From: schilkk@prism.cs.orst.edu (Rat)
Subject: INFO: HMD's and focusing... (and other stuff...)
Date: 7 Nov 92 22:37:00 GMT
Organization: Organize?  I beg your pardon!



Hi, all!  First, thanx for the response to my help post...  I have a 500 with
3.5 M and external diskdrive running on the stock PS, so I imagine that the
problem *is* current availability.  I'm going to drag my amiga into the lab
this week, since I burnt up some resistors when an idiot plugged an IBM null
modem cable into my serial port.  Anyways (sorry - didn't sleep much last
night... :-) I have a quick question that's been bugging me for a while.
	Q:  I've seen pictures of HMD's and noticed that the screens can't be
much further than 4" from the viewer's eyes.  Is it difficult to focus on the
screens (esp. after a reasonable length of time?)  I tried focusing on my
monitor at 4", and almost immediately developed a headache.  Are the images
corrected so you can focus at infinity (i.e. blurred screens) ?
	Any info would be appreciated.  Also, if anyone has a HMD, could you
smail me a picture of it?  (maybe a gif?)  I've been unsuccessful at finding
a good picture of one.  I do a "cyberpunk" (intellectual industrial/techno)
show on our radio station and want to do promo posters.  I found someone who
can draw, and I want her to draw a guy with a mohawk in VR gear (get it - 
cyber"punk" :-)  Anyways, I'm rambling again.  Best wishes!

	-rAt
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