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- From: copley-devon@CS.YALE.EDU (Devon Copley)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: TECH: using the "Private Eye" as an HMD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.035837.17860@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 19:18:10 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov11.035837.17860
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- Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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- Forgive me if this is a subject that has been brought up before.
- Some of you may be familiar with a unit called the "Private Eye",
- for the PC, which consists of a tiny Hercules-compatible(?) monitor
- which floats about an inch in front of one eye. Would it be possible
- to hook up two of these units to a PC, one for each eye, generating
- stereo vision? I recognize that they are monochrome (not even gray
- scale) which hardly contributes to the reality factor, but has
- anyone tried it? Are there inherent problems with the Hercules
- hardware that make it impossible (or at least ludicrously difficult)
- to hook up two seperate Hercules devices? Furthermore, I remember
- reading somewhere that the company that designed the private eye
- was working on a VGA-compatible version. (Whether it was gray-
- scale or color wasn't mentioned.) Has anyone heard anything
- further?
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- On an unrelated topic, I recall hearing about a Logitech 3-D
- mouse about a year ago. Is it available? Will it sense rotation
- as well as position? How much is it? How does it work?
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- If so...strap the 3-D mouse to your head, put on two Private Eyes,
- and voila: HMD for under $1k!
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- I'm dreaming. I know.
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- Devon
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