[Wolves] HUD (Heads up display)

ArchLinuxUser dick_turpin dick_turpin at archlinux.us
Tue Jan 8 09:20:30 GMT 2008


On 08/01/2008, Richard Smedley <smedley358 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> GNOME has been developing this a11y software for at least eight
> years, and setting up a GNU/Linux system with GNOME, OOo, FF, and
> Java [1], is all achievable for technically competent sightless
> users. Once set up, the system is _fairly_ usable for most
> visually impaired users, and shouldn't be impossible for sighted
> users wanting to use a PC on the move without a display. :)

What?, sorry guys but the visually impaired are not part in the
equation for the minute so stop blabbering on about voice only non
graphical solutions!

The idea was a HUD in glasses You'd need to be able to see to use
them! How on earth we get to non GUI solutions is beyond me?

I note with interest a story on Slashdot this morning;

Quote:
"nerdyH writes "A new Linux-based portable media player (PMP) features
an eyeglass-like head-mounted display with 800 x 600 resolution.
Dreamax's Indicube i-800 PMP provides an experience similar to sitting
two meters away from a 54-inch screen, the vendor claims. It uses an
0.44-inch eMagin OLED display, claimed to offer the smallest pixel
pitch in the industry."

Read more of this story at Slashdot."

Aq

Quote:
"no-one's even close to a marketable product that
can do head-tracking and arbitrary-angle projection"

What about the Logitech Quickcam ORBIT Face-Tracking Webcam? Cant the
technology from that be used? Mind you I'm not sure I understand what
you mean by "head-tracking" do you mean a persons physical head or the
HUD?

I would have thought the display would be beamed down from the frame
(No rimless glasses I'm afraid you'll need somewhere to put the
gubbins) onto the lens so moving your physical head would have no
effect as the glasses would move with the bonce.

-- 
Regards

Dick Turpin
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