Olympus Eye-Trek Face-Mounted Display
Notes:
Uses a familiar eyeglass design. Earpieces house earphones. A rubbery-soft, adjustable nose piece keeps them from sliding down. Instead of lenses, the device has 2 small, rectangular liquid-crystal screens housed behind a metallic panel. The whole thing then plugs into a portable video CD player, DVD player, or video camera. The 2 screens use a special prism technology and a binocular effect to produce an image equivalent to sitting 2 meters away from a 62-inch TV screen.
In June 1998, Japan Airlines installed Eye-Treks in the 1st class cabins of all its 747-400s going from Tokyo to the U.S. and Europe. Passengers can choose from among 20 videocassettes.
Olympus says it�s working on versions of Eye-Trek to use with personal computers, personal digital assistants, and video games. The device�s 65,000-yen price tag (around $450) doesn�t include a battery pack (7,500 yen), without which the Eye-Trek becomes a very short trip.
Info from 9/1/98 wsj.com article on PointCast.
Image obtained from http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pcc/docs/article/980414/olympus1.jpg on 9/2/98.