5th March 2006, 1:32 AM
ass.
the real future is in portable HUD's that are small and sleek and cover one eye with a transparent display. They already exist but they're too expensive now. Imagine something as sleek as the HUD from PD but with a small super sharp image reflected off a piece of clear plastic in front of your eye, and cost about 300 bucks. They could even make them stereoscopic and you could still see the world around you. It would be the ultimate display device for everything from cameras, PDA's, laptops, portable gaming, the possibilities are limitless, especially as we approach the wireless age. The game machine, the cell phone, the whatever, stays in your bag or your pocket and you only have to touch it to change its batteries. Like a bluetooth headset, yunno? The actual phone stays out of sight.
They also have the soft-laser method in development at a few places, where a safe laser carries the images that are shot directly in to your retina that makes you think the image is all around you. Again, way to expensive and even more far off, but it's eventually going to be the way we enjoy any portable gaming, movies or TV in the near future. The down-side to the retina-laser is that it completely destroys any out side visuals making portability an issue of safety and it might cause cancer eventually to the user. Other than that though it's pretty damn cool.
the real future is in portable HUD's that are small and sleek and cover one eye with a transparent display. They already exist but they're too expensive now. Imagine something as sleek as the HUD from PD but with a small super sharp image reflected off a piece of clear plastic in front of your eye, and cost about 300 bucks. They could even make them stereoscopic and you could still see the world around you. It would be the ultimate display device for everything from cameras, PDA's, laptops, portable gaming, the possibilities are limitless, especially as we approach the wireless age. The game machine, the cell phone, the whatever, stays in your bag or your pocket and you only have to touch it to change its batteries. Like a bluetooth headset, yunno? The actual phone stays out of sight.
They also have the soft-laser method in development at a few places, where a safe laser carries the images that are shot directly in to your retina that makes you think the image is all around you. Again, way to expensive and even more far off, but it's eventually going to be the way we enjoy any portable gaming, movies or TV in the near future. The down-side to the retina-laser is that it completely destroys any out side visuals making portability an issue of safety and it might cause cancer eventually to the user. Other than that though it's pretty damn cool.