There are also problems with the crucial helmet-mounted display, which also must be resolved.
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If it finds a matching reference, it'll bring up contextual information that is displayed on the Brother head-mounted display that accompanies the SMI glasses.
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Similarly, the movements of the rats were tracked in their cage and used to control an avatar projected into the VR world the human subjects experienced via a head-mounted display.
Furthermore, its versatile design allows for screen removal and independent use from its docking station, as either a tethered USB-powered tablet or mounted display (via the VESA 75 mounting system).
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The camera maker did, however, take the opportunity to shed some light on its US plans for the head-mounted display yesterday at an event held in Manhattan's Classic Car Club.
The talk will include "technical content involving head-mounted display hardware and its interaction with the human perceptual system, " with Abrash examining one real world discrepancy to which human perception is sensitive.
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This research and development project consists of a hands-free, head-mounted display that uses augmented reality to give you a whole new screen (i.e. the physical world in front of you) on which to display information.
Hocking says developer enthusiasm's been particularly intense for split-screen, even more so than the holographic and head-mounted display technologies that Sony's working on, and we may see the feature integrated in Bravia televisions should the idea take off.
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You could add a pair of slide-out panels mounted behind the main display.
With a press of a button, the dash-mounted driver's display can be toggled between 2D and 3D and the results are quite good.
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Two-dimensional tracking would be managed via the existing Move's visual spectrum camera, or by using a display-mounted IR emitter in conjunction with a remote mounted sensor (again, just like the Wii controller).
What our man Pascal Brisset did is design a Linux system around a Gumstix Overo Fire computer-on-module, a Vuzix VR920 head-mounted stereoscopic 640 x 480 display (complete with 3D tilt sensor and 3D magnetic compass), WiFi, and Bluetooth modules -- the whole shebang resides in (and on) the eyewear, just the thing for secure telepresence and augmented reality applications (or just extra-private web browsing).
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The 12.1-inch active matrix LCD (liquid-crystal display) screen is mounted in "an anti-torsion, water-resistant magnesium frame, " according to the statement.
On the original Storm, SurePress consisted of a single mechanical switch mounted below the center of the display, leading to wobbly, uneasy clicks and -- far more devastatingly -- an inability to actuate more than one screen element at a time, which made the keyboard more of a hassle to use than it should've been.
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To enable drivers to control its functions without taking their eyes off the road, R-LINK features a large 18cm tactile display, steering wheel-mounted controls and speech recognition.
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Additionally, the 21.5-, 24- and 27-inch diagonal models feature an eight-way comfort adjust stand and new HP Quick Release 2, which is mounted flush on the back of the display for easy VESA mounting.
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He returned to Turin, stripped the car and mounted the chassis to the wall, in a representative display of the Polish flag.
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The display, digitizer and ForceGlass screen assemblyare flush-mounted, resulting in a completely level drawing and writingsurface that maximizes on-screen workspace.
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It is mounted at eye level on a grey concrete wall, an arresting display that could almost be an installation in a contemporary art show.
In the prototype, a flat-panel video display is bolted to the place where instruments such as the speedometer would normally be mounted.
But its mechanical display was only designed to last for the six months of the exhibition and repair and maintenance costs mounted over the years.
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