On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I discovered this a few years ago: > http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/336/C9601/
Yeah sounds familiar. I think a mirror with single-axis rotation would be rather like the technology used in the Private Eye HMD, which was incorporated into the Nintendo Virtual Boy: they would only need to project one row of pixels, then rotate the mirror to expand the one row into a whole frame (and update the row of pixels as it rotates). But the whole-frame DMD is likely to be the better choice in the long term, just as the Private Eye gave way to much better HMDs. I have one of the original ones for the PC at home. It connects to an ISA card which emulates CGA in monochrome mode, 640x200. It vibrates noticeably in use. And an all-red monochrome display is not pleasant to look at for long. I ran across one in 2000 and picked it up because I remembered the article announcing it in Radio-Electronics or wherever it was, when I was much younger. :-) http://ecloud.org/journal/private-eye.html Another way which has shown a lot of promise is a combination of lasers and holographic optics, which I don't understand very well. (How to make the laser scan the frame, preferably without moving parts, or only microscopic/nanotech ones?) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
