From: Sean Schur Subject: Re: Liquid Crystal displays Date: 27 Jan 91 21:17:06 GMT Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California In article <14878@milton.u.washington.edu> keithley@apple.com (Craig Keithley) w rites: > > >I've noticed the occasional ad for small (about 4" diagonal) LCD color >monitors. They're mostly for use with camcorders, etc. I'm referring >specifically to a NTSC monitor... not the Sony Watchman. Has anyone else >found/seen what I'm referring to? > >Thanks, > >Craig Keithley, Apple Computer Yes, I know what you are talking about. As a matter of fact, we have just built a VR helmet using these screens. The ones we are using are made by Citizen. They are color, but low resolution about 200x300. They have controls for tint and color and come with a battery pack which fits right on the back of the screen, but takes 6 AA batteries and gets very heavy with the batteries attached. They also have an AC input, which wwe are using, and a mini plug video input which we converted to RCA (as well as an audio input, with an earplug output). I bought them here in L.A. for about $150 each. I don't see the resolution as a big problem because; 1) we are working on a low cost system, 2) They screens are so close to the eye (with lenses) that you don't notice the resolution, 3) most importantly, we only need to generate low resolution graphics which speeds up the number of frames per second we can display. ======================================================================= Sean Schur USENET: schur@isi.edu Assistant Director Amiga/Media Lab Compuserve: 70731,1102 Character Animation Department Plink: OSS259 California Institute of the Arts =======================================================================