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- Over the weekend (16/17th), there were two separate reports in the
- English newspapers (Daily Telegraph and Sunday Express) on a
- `revolutionary' new device, the GoggleVox. This device is supposed to
- be able to do to TV what the WalkMan has done to tape recorders. By all
- accounts it is a pair of LCD displays mounted into goggles no larger
- than those used in skiing. The means of achieving the quality
- required for teevee is an undisclosed magnifying technique. Although
- that's its initial entrypoint, if this device is for real, and there
- are no problems hooking it up to a VR system, it looks like serious
- competition for the other devices currently available for VR, both in
- size and cost - estimated 300 pounds sterling for the whole system, so
- the goggles should be somewhat less.
-
- Mr William Johnson, an independant inventor, seems to be the main
- inventor, with help from the aforementioned Nicholas Phillips.
-
- The inventor is clinching major deals for the device AS A PERSONAL
- TEEVEE SYSTEM; his interest in VR will be limited for the time being
- simply because there is not a mass market for it yet, and consequently
- he has not produced a spec relevant to VR applications. I managed to
- talk to him, but for now he would prefer to go through his agent, Ms
- Samantha Turner, who can be contacted on +44 (0)81 202 0976.
-
- I have been promised some kind of blurb but it is "in the post", so I
- will send it on if and when it arrives.
-