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OCEntertainment
10/12/09

In reply to Would You Wear Panasonic's 3D Glasses?
No.

No 3D in my home until we're bloody over the glasses mess. And especially not glasses that require power. It's bad enough that my game console controllers need power these days. I absolutely refuse to accept the world where I need to power my eyes' ability to look at a movie.
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YankBoffin
10/12/09

In reply to Would You Wear Panasonic's 3D Glasses?
I think the design looks mostly driven by function. For instance, it looks as though the lenses have to be flat (curved lens are in the works, no doubt, but the tech may not be ready) so that's automatically going to make them less stylish. Secondly, these are designed for viewing wide-screen content, so the need to be wide lenses, especially since they can't "wrap-around" the face like most sports sunglasses. then, of course you need the blinders to minimize light entering from the sides.

So, I think they've done the best they can until a curved lens technology can be developed. It's not easy to made two big flat slabs of glass graceful.
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scapecfg
10/12/09

In reply to Would You Wear Panasonic's 3D Glasses?
glasses-less 3d...who wants to wear generic sized-fitted glasses for hours on end?
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SQLGuru
10/12/09

@scapecfg: Plus, I don't like glasses over my glasses. Can I get prescription lenses, please?
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Curves
10/12/09

In reply to Would You Wear Panasonic's 3D Glasses?
Sure, I would wear them, but, honestly, they look like those XRay glasses that used to be advertised in the back of comic books (right by the sea monkey family ad) that said you could see through clothes.
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psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland
10/12/09

In reply to Would You Wear Panasonic's 3D Glasses?
I'd wear them, just not outside of my home.
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nutbastard
09/15/09

In reply to Vuzix Wrap 310 Video Sunglasses Look Less Dorky Than Ever
"the Wrap 310 also features true 16x9 widescreen, twin high resolution displays"

HOW high resolution?

"428 x 240"

EDIT: apparently they're 640x480. it's still:

a bunch of horse shit.

i've mentioned it before, i've got prototype glasses by inviso (formerly siliscape) from 2001 running 800 x 600 that were set to retail for $250. in 2002. 1024x768 was a mere 6 months to a year of R&D away. you can guess why the money got pulled out. 2001. ahem. you can run Windows through them and not have any problems seeing what you're doing. colors are great, no flicker, great contrast.

so why? why, 8 years later, why the f*$% hasn't the technology been matched? what's the holdup?
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jdale
09/15/09

In reply to Vuzix Wrap 310 Video Sunglasses Look Less Dorky Than Ever
"The Wrap 310 will feature twin high-resolution video displays, project a 55-inch screen and include removable noise isolating earphones."

Obviously it doesn't "project" anything and the display isn't "55-inch". I'm not sure why they can get away with saying that when what they mean is just that the display is equivalent in size or angular extent to a 55 inch display viewed at a distance of... what exactly? 55 inches at ten feet would not be very impressive.
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Forsakenchild
09/15/09

@jdale: So say you are sitting on an airplane. Pull out these glasses and start watching a movie from your ipod whatever. The screen appears equivalent to a 55" screen from ten feet away. So its not impressive to get that experience sitting on a plane of all places? Now replace that with sitting in a car, or train, or where ever. Sure it may not seem that impressive if you are sitting at home, but for a personal viewing in places that it is not logical to have a 55" screen... its pretty damn impressive to me.
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jdale
09/15/09

@Forsakenchild: My point is really that it is a meaningless measurement. If it feels better imagine I said 55" at 100 feet. Would you pay for that? No, it would be worthless. You'd be better off watching video on the tiny screen of your iPod Nano. But since they haven't specified a distance in their press release who knows?

55" at 10' is about 22 degrees of view. At 5' it would be 43 degrees of awesome, at 15' it would be 15 degrees of lame.
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nutbastard
09/15/09

meh.
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XuanDawkins
09/15/09

In reply to Vuzix Wrap 310 Video Sunglasses Look Less Dorky Than Ever
I hate how they always lie and say "high resolution". High resolution for what? An alarm clock? (640x480)
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FrankenPC
09/15/09

@XuanDawkins: LOL@640x480. That's LAME. Why even bother.
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madog
09/15/09

@XuanDawkins: Any screen looks huge when it's a quarter of an inch away from your eyeballs.
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kylenalepa
09/15/09

@madog: Size ≠ Resolution. It's going to look like 55-inch screen at a resolution of 640x480. Big, yes, but not pretty.

I'd be interested in something like this if they could get the resolution up to at least 720p, though.
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PaddyDugan
09/15/09

In reply to Vuzix Wrap 310 Video Sunglasses Look Less Dorky Than Ever
These would be great to relieve the boredom of driving. Would they keep the sun out of my eyes at the same time?
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slater
09/15/09

In reply to Vuzix Wrap 310 Video Sunglasses Look Less Dorky Than Ever
They still look like the sunglasses my grandpa wears over his normal glasses.
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Barry99705
09/15/09

@slater: That's better than the competition. At least these don't go with the star trek uniform in the closet...
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RainyDayInterns
09/15/09

@Barry99705: and the problem with our Star Trek uniform is what ....exactly? Don't make us go all Vulcan-nerve pinch on your ass!
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Brain.wav
07/30/09

In reply to Wink Glasses Will Make You Blink
Don't close your eyes, don't even blink. Blink and you're dead.
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The Lab
07/30/09

In reply to Wink Glasses Will Make You Blink
I don't blink when I game and my eyes get very dry. I wish this thing would just mist my eyes so I could just evolve past blinking altogether.
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