From: madsax@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark A. DeLoura)
Subject: Re: What is an HMD?
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1991 21:15:32 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle



tbm19061@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas B MacIukenas) said:
> Hello VR people!
>
> I'm new to this newsgroup, so I'll ask a simple question:
> 
>   What's an "HMD"?
>
	An HMD is short for "Head-Mounted Display".  This is 
typically some sort of head-mount with two LCD (or CRT) screens
mounted behind a set of wide-angle optics to give the wearer binocular
vision of their environment.  Examples of these are VPL's EyePhones,
NASA's head-mount, the Air Force's VCASS, and Virtual Research(?)'s
new one-piece white helmet.

	---Mark A. DeLoura
	   sci.v-w co-mod and lurking librarian of the archives. 

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