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| | Are there any glasses that are Hi Def? or are there any Hi Def glasses coming. I really like the idea of getting some of these glasses for my xbox (so my other other can get a chance to watch tv while im using these) but I want to get some HD ones as I don't want to go from a HDTV to standard def. Any help or info would be great. |
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| I'm in for a pair of these too ;-)
The resolution does not seem to have increased much in recent years on HMDs. I wonder why.
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| Pretty sure micro displays are just really expensive. eMagin's (dare I say it?) displays are just marginally higher res at this point at 800*600, but they have some fancy-pants OLED tech and are going to release a 1280*1024 module as far as I know from their press releases. I have no clue if they will release another HMD though - I don't get the feeling it made them very much money. I'm totally guessing here but I think they're mostly supported by companies & government agencies that require HMD's for simulations.
The highest res micro displays I've found (yes I actually thought about trying to make my own HMD) are LCoS 1080p modules that are built for projectors and would require bright RGB lightsource, also I don't think they could support the framerates we're looking for, and one would have to build a custom display driver. (What converts the serial VGA or DVI signal to a more parallel format the devices require, at VERY high speeds, like Mhz chips on your FACE haha)
Another problem I'm sure HMD manufacturer's have to deal with, is how to fit accurate, high speed display drivers in the device without adding a crapload of weight or heat. It takes a ton of bandwidth to run just two 640*480*32bit displays, so when you get into higher resolutions you generally need some kind of compression (HDMI for example) which requires high power chips to decode. And I think current standards for HDMI only go up to 1080 @ 60fps so that kinda sucks too, but I could be wrong. External display drivers can't work either, I think because of RF noise it can pick up, but I'm not certain there either.
Oh, and good luck getting a graphics card that can render any newish game in 1080p @ 120fps. (I won't settle for 30fps myself)
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