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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.