Hi folks,
Was messing around today and well.. found that my head mounted display
can work with beagleboard 
for those interested:
The complete setup:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nishanthmenon/2764768928/in/pool-beagleboard
Parts seperated out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nishanthmenon/2764779570/in/pool-beagleboard
Apologies, but I still need to learn how to take a snap of what I see
inside glasses - I need to figure out how to use my macro lens well 
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
How does it look? Is it usable? I've heard that using these things
damages your eyes and that text is entirely unreadable.
I think that this might be a really good display device since both of
these devices can be powered by very small batteries or solar panels.
I don't see any other way of making this beagle board a mobile device.
I'm really interested in how practical this is. Let me know about it
and shoot some more pictures, please!
Greg,
greg.dutra@gmail.com said the following on 09/19/2008 01:12 AM:
How does it look? Is it usable? I've heard that using these things
I still have a identifiable tux logo with my patch in [1] -
unfortunately have not played beyond that. There is not much luck in
seeing that in mainline kernel yet, but hopefully will happen.
In terms of image quality, my HMD(as in Head Mounted Display) is not the
best in the market - I do see a bit of blue border etc (lcd is 640x480).
Further, despite what Gerald says in [2] my HMD is noiseless when it
works with my PS3, Toshiba VCR and my friend's video ipod - however when
I try with beagleboard, I do see noisy screen. But then, I have been
planning on taking my HMD to office to try it out with an SDP(but I keep
forgetting it).
damages your eyes and that text is entirely unreadable.
Well.. I guess Govt. approval is a requirement for such product ;).. and
well.. though I get headaches wearing it (while on movie marathon) for
4-5 hours, I guess it is no different of me sitting in front of my real
TV. - and yes, I can read text in my movies :D.
I think that this might be a really good display device since both of
these devices can be powered by very small batteries or solar panels.
These are. the HMD I use has it's own battery pack and is independent of
the source. Since I now have beagleboard running off AA batteries, I am
mobile with display. I think more of this as a voice interactive system
with beagle in the picture.(learning about festival and sphinx2 for that!).
I don't see any other way of making this beagle board a mobile device.
I'm really interested in how practical this is. Let me know about it
Well.. that is my view exactly. in terms of practicality - the
bottleneck is in s/w required - h/w is already there. plug in a USB hub
and you get GPS, ethernet/WLAN/Modem, camera etc.. As far as s/w - I do
not like either ubuntu/angstrom/maemo/android - as they are designed
primarily as desktop/embedded machine with screen and
keyboard,mouse/touchscreen - I feel we need some sort of different
distrib which is designed for HMD + audio configurations - that I think
will be the true power - usage without keyboards, keypads and
Touchscreen/mouse.. very minimal buttons. This I feel requires a bit of
new apps, new distribs and new integration mechanisms.
and shoot some more pictures, please!
Errr.... let me set something up.. let the photo shoot ;)!!
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/dc11612c4d6533cf/78cf140584cbe070?lnk=gst&q=s-video#78cf140584cbe070