Comments on: The Kindle Test

By: Thomas Wrobel

Thomas Wrobel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:09:59 +0000

Yes, I think its just-about possible, but rather more tricky then software standards.
We might end up with some start-up a bit like the folks that made the GP2X though. (which was an open source portable games console)

By: Thomas K Carpenter

Thomas K Carpenter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:04:31 +0000

I think you make an excellent point, Rouli. The market could use something right now. I’m not smart enough to know if a Noah level inventor could work something up using materials at hand. The biggest obsticle is the screen.

Maybe we need another Google Wave group looking at the feasibility of this. :)

By: Darkflame

Darkflame — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:44:54 +0000

This frustrates me too.
I really can only put it down to the failed VR hype a few decades back scaring everyone off still.

Its utterly bonkers that so few firms are making ar-focused HMDs.
They dont just seem unenthusiastic, they seem terrified of them.

I mean, look at all the bezire concepts Nokia etc put out for mobile phones.
Shape-shifting materials, roll-out screens, brackets, weird go-y things…..all sorts.

But hmds? glass! oh noes!!!!! dread the thought that people would -ever- were glass’s! No!
-sigh-

And its not really a style thing either. Look at the first mobile phones; They were bricks.

If things are practical, the slickness can come gradually.
We dont even have decent ar-focused HMDs for research/professional use yet.