read about in a Sci-fi novel. Unfortunately the technology and applications for video glasses have long trailed behind the imagined reality.

Fortunately that is starting to change. With the widespread adoption of smart mobile devices like the iPhone and the tsunami of high quality online content tech companies are bringing slick looking video glasses to market based on a new generation of LCOS displays.

So here are the top things to consider when buying video glasses today.


Resolution

Buy video glasses with the best possible resolution. As of November 2009 that's around 920,000 pixels. With this ...

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All about video glasses and HMD's

by Matt on October 5, 2009 1 Comment

Video Glasses are a type of Head Mounted Display. They are also sometimes called video eyewear, video goggles and personal media viewer. A typical HMD has either one or two small displays with lenses and semi-transparent mirrors embedded in a helmet, eye-glasses or visor. The display units are miniaturised and may include CRT, LCDs, Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCos), or OLED. Some Video Glasses vendors employ multiple micro-displays to increase total resolution and field of view. Video glasses enable smart mobile device users, such as iPhone, iPod, Blackberry or Palm Pre owners to view movies and TV on an 80" virtual screen anywhere any time.

Video glasses can also act as large screen monitor in some cases replacing existing monitors and allowing smart mobile device users, iPhone owners, to experience an augmented reality. Augmented reality refers to the experience of having virtual information superimposed over the real world. For example ...

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