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     Anonymous Rating: N/A |
In the beginning of 2004 there will be true virtual reality headmounted displays on the market, one from korean Daeyang and one from american IISVR. Both will have larger fields of view than existing VR-HMD i-visor and at least the x-viewer from IISVR will be under 500$. LAWNMOVERMAN, HERE I COME!!! | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
The reason I know this is that I have had mailcontact with Stephen Glaser at IISVR and Soki J. Choi at Daeyang. Ask them for your self if you don´t believe me. But you have to find their e-mailadresses for your self. I don´t want to be responsible for them beeing overwelmed by e-mails. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Overflooded that is. | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
Wasn't 1995 supposed to be the VR HMD year? :-) Christoph | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Maybe. But that is 8 years ago, and a lot of things happen in that time. I have a pare of e-glasses myself, and I´m very,very pleased with them. As I have understood it a cy/-visor (HMD) have the same picturequality, but no ghosting or flickering at all. The only problem with the cy/-visor is the price and the small field of view (FOV). I know that the x-viewer will be much cheaper and have a lot bigger FOV. And it seems that the new Daeyang HMD will have even greater FOV. Today the cpu´s are at least ten times faster than 1995 and LCD-crystals are cheaper. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
The x-viewer is a myth and the cy-visor is no longer being sold because of defective manufacturing. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Well, I too start to think x-viewer is a myth. IISVR, shape up! | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
IISVR have been postponing the release of x-viewer too many times now. It´s time for u guys to stop promissing promises you can´t keep. Can u plz tell us what´s the problem?!! | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
It´s still possible to by the cy-visor on for instance http://www.vrealities.com/cy-visor.html | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
I spoke to them and they said they are out of stock and will not sell anymore cy-visors until Daeyang fixes the problems with the product. | ||
| Steve@IIS Rating: N/A |
1995- Christoph, that is pricelss Steve | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
I'll join the queue, i was told mid this year.. Steve, what was the most current delay for the x-viewer? Stringing us along is worse than telling us it's been scraped, For IIS anyway. | ||
| Steve@IIS Rating: N/A |
I always like to fall back on the most common excuses for these types of delays, economic conditions for small business in the US, the War in Iraq etc. Honestly, we have just been busy doing other things and waiting for some new technology that we do not make, but has been taking longer to develop then they thought it would. I have been told, year end, but who knows. I would go buy some other low cost-high res HMD in the mean time. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
I have also spoken to Mr Choi in the past. Last time I heard from him, he was saying September 2003 for the new OLED cy-visors. He said with the new OLED technology, the stability and display quality of the unit would increase. FOV is bigger than the previous i-visor, and slightly bigger than the Sony LDI-D100BE which seems to have set the standard for the consumer market in the past. I am keeping my fingers crossed, and my credit card on standby! | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
An OLED-HMD this September? Naahh... C. | ||
| tj Rating: N/A |
I saw with my own eyes (i.e., tried out) an OLED HMD at the SID conference exactly one year ago. It's made by eMagin (http://www.emagin.com), was supposedly higher res than SVGA (it might've been 1024x768, although I couldn't precisely tell), and I found it to be pretty impressive. So ya never know! I've wondered what's been keeping it from market this long. The OLED approach is supposedly relatively cheap, although any new technology starts out high-priced until the manufacturing process is refined. The HMD had a typical, rather narrow FOV as I recall (around 30 degrees), but that's an optics issue. | ||
| tj Rating: N/A |
P.S. - Here's what eMagin is up to right now at SID: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030520/202166_1.html | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
OLED does not sound like it would be a low cost solution. I could be mistaken but the evaluation kit from emagin is like $6,500. Its understandable that those kits could be more expensive then the actual manufacturing costs but how much lower could it get? |
