Silicon Micro Display Brings 1080p Viewing To Your Face

Silicon Micro Display Brings 1080p Viewing To Your Face

Saturday, May 19, 2012 - by Ray Willington
What if your next display was one that you wore on your head? It could be. Silicon Micro Display has just announced their new ST1080 glasses, an almost futuristic gizmo that allows for 1080p playback right in front of your face. It's similar in scope to the Vuzix displays that are already out there, but these offer up support for 2D and 3D viewing, and it'll even hang with augmented reality. There's video out for those times where you just need to step back from it all, and it can be recharged via USB.


But here's the question: would you put one of these on your face? As nifty as this is for big screen viewing on the subway, in meetings (shh, don't tell the boss) and in cramped studio apartments, it's still kind of Star Trek-looking. Not that there's anything wrong with Star Trek....
Via: Silicon Micro Display | News Archive | Tags: 1080P, display
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By omegadraco on May 19, 2012

Neat. These remind me of the virtual reality games that used to be at the mall near me. You would wear glasses like this and through a complex computer algorithm they were able to produce a very basic graphics experience of walking through a 3D environment.

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By ATigre on May 19, 2012

The minute manufacturers of these type of head mounted displays start putting headphone inputs ( a 3.5mm for a TSR connector) I'll consider buying one. I think it's presumptions to think that people wouldn't want to use their own expensive headphones to watch movies.

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By kalqlate on May 30, 2012

@ATigre - Well, start considering rather than complaining for no reason:

http://www.siliconmicrodisplay.com/st1080.html

Inputs and Outputs

Two 3.5mm mono earphone jacks (one per ear stem)

Just go to RadioShack, buy yourself a 3.5 female stereo to 2 - 3.5 male mono converter cable, unplug the supplied ear plugs, plug in your mono cables... TADA!!

I can't believe that you didn't allow your interest to drive you to seek more information. How presumptuous of you not to do so. :D

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By AKanis on Sep 4, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szuMzQH6oRU&feature=plcp there is one on uk ebay for sale auction

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