If I had money...

[louisv]

http://sensics.com/products/xSight/

[badfinger]

For less money?: Natalia

http://www.smart-goggles.com/

binky9

[louisv]

I was thinking of a 3 screen display upgrade this year, but I think I will hold out for a HMD...that Natalia one may be the beginning...

I wear varifocal glasses and using TrackIr, when I look sideways...not ideal.

But with a HMD, no more problems !

Also the Natalia can track your hands with its cameras. That means you could be flipping switches in mid air ! for a real VR experience.

Of course price goes with image size and resolution...but its becoming real, a 75 inch at 10 feet equivalent for $500 seems to be a possibility within a year (optimism is my middle name)

Lou

[Skoshi Tiger]

It will be interesting to see what their "Marina" see through goggles are like. (My wifes name by the way-so it should be easy to justify the purchace !!!)

I wonder if it will be similar to the Sony Glastron goggle from way back when? The only time I saw them after their paper release was on the ADF website in a "Future Soldier" presentation. Super imposing combat data and gun mounted camera image over the soldiers field of vision.

Back to the Natalia, will 1280×1024 resolution be viable for our sim? I supose it depends on what it looks like with your head in the game.

I remember bad attacks of motion sickness when using those early 3D virtual reality systems in the 80/90's

Cheers!

[Untamo]

S!

Has anyone tried these?

http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/personal-3d-viewer

EDIT:
Price seems to be in the same range as 30" monitors. $1270 in Amazon.
EDIT EDIT:
Resolution: 1280 x 720 ... never mind then. Let's wait for the real deal. Using word "HD" with 720p should be punishable by death.

[badfinger]

"Using word "HD" with 720p should be punishable by death."

Same for hotels that claim to have "high speed internet".

binky9

[engadin]

Originally Posted by louisv

Also the Natalia can track your hands with its cameras. That means you could be flipping switches in mid air ! for a real VR experience.

Lou

MS Kinect is the cheapest way to go, IMHO, with the same performance.

[priller26]

Possibilities are endless, and like all tech, one day these will be standard issue and probably very cheap. Look where Plasma and other flat panel tv's were ten years ago.

[He111]

imagine one of those connected to a powerful Pad, one could flightsim anywhere!

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[gelbevierzehn]

Far more important as resolution, will be the apparent field of view (AF) of such a device.
Sony's field of view is only 45°.
Have you ever watched through binoculars or telescopes equipped with eyepieces with only 45° AF? It's like looking through a barrel with the typical big black circular Border.
But if you equip the same telescope with a 100°AF wide angle eypiece you'll get the feeling of looking through the window of a space ship! There are no boarders, no tunnel view, just a free floating image in front of your eyes.

The prices for these optics are very high, because it's very complicated to generate a sharp image over the entire field of view so close in front of your eyes.

The SENSICS solution from louisv offers 120° horizontal and 45° vertical.
This is already a very good benchmark.
So if I would have money.....