Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!ptsfa!lll-lcc!seismo!rutgers!andromeda!argus!ken From: ken@argus.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Heads up display for a motorcycle helmet Message-ID: <799@argus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 05:24:09 EST Article-I.D.: argus.799 Posted: Wed Mar 4 05:24:09 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 07:19:16 EST References: <3610001@hpfcpp.HP.COM> Organization: NJ Instit. of Tech: TEIES Project Lines: 24 In article <3610001@hpfcpp.HP.COM>, davep@hpfcpp.HP.COM ( Dave Post) writes: > > re: HUDs for motorcycle helmets > > Wouldn't it be just as distracting changing focus from about 4 cm. > (face shield ) to tens of meters ( road conditions ) as it would be to > look down at your tank bag? How is it that fighter pilots can both focus on a panel less than a yard away, and still focus on planes hundreds of yards away? There are many optical tricks you can use (like in the viewfinder of a camera), but I'd really like to see if anything came of the work in trying to integrate computer generated holographs with a heads up display. -- Kenneth Ng: Post office: NJIT - CCCC, Newark New Jersey 07102 uucp !ihnp4!allegra!bellcore!argus!ken *** WARNING: NOT ken@bellcore.uucp *** bitnet(prefered) ken@orion.bitnet Kirk: "I don't care if you hit the broadside of a barn" Spock: "Why should I aim at such an object?"