Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Gareth Bull) (11/22/90)
In article <11457@milton.u.washington.edu>, pepke@SCRI1.SCRI.FSU.EDU (Eric Pepke ) writes: > In article <11429@milton.u.washington.edu> frerichs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu > (David J Frerichs) writes: >> It is widely known that the VPL eyephones are not all they are cracked up >> to be... >> the question is, is there a COLOR solution to high resolution miniature >> monitors... >> something along the lines of color LCD with RGB input not NTSC. > We really need more pixels on the screens. This can be done one of two > ways--by making the screens denser or by making them bigger and changing > the optics. Does anybody know what size the LCD's in the eyephones are? > The biggest I have seen in consumer electronics is 4 inches, in the Sony > LCD TV and the Atari Lynx portable video game. The latter is cheaper and > might be useful if one could figure out the driver circuitry. I read an article in a computer magazine (an amiga magazine, forget the title) about guy in Calif who built his own color eyephones using the displays from 2 sony hand held tv's. He was running the displays from 2 Amigas (one for each screen) and had a working, if small, VR running. I can't remember his name, or the name and issue date of the magazine and I couldn't find my copy of it when I looked for it last night. If it's any help, he was one of the people who developed a graphical dial-in mud-like system called "Club Carribe", which from the description is very remarkable itself (it's multi user and runs on a Commodore 64). I'll keep looking for the magazine and fill in all the facts if/when I find it. Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au OR com259h@monu1.cc.monash.oz Alias: Gareth Bull, The Opal Dragon ---------> " If I said it, then *I* said it! " <----------