Myvu Personal Media Viewer...?

At 1:46 PM -0800 12/6/07, George Wade wrote:
>I don't want to start a debate about whether products like this are
>able to make a travelling circus, or useful portable, of a Mac Mini;
>whether "Glasses style viewers" could rescue a Mac Book with a
>cracked LCD... I looked at the 640 X 480 Olympus video glasses in
>Japan in 1999: when they held out promise of future, useful
>development.
>
>Just wondering how far they have progressed? Far enough to read mail
>and update an outline doc while on holiday...?
>
>Myvu Personal seems to have an iPod pixel count and no Mac Mini video
>adapter; must cost at least $35 in China or Malasyia.

I've got one and it is really really good for watching iPod video
content. It emulates a fairly big screen (not wide screen aspect
ratio though) TV viewed at a "virtual distance of about 6 feet (2
meters). But I really don't think it would support the fine detail of
a computer screen. Actually, let me not be so coy here. The picture
is nowhere near being close to good enough to simulate a computer
screen. In fact it doesn't look nearly as good as high def tv.

On 7-Dec-07, at 4:16 AM, Dan O'Donnell wrote:

> At 1:46 PM -0800 12/6/07, George Wade wrote:
>> I don't want to start a debate about whether products like this are
>> able to make a travelling circus, or useful portable, of a Mac
>> Mini...
>> Just wondering how far they have progressed? Far enough to read mail
>> and update an outline doc while on holiday...?
>>
>> Myvu Personal seems to have an iPod pixel count and no Mac Mini video
>> adapter; must cost at least $35 in China or Malasyia.
>
> I've got one and it is really really good for watching iPod video
> content. It emulates a fairly big screen ...

> Actually, let me not be so coy here. The picture
> is nowhere near being close to good enough to simulate a computer
> screen. In fact it doesn't look nearly as good as high def tv.

Exactly the answer I needed, Dan.

To do my homework, including much text, with Video Glasses it will
be necessary to go a couple of steps up to VGA at least. They would
need video connection adapters, too. If iTouch supported a VGA -
SVGA version of Myvue, as well as it's own screen: we'd be moving
well into the future in versatility and usefullness.

George