seguine@girtab.usc.edu (Christopher Seguine) (04/07/91)
I am planning on making a pair of goggles using the small citizen monitors I was wondering if anyone had any experience doing this? Also where can I purchase the necessary infinity focus optics (price?) Thanx Christopher Seguine seguine@girtab.usc.edu
pepke@SCRI1.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Eric Pepke) (04/08/91)
In article <1991Apr7.062652.8611@milton.u.washington.edu> seguine@girtab.usc.edu (Christopher Seguine) writes: > I am planning on making a pair of goggles using the small citizen monitors > I was wondering if anyone had any experience doing this? Also where can > I purchase the necessary infinity focus optics (price?) Are you sure you want to use the smaller size? The 2.7" frequently go on sale and cost as little as the 2.2". I'm even thinking of using the 4" Casio's, but there hasn't been a good enough sale yet, and $300 per eye is above my budget. For optics, I am thinking of using two 2" by 4" magnifying glasses abutting at the bridge of the nose. This will be followed by a fresnel lens for a secondary. For my eyes, this seems to give an infinity feel at about 4". Also, looking through the extreme sides of the magnifying glasses has a desirable side-effect of bringing the image of the monitors closer to the center. This way, you can get considerable overlap without mirrors or prisms. Using a fresnel for the secondary gives a slight fuzzing to the picture, just enough to distract from the pixels. I am hoping that the acrylic lenses can be cemented directly to plexiglas. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.