From: Robin Hollands <R.Hollands@sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: PROD: VR goggle suggestions?
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 12:13:30 +0000
Message-ID: <32D38F6A.4870@shef.ac.uk>
Organization: Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield 


caw@bcc.louisville.edu wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for some basic goggles, they need to support NTSC video,
> but as to positioning they only need to do left right and possibly up.
> As there will be a limied field of view with what I'm working on. If
> it really comes down to cost, they really only need to reproduce the
> video, as I can implement movement on my own if I end up deciding if
> it is important.

Look at the range of HMDs from Virtual i-O (http://www.vio.com) Their
cheapest is the VTV at $500 which provides lightweight stereoscopic
viewing of video images. Another $100 will get you the VPC which reads
video but also has head tracking, and can read the VGA signal from
your PC. If both of these are out of your price range, then
(monoscopic) HMDs are quite easy to build, and you can get info on
this from my book (http://www.shef.ac.uk/~vrmbg/vrhmhb/vhmhb.html)

Cheers,

Robin

Email: r.hollands@sheffield.ac.uk
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