| Author | Message | ||
     Anonymous Rating: N/A |
I'm looking for step by step instructions and part source information. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
So is everyone else. There isnt one. | ||
| nickyj Rating: N/A |
why don't you just nicely ask a manufacturer to disclose all of their confidential information. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Step 1: Get up Step 2: Remove finger from backside Step 3: DIY | ||
| amigo Rating: N/A |
I'm sure alot of other people are wondering that, but the fact is you cannot really do it by buying parts, only by "ruggedizing" and existing one. Issue here is that no manufacturer will sell you a pair of LCD or LCoS hi-res imagers as an individual and even as a company they will probably only sell a development kit ($$$$$) or require a committment to order a volume following you getting those few samples. And even if you obtain a few samples, you still need to develop necessary electronics to drive those imagers and do some microcode programming for the interface... So when do we start?  | ||
| Dago Rating: N/A |
You can use CRT displays.The electronic part is a lot more easy. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Dago: Wearing 2x 21' monitors on your head is just an excelent example how it can work. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
no he wants to get 2 5inch lcd, it would be a W I D E helmet but maybe it will work... | ||
| amigo Rating: N/A |
Problem would be getting to focus those 5" LCDs and directing the light into the eyes. I suppose they would be worn on the side of the HMD or something like that but that would introduce extra weight and un-necessary strain on the neck which is the last thing you want to have. I thought about putting one into VFX1 but problem is where to find a 5.5" or 6" LCD with wide aspect ratio (dimensions 5.5" x 2.75") to fit into VFX1 and high enough resolution and then what about optics and what not.. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
http://www.hkimd.com/en/wearable/index.html Poor resolution however. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
I dont see how you can build one that will be cost effective. When you can buy the I-glasses SVGA 3D for 625.00. I can understand if you're willing to trade price to develop an HMD with a wider FOV but you're probably looking at atleast 1000.00 in parts alone. And that would probably be with low resolution displays. Personally I would sacrifice resolution for FOV. You need an optics guy who knows what he is doing. Then I think you have a chance. Just my thoughts. -Kevin | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Nice high resolution kit including all the electronics. You need only the optics and helmet design. No idea on price though. http://www.crlopto.com/products/pdfs/SXGA-R2-H2_03%20Datasheet.pdf | ||
| amigo Rating: N/A |
Pipe dream on that crlopto.com, like with most places they will not sell less than 1000 units probably and these are latest tech displays, I'd look for something older...like: Epson P07SG210 (800x600 0.7") P09XG210 (1024x768 0.9") P09XG250 (1024x768 0.9") ...anyone has a supplier? (solar-technologies.com seems to have those but they won't sell to individuals or less than volume orders) | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
I disagree, but I'll let you know what I find out. I believe the time for consumers being able to build their own HMD's is coming near. I was also pleased to find that there are more and more high resolution microdisplays on the market now (ie, 1024 x 768). | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
If there is someone out there capable of building (or rebuilding an old) stereoscopic HMD, he/she could make a lot of money selling it on this forum and other places. Just a tip. Anyway, is it possible to replace the microdisplays in, for intstance, the i-glasses or the VFX? And is it possible to put a simpe magnifying glass in front of the i-glasses microdisplays/mirrors? | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Well they do sell single quantities but at a price of about 10,000.00 http://www.crlopto.com/products/pdfs/SXGA-R2-H2_03%20Datasheet.pdf | ||
| amigo Rating: N/A |
1st Anonymous, Yes, please let us know if you find a source of microdisplays. I think alot of us here would invest into a pair, which could add up to a decent volume purchase and lower the price. 2nd Anonymous, Re: rebuilding old HMD; Here's Kevin's page, who has put i-glasses into VFX1: http://www.geocities.com/mellott124/VFX2.htm and they seem to work well... | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
http://www.tmdc.com.tw/images/tmdc%20XGV0901specificationDM.pdf Two 1024x768 with drivers boards for VGA input. 4000.00 quoted from manufacturer. They will sell individual quanties. However this product line will discontinue shortly. They have a WXVGA 1280x768, same price but with DVI input. This product line will continue on. 1280x768 HMD for 4000.00, not bad. If you can come up with the optics. I'd use a VFX1 for a shell. Kevin | ||
| amigo Rating: N/A |
Kevin, those look like imagers for digital projectors, it being reflective and from the spec.file they show a configuration with 3 (R/G/B) so perhaps those imagers are grey scale (8bit) instead of full colour (24bit). I think we need something older, like the VFX1 imagers which are pass-through, back lit. Something like that would be more preferable (cheaper) and probably easier to do circuits for. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Good quality microdisplays! I have no idea about the price. http://www.microdisplay.com | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
You could probably use two 3" lcd TVs. | ||
| amigo Rating: N/A |
With 3" TV LCDs it could prove difficult to build proper optics support that would give a good image so close to the eyes and the resolution of the TV LCDs is not high (at least the ones I've seen around are all low-res) | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
If 3" TV LCD's could be used, wouldn't you get a higher resolution if you used some sort of optics that demagnifies it and at the same time increasing the resolution?? Excuse my ignorance, as I'm new to the whole VR thing...but been researching alot lately. | ||
| steve Rating: N/A |
The microdisplays would have full color (24 bit). The microdisplay is monochrome, but it take a field-sequential light, and reflects back red,green,blue sequentially, (at 180hz) and because of such a high refresh rate, the colors will be blended and effectively you will have 60hz color video. Steve NVIS Inc. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Hey Kevin M, that link on the i-glasses into the VFX is bad. Any chance of a new link that works? I hadn't heard anything on that project of yours and was wondering if it's worthwhile? More FOV? Better res (outside of your linkbox of course). The old link is: www.geocities.com/mellott124/VFX2.htm Tks! | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
The link is not bad. Try it again. Sometimes I get too many visitors and geocities shuts down my site for an hour. Its because it is a free site. -Kevin | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Fresh products from IMD WEARABLE DISPLAY KIT The WD-640, WD-800 and WD-1280 wearable display kits accept analog VGA signal from a computer or video signal from a DVD player, and produces 85Hz flicker-free color image on the microdisplay. Binocular and stereoscopic features are available. The WD-640 monocular kit consumes 1.5W, while the WD-640 binocular kit consumes 1.9W. PROJECTOR KIT The PRO-800 mini-projector kit and PRO-1280 HDTV-projector kit employ iMD's patented single-panel projector architecture, which greatly simplifies the projector optics. The kit accepts both VGA and S-video signals, and projects images on the microdisplay through a matching projection lens with 120Hz frame rate. IMD's proprietary color management optics and electronics are employed for excellent color. PORTABLE FRAME The PF-640 and PF-1280 portable frames read images from memory cards and display them on the microdisplay. USB interface is built in for download or upload of images from a PC. User can select, scroll and zoom in or out the images through user interface. The PF-640 can provide 24-bit color and the PF-1280 can provide up to 30-bit color. http://www.hkimd.com/wearable/index.html |
