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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Input devices for the computer of the future
Keywords: eyestrain
Message-ID: <86@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 89 05:03:05 GMT
References: <890112093223.000003A6171@grouch.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <890112093223.000003A6171@grouch.JPL.NASA.GOV> PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) writes:

|The computer's attached by two wires to a pair of glasses and a pair of
|gloves.  The glasses are wrap-around (say, parabolic or spherical arc)
|LCD-derivative technology that can display an opaque or semi-transparent
|image, or be completely transparent when the computer has nothing to
|display.  Naturally they are 2k * 2k * 24 bit minimum resolution or
|equivalent (color, in case you hadn't guessed).  The gloves contain
|pressure sensors and transducers.

Everyone seems to think that active eyewear will be all the rage.  Perhaps
someone could explain how you keep from causing mega-eyestrain?  Reading
conventional books or by-now-more-or-less-conventional CRTs causes way too
much eyestrain as it is.
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