Moverio gives you 3D movies and Internet access for only $770!
Check Facebook posts, the Twitter feed, text someone, Google that actor in that movie you saw that time…watch a 3D movie. Epson has come up with yet another way for us to tune out those humans nearby who annoyingly keep trying to have a conversation with us. Why waste your time when you’ve got YouTube?
The new Moverio headset is a see-through 3D display that wears like a pair of funky shades. Run on Android 2.2, the display appears as an 80-inch 3D screen 5 meters in front of you. To avoid open manholes the glasses allow you to see what’s going on in the real world while you watch Lord of The Rings.
It supports MPEG-4/MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video files and has 1GB of internal memory and a slot for a microSD card. The binocular displays have 960×540 resolution. The glasses also have Wi-Fi so you can access videos from YouTube or surf the web. Just want to close your eyes and relax to music? Moverio also supports AAC and MP3 audio files.
I hope my wife is reading this article because man I want one. Here’s my Christmas gift pitch: a normal 80-inch TV is like, $4,000, and they don’t come with 3D, Moverio is just $770. And I can watch football without bothering anybody. Sounds like a win-win to me.
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Hmmm. This explains why everyone in my family has invested in thick glasses and now stares at me vacantly when I launch into my fascinating monologs
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Wow. Those are some real hater blockers. I wonder how they put the screen in there. It is a screen right? Or is it protected?
At $770 I can’t see the product become a hit.
Arpad, I have to agree. This entire category of projector video glasses are interesting, but they are still searching for reason to exist and a price that we can all afford.
This tech really needs to target gamers. Add a motion sensors to the glasses so the gamer would be able to pan inside the game just by turning their head, a motion sensor like konnect to monitor the rest of the body movements, voice commands to completely eliminate the need for a controller or keyboard all resulting a powerful virtual reality system. All this tech is readily available as soon as they get the glasses right.
Not sure why the porn industry hasn’t pushed this tech further?
There’s the nub of the problem, they don’t seem to have any compelling reason for their existence.
As for Kristof’s comment about gamers, head-mounted displays have been around for a long time, some of them not even as expensive as this product and fact is, I don’t really see why they haven’t taken off with gamers. I would think a head-mounted display with a tracker would be, short of a CAVE environment or direct stimulation of the brain, the ultimate in immersive game play.
I guess not since I’ve seen commercial HMDs with trackers going for under $500 and that was several years ago.
As for your question Kristof, about why the porn industry hasn’t pushed the technology farther, what would you have them do? There doesn’t seem to be much advantage over a conventional TV/monitor since both allow a hands-free viewing environment.
Maybe the solution to both markets, gamers and porn, is to have a viewing field that fills the human visual field?
The nub of the problem is that there hasn’t been an effective vitual reality device previoulsy. Only now are all of the required technologies coming together to make it a reality.
Please name me the head mounted device that worked as I discribed above. There may have been some big heavy device that could be strapped to your head in the past but none that was comforatble to wear for hours at a time and had resonable resolution.
The konnect camera aspect is also very important; looking at a keyborad or controller becomes distracting to the overall effect of simulating a vitual world.
And my comment about porn was half in jest, the money and desire behind accessing porn made the internet what it is today. If the same type force pushed virtually reality then… (insert funny joke)… we’d have VR a lot sooner.