At the last meeting, I had mentioned to a few people that a variant of head-mounted displays provides AR. Head-mounted displays are glasses with little screens mounted where the lenses would be that are used to display computer output or other video signals in such a way that, in some cases, you have an apparent large screen some six to ten feet away from you, and in other cases provides stereoscopic 3D display. The AR figures in in a couple of ways: the type that I know is available has cameras mounted on the fronts of the screens so that the cameras capture whatever your eyes would be seeing, then can display the cameras' views onto their respective screens. In this manner, you create augmented reality when you superimpose any image over the camera views. For example, one could take an AutoCAD or other 3D model and render it in the field of view so that it appears to be right in front of the viewer (to the viewer). In other examples, only one display is present and the other has a transparent lens, both displays are semitransparent, etc.
So, all of that said, it turns out that the company that makes what I think is the most promising equipment, and which offers affordable versions of the non-AR headsets and arguably has a low cost for their AR headsets, is based right here in the Rochester Metro area. It's Vuzix (http://vuzix.com/), and they're based in Henrietta. Check out their stuff. I've been itching to get one of the non-AR headsets for years. http://vuzix.com/home/ Now if I could just land them as a client... -- Dave Henn Don't send e-mail to my Gmail account if you want a quick response. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
