{"id":305,"date":"2002-02-17T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2002-02-17T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/02\/17\/305.html"},"modified":"2002-02-17T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2002-02-17T18:36:13","slug":"personal-hud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/02\/17\/personal-hud\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal HUD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microvision has come out with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvis.com\/home.htm\">Nomad Personal Display System<\/a>, a portable heads-up display that superimposes a virtual 800x600-pixel image on your field of vision.  The unit is still kinda bulky and clunky-looking (always a problem with head-mounted displays), but it's getting there.  (And the story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/view_Story.asp?ID=2994\">Palm Infocenter<\/a> points out that it's not that great as a PDA screen, given that you can't tap on it, but presumably there'll be portable keyboards that can be used with it, either chording keyboards or forearm-mounted ones.)  One interesting aspect of all this is that the unit creates the scan lines essentially by shining a laser into your eye&#8212;\"Electronics monitor the beam's strength to ensure it will not harm the eye,\" but I don't know if I trust \"electronics\" quite that much.<\/p>\n<p>O brave new world, that has such gadgets in't!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microvision has come out with the Nomad Personal Display System, a portable heads-up display that superimposes a virtual 800&#215;600-pixel image&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}