EPSON Moverio BT-100 wearable 3D head-mounted display puts Android close to your eyeballs

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  • March 28, 2012 at 12:24 pm

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EPSON Moverio BT-100 Android 3D glasses and controller worn by a man

We have to hand it to EPSON for originality. The company has just announced that it’s shipping the world’s first see-through wearable display (a.k.a. glasses with built-in displays) running Android. The EPSON Moverio BT-100 is a relatively bulky set of glasses (that are however much smaller than other head-mounted displays we’ve seen, like the Sony HMZ-T1) with twin 0.52-inch qHD (960×540) resolution LCD displays, a pair of earphones and a separate hand controller connected to the glasses with a wire.

The hand controller features a touchpad in order to control the on-screen cursor, a directional-pad and a standard set of Android buttons. There is also a 2D/3D mode toggle. The glasses can obviously do 3D and, similar to other 3D goggles, the effect is better than let’s say 3D TVs since each eye is seeing a completely different image, eliminating cross-talk.
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Samsung Galaxy S III could launch at MWC in Barcelona this February

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  • December 29, 2011 at 10:17 am

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Samsung Galaxy S III concept render

Samsung Mobile has had a good year, mostly because of the success of the Galaxy S II, the biggest selling Android smartphone to date. Samsung was also a launch partner for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, as the manufacturer for the Galaxy Nexus (read our complete review here), while even the company’s mammoth 5.3-inch Galaxy Note has managed to ship one million units in two months.

Running on a potent Samsung Exynos chip, the Galaxy S II, still is the fastest smartphone out there, at least according to benchmarks. It makes sense that the company would want to maintain a good tradition, and of course sales figures, with a successor. Word on the street is that we will soon be seeing the Samsung Galaxy S III (SGS3) at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, which opens its doors on February 27, 2012. Note, the image above is just a fan concept render, and not the actual Galaxy S III.
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Sony HMZ-T1 OLED 3D head-mounted display lands at Harrods, London

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  • October 23, 2011 at 11:48 am

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Sony HMZ-T1 3D headset lands at Harrods, London

If you’re passing by the UK this month, you might want to make a visit to London’s luxury department store, Harrods. The UK retailer managed to snap an exclusive on Sony’s new HMZ-T1 OLED 3D head-mounted display until it goes on general sale in the UK at the end of the month. You can get your disorientating hand-ons experience in-store and pre-order one now, if you so please, for £800 (around $1,265) with an end of October release date.

The US release is planned for November and it has been priced at $800 stateside. You might want to check-out our initial coverage, with some tasty info and product shots.
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Sony’s HMZ-T1 OLED 3D head-mounted display is a 750-inch screen in your home

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  • September 5, 2011 at 9:19 am

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Sony HMZ-T1 OLED 3D head mounted display

Sony has been hitting home runs with its new tiny high resolution OLED displays. The company’s latest announcement is a futuristic headset, the HMZ-T1, hosting a pair of 0.7-inch OLED displays. Each display, one for each eye, is capable of a 720p HD resolution (1280 x 720), offering full 3D support for movies and gaming with zero crosstalk — that is, each eye will be seeing a totally different image, unlike current 3D TV technology. Sony is claiming that the experience is similar to being in a movie theater looking at a 750-inch screen from 20 meters away.

OLED panels offer very fast refresh rates, so fast moving action is a non-issue for them, while contrast ratios are also very good because OLEDs can be bright and colorful but at the same time offer deep blacks. Sony has paired the displays with a newly developed optical lens and with 45-degree wide horizontal viewing angles, you can imagine the level of stomach-turning immersion this headset can provide.
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