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Subject: Re: do-it-yourself "verminals"?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 21:35:00 GMT
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your basic ideas are sound...
but I think you are missing some basic improvements that would make your life
easier, and make your VR much more realistic...
One is the dual B&W watchman setup...
do you really want 2 CRTs that close to your eyes for that long...?
Radio Shack or any store that sells casio products can provide you with
2" color LCD TVs ripe for tearing into and directly piping in NTSC...
at about the same price or less than the watchmen...
...
another is making the VPL mistake of depending on the host computer
microprocessor to do the graphics...
this drives the cost of the VR setup exponentially...
build an external interface that can accept object input from the host, process
the object into two views, and then output to the LCDs...
...
there are more, but I don't want to give away all of my secrets...

good luck...

-dfRERICHS