/diy/ - Do It Yourself

pretty sure this has been done with glasses, i remember seeing some on tv that ran on frickin win 3.11! that said i think its still mostly military grade. however it would be pretty sweet if you could combine this with the IR helmet another anon made a thread about earlier to get night vision glasses.

I already wear glasses, so I'm hoping I can do bounced laser light from a side-mounted small laser right into my eye.

Of course, as DIY projects go, I don't really want to go blind.

hahaha yes i was going to say, shining a laser into your eye doesnt sound like a plan. an alternative might be to mount a small LCD screen infront of your face, if you take the backlight off they're generally see-thru-ish. probably leave you cross eyed and/or screws with your focus. doing it infront of one eye and wearing it on a different side each day would probably help.
infact now that you mention it, i do remember some shit some ausfags did where they manage to project quake onto glasses, and you ran around with a backpack/headset blasting enemies. i cant quite remember what it was called now/have to go out, but if i can find it later i'll post a link.

>>115882
Please, when you're back then let me know.

For safety, I was thinking of first using an ultra-low power laser, or -- and I have not researched this yet -- maybe some sort of LED beam, if they can be focused. It might not matter though, depending on what you do.

I did read recently that there were some low-res LED contact lenses in development, but I'd be too worried about the heat these generated cooking my eyeballs over time.

>>115882
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARQuake
http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/arquake/
http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/
the glasses arent see-thru i think, its like a virtualboy with a forward facing camera.

This thread rocks. You guys are way more helpful than my regular hangout (/g/).

Recon Instruments MOD seem cool.
http://www.reconinstruments.com/products/mod

Saw your thread in /g/ and tried to post only to meet a 404.

>>115895
I try my best to help when I can on /g/. I'm also tired of the shitposting and gentoo trolls, and apologize for the lack of quality of my home board. If there's anything i can do to improve it, I do so.
Polite sage.

These are ski goggles with integrated GPS, speed etc display.
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but they seem to be heading in the right direction.
http://www.zealoptics.com/z3.html

>>115931
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>mfw I'm using Nightly 12

Apologies for your difficulties anon.
They have a video showing the goggles?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9u1mUlK8qg

There are working prototypes in military (special ops tried them out some time ago, no idea about the results).

We've got most of the tech, TBH.


There's probably a long way yet for it to be available to general public.

>>115934
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>>115865
I've been looking for a way to DIY this kind of thing too OP. My idea would be to get a super-high resolution transparent LED matrix and affix it to a pair of goggles.

I'm wondering about this too. I want a HUD embedded in my glasses. Not anything fancy, mind you, just something which can display monochrome text and such. Now, I KNOW this is entirely possible to create.

But it seems like people have completely skipped making such a thing in favor of developing full color computer displays embedded in contact lenses, which is just silly, because I guarantee you it will be YEARS before those become available.

if you used the LCD screens from a mobile phone this might be plausible-ish. focus is going to be a big problem obviously, though presumably not insurmaountable. and again, the virtualboy+camera technique ought to be fairly doable too, although the resoluion would be mediocre.

i understand that some nightvision bino/monoculars use screens inside of them also, but the cheapest ones tend to be $250+ however they do include the lenses to help with focusing.
to project onto your current glasses is wildly optimistic i think. certainly i would expect that they would at least need a special coating inside, so sunglasses is a better starting point probably.

also /g/imps doesnt really know much about technology past rating newegg carts and telling everyone to replace mac OS with gentoo. /diy/ is certainly one of the most interesting/education/practical boards, /k/ is pretty awesome too (though more focused (on killing)). the pace here is good too, couple days for a thread to 404 allows them to develop a bit. the only thing that pisses me off is the gore/senseless mutilation of classic consoles threads.

bump for interest

the obvious solution is to line some glasses with this:
http://www.3m.com/product/information/Vikuiti-Rear-Projection-Film.html
then fit a tiny lo-res projector onto each side of the glasses before the ear but out of peripheral vision.
Power would be an issue with this device as you would have to fit batteries inside the frame of the glasses, you could run a wire down from the head but that just makes u look like a tryhard.

Perhaps modify some headphones to carry the power (maybe some earbuds that attach to the glasses themselves)

LCD contact lenses.
Get them.

>>116781

>yfw you close your eyes and keep seeing shit

>>116781
lolno, not anytime soon.

Resolution needs to be cranked up about 10x for it to be anywhere useful, and 30x for it to look smooth. AFAIK, there's also a bunch of problems with pixels of one color, but I forgot what was that about.

HUD on lenses is the future, tho. Gotta only hope that there will be no commercials that you're unable to stop watching, as closing your eyes might not be enough to turn the vision off (assuming that there will be similar restrictions, and there probably will be)

>>116791
>mfw it's called robotripping

I am looking into similar matters (trying to build an optical finder for a camera with HUD).
What you will be looking for is:
- optical collimation (so that the HUD and meatspace are in focus at the same time) and optics in general
- translucent mirrors to redirect the image of the projection device / microdisplay

my current solution would be something like what is built into the Fujifilm X100 and X1Pro (google them, they are interesting cameras, viewfinder wise).
One problem with that is that it would add quite some bulk to your glasses, but I cannot think of any decent solution that does not have the display perpendicular to the lens of your glasses (except of maybe glass fibers).
The second would be field of view (which would be quite restricted if you add a frame for the mirror), but that is more or less a balance issue between bulk. The bigger your optics get, the more field of view your HUD can cover.
And the last problem would be chromatic aberrations everywhere if the lenses you are going to use for collimation are cheap/low quality/uncoated/badly fitted for your application.

I would by the way not use the projector approach because the light intensity of such a thing is way too high if the light source is not somehow altered. Microdisplays like pictured are more feasible (and probably also much more compact and sturdy).

Good luck. It will be difficult, but it will also be extremely interesting if you could pull this off.