From: lowry@src.honeywell.com (Dave Lowry)
Subject: Re: Low cost display - Questions
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 19:13:41 GMT
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center



In article <1991Oct18.183107.26564@milton.u.washington.edu> cwatters@magnus.
acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) writes:

>Has anyone tried to use the video display units from video camcorders as
>a display source for VR?  I've a unit on my Fisher camcorder which is
>...
>How much does one run?  I can find video heads, etc in my parts catalogs, but

Yes.  They work nicely, but the apparent field of view is quite small--
it's like looking through a couple of toilet paper tubes-- about 20 degrees,
as I recall.  In some conference proceedings I read, someone in the 
military looked at using telescope eyepieces instead of the optics of the
monitor to get a wider field of view.

I got mine from a Sony parts store about 3 years ago.  They were around
$100 each.

-Dave

P.S.  How do I get onto the garage VR mailing list?