From: matti@arbw3.kf.tu-berlin.de (Matthias Rotting)
Subject: re: TECH: using the "Private Eye" as an HMD
Date: 11 Nov 1992 21:03:36 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin


In article <1992Nov11.035837.17860@u.washington.edu> copley-devon@CS.YALE.EDU (Devon Copley) writes:
>...
>Some of you may be familiar with a unit called the "Private Eye",
>for the PC, which consists of a tiny Hercules-compatible(?) monitor
>which floats about an inch in front of one eye.  Would it be possible
>to hook up two of these units to a PC, one for each eye, generating
>stereo vision?  I recognize that they are monochrome (not even gray
>scale) which hardly contributes to the reality factor, but has
>anyone tried it? 
>...

Randy Pausch (Pausch@Virginia.edu) tried it and described it in a paper called 
"Virtual Reality on Five Dollars a Day". 
University of Virginia, Computer Science Report No. TR-91-19, October 7, 1991.

Matthias

[Co-Mod (Mark): It's also in the Sci-VW archives...]