{"id":760,"date":"2007-10-19T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/760"},"modified":"2007-10-19T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:07:13","slug":"head-up-display-for-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/760","title":{"rendered":"Head-up display for athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technology.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn12807&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/informance.jpg\" alt=\"informance.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"250\" height=\"93\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:10px 0px 0px 10px\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Sunglasses company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodenstock.com\/\">Rodenstock<\/a> presented <em>Informance<\/em>, a &#8220;design study for the spectacles of the future&#8221; at this year&#8217;s OPTI trade fair in Munich. Made in conjunction with UK-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgeconsultants.com\/\">Cambridge Consultants<\/a>, these are a pair of sunglasses with a 160 x 120 pixel head-up-display embedded in the glasses. The design looks similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/thad-microoptical.gif\">prism-in-glasses<\/a> approach that MicroOptical (now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myvu.com\/\">Myvu<\/a>) did about 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big problems with the old in-glasses-style MicroOpticals was that the field-of-view was small enough that you really needed a custom fit to put the display in the right location, and even then it was hard to use when walking or running. MicroOptical&#8217;s display was at the center rather than the edge of the glasses, which may make a difference \u2014 given that Rodenstock intends athletes to use this to see heart-rate, time, etc., I certainly hope so.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn12807&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\">NewScientistTech<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/10\/19\/informance-shades-give-athletes-a-heads-up-display\/\">engadget<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/fairyshaman.blogspot.com\/\">Fairyshaman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technology.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn12807&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/legacy\/informance.jpg\" alt=\"informance.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"250\" height=\"93\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:10px 0px 0px 10px\" \/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Sunglasses company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodenstock.com\/\">Rodenstock<\/a> presented <em>Informance<\/em>, a &#8220;design study for the spectacles of the future&#8221; at this year&#8217;s OPTI trade fair in Munich. Made in conjunction with UK-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgeconsultants.com\/\">Cambridge Consultants<\/a>, these are a pair of sunglasses with a 160 x 120 pixel head-up-display embedded in the glasses. The design looks similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/thad-microoptical.gif\">prism-in-glasses<\/a> approach that MicroOptical (now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myvu.com\/\">Myvu<\/a>) did about 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big problems with the old in-glasses-style MicroOpticals was that the field-of-view was small enough that you really needed a custom fit to put the display in the right location, and even then it was hard to use when walking or running. MicroOptical&#8217;s display was at the center rather than the edge of the glasses, which may make a difference \u2014 given that Rodenstock intends athletes to use this to see heart-rate, time, etc., I certainly hope so.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn12807&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\">NewScientistTech<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/10\/19\/informance-shades-give-athletes-a-heads-up-display\/\">engadget<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/fairyshaman.blogspot.com\/\">Fairyshaman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wearable-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}