From poup@mic.atr.co.jp Thu Jun 10 11:53:34 1999 X-UIDL: edccc434716bb46a45fba07a4880bf53 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA15083 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:53:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from asbestos.hitl.washington.edu (hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu [128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA10356; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:53:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailhost.mic.atr.co.jp (mic.atr.co.jp [133.186.20.201]) by asbestos.hitl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA23393 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop.mic.atr.co.jp by mailhost.mic.atr.co.jp (8.9.3+3.1W/3.7W) id AAA07903; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:51:10 +0900 (JST) Received: from mic.atr.co.jp by pop.mic.atr.co.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) id AAA24158; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:51:08 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <375FDE77.667655EF@mic.atr.co.jp> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:49:11 +0900 From: Ivan Poupyrev Organization: MIC Labs, ATR International X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: Re: Hardware (fwd) References: <3.0.5.32.19990529220046.008ec100@mail.gte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO > Jerry Isdale wrote: > > The Sony Glasstron or Olympus EyeTrek are two of the latest low cost HMDs. > The Sony stereo version is significantly more expensive (almost twice the > cost) as reported in the May issue of VR News. But they are both still way > lower cost than a Virtual Research, Kaiser, or N-Vision hmd. (Kaiser still > gets my vote for the most comfortable and best hi-res if you got the $12k > or so). The IO Display systems folks (www.i-glasses.com) are still out there. Canon has just came up with thier model of low cost HMD. You can check it out at http://www.canon-sales.co.jp/Product/glasstipe/gt270.html Ivan -- Ivan Poupyrev [poup@mic.atr.co.jp/poup@hitl.washington.edu] Researcher, MIC Labs, ATR International, Japan 0774-951432] Ph. D. Candidate, ISL, Hiroshima University, Japan 0824-212959] Visiting Scientist, HITL, University of Washington, US 206-6161474] http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/poup]