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From: garye@hpdsla.HP.COM (Gary Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Input devices for the computer of the future
Message-ID: <400010@hpdsla.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 89 00:11:22 GMT
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Having a display in a pair of glasses (assuming you don't already wear
glasses) would certainly solve the physical space problem of having a large
display.  One definite drawback, though, is that two people can't look at
the same display simultaneously.  Maybe the solution there would be to
network his computer to yours, putting a window of your display on his
glasses along with a pointer you control so you can point things out on the
display.

Considering a company  already makes something like this (Reflection 
Technologies' "Private Eye": mono, black&white), this is really not
far-fetched.  I think it would be important, as was mentioned, to do some 
studies on eye strain before anyone gets too carried away with this idea.

Gary Ericson - Hewlett-Packard, Workstation Technology Division
               phone: (408)746-5098  mailstop: 101N  email: gary@hpdsla9.hp.com