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RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Waiting since -95 — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:55:51 GMT

Oops. Forgot about the wiring part. Nothing much to say there, all is standard Myvu stuff for the duration...

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Waiting since -95 — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:51:32 GMT

Thanks, both of you.

I have the glasses hooked up to my iphone most of the time. My main use has been to surf YouTube. I would very much have liked to surf the rest of the web and to use apps from the glasses too, but unfortunately the phone belongs to my employer and is not jailbroken. That means I can't send the desktop itself to the glasses, and the present 480x640 resolution is barely enough for reading any texts anyways.

When (and if!) I get a better graphics card, I will have 480x1280 pixels in the glasses. I will then run to the shops and buy one of the new Android phones that come with HDMI-out and native desktop cloning. That is when the glasses will become truly useful. This will finally open up the web to me, I can run any app at high resolution and also do remote desktopping.

Proper photos of what the screens look like are really difficult to take. I tried it, but it doesn´t give any kind of justice at all to what the screen(s) really look and "feel" like. Suffice to say that the quality is quite poor, at least until I have a proper video card...

//Staffan

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Davide — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:46:37 GMT

[quote][b]Waiting since -95 (6/21/2010)[/b][hr][quote][b]Davide (6/19/2010)[/b][hr]we have different definitions of see-through...[/quote]

No we don't. I know the nomenclature perfectly well. However, that is quite beside the point I was trying to convey. Also, with first hand experience of using the glasses in everyday situations, they fit my needs very well even if not properly see-through.

//Staffan[/quote]
i don't want to argue about see-through or not.

great work! and the refinements are great too :w00t:
may i ask what do you use them for?

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Mnemonic — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:22:01 GMT

[quote]Yes, that is a fair request. Seems I can´t post photos here, so put some pictures of my son wearing the glasses on Team Hackaday:

http://www.teamhackaday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3379&p=42925#p42925

//Staffan[/quote]
Hey, they actually look like sunglasses. My Respect for your work!
Could you please bring some light of how you wired things up?

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Waiting since -95 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:32:29 GMT

[quote][b]Davide (6/19/2010)[/b][hr]we have different definitions of see-through...[/quote]

No we don't. I know the nomenclature perfectly well. However, that is quite beside the point I was trying to convey. Also, with first hand experience of using the glasses in everyday situations, they fit my needs very well even if not properly see-through.

//Staffan

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Waiting since -95 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:20:20 GMT

[quote][b]Mnemonic (6/18/2010)[/b][hr][quote][b]Waiting since -95 (6/18/2010)[/b][hr]This whole business of the "see-through" part of the Wraps falling away really frustrated me. It made me mad enough to try and do something about it. And I have to some extent actually succeeded.

Since my last visit I have [i]made[/i] a pair of dataglasses that fit my own basic needs. See these posts:

http://talk.hope.net/viewtopic.php?id=4563

and

http://www.teamhackaday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3379&sid=ba1f9d068be5e3eed55e87ec4b7637fa

Hope this will stir the pot!

//Staffan[/quote]

Can you show some actual photos of your HMD?[/quote]

Yes, that is a fair request. Seems I can´t post photos here, so put some pictures of my son wearing the glasses on Team Hackaday:

http://www.teamhackaday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3379&p=42925#p42925

//Staffan

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Davide — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:50:07 GMT

we have different definitions of see-through...

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Mnemonic — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:25:25 GMT

[quote][b]Waiting since -95 (6/18/2010)[/b][hr]This whole business of the "see-through" part of the Wraps falling away really frustrated me. It made me mad enough to try and do something about it. And I have to some extent actually succeeded.

Since my last visit I have [i]made[/i] a pair of dataglasses that fit my own basic needs. See these posts:

http://talk.hope.net/viewtopic.php?id=4563

and

http://www.teamhackaday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3379&sid=ba1f9d068be5e3eed55e87ec4b7637fa

Hope this will stir the pot!

//Staffan[/quote]

Can you show some actual photos of your HMD?

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Waiting since -95 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:27:43 GMT

This whole business of the "see-through" part of the Wraps falling away really frustrated me. It made me mad enough to try and do something about it. And I have to some extent actually succeeded.

Since my last visit I have [i]made[/i] a pair of dataglasses that fit my own basic needs. See these posts:

http://talk.hope.net/viewtopic.php?id=4563

and

http://www.teamhackaday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3379&sid=ba1f9d068be5e3eed55e87ec4b7637fa

Hope this will stir the pot!

//Staffan

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Tech_Support — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:23:00 GMT

The production model of the Wrap 920 is not see thru.

Simply put, when a product is ready to be released, then it will be released.

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Waiting since -95 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:06:56 GMT

To Vuzix: We want "Quantum Optics" and we know about the "Blade" stuff. Can't you be convinced to release your [i]optical[/i] see-through tech? We know you have it... Please? Can't you tell your investors it's just not good enough with camera see-through and that the real thing is needed out here? ...Please?

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Waiting since -95 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:44:56 GMT

There is always a risk of cannibalizing on the sales of your old product series when releasing new tech. Even competitors will have "silent agreements" to spoonfeed the public incremental upgrades of yesterware. Nothing really "new" comes out unless there is some kind of turbulence on the market/tech scene, either in the form of a genuinely new idea getting funding (very rare indeed), some large player getting involved in a new area (Apple iphone), a competitor with faltering sales in the incumbent tech getting "trigger-happy" (Motorola Droid) or maybe a public outcry for something we really, really want (unlikely as people seem content beeing flooded with junk-tech with shiny brands). Therefore I was pleasantly surprised when the initial demos where released. Finally "see-thru" AR!! Could this really be true? But nah...

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

DrAltaica — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:02:53 GMT

The wrap series WAS going to be see through, but they changed it to opaque before release.

I don't what the problem that kept them from using there "See Thru"™ Quantum Optics. But as they are still planing on using it on later release I'm guess it's not that see-through HMDs are like wearing scratched sunglasses.

RE: is the wrap series clear or not?

Mnemonic — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:11:02 GMT

No, it's not

is the wrap series clear or not?

crazytaz2218 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:47:16 GMT

i keep hearing mixed answers if the wrap is see thro or if it not