July, 2012

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Awesome VR Optics for 1? Class Displays At Less Than Ten Dollars!

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Professional wide field of view Virtual Reality optics for less than the price of a couple of double lattes! A while back I demonstrated a design for Leep On The Cheap , a proof of concept for wide field of view optics on 3″ to 4″ display panels. Trouble was… there was quite a bit of distortion and chromatic aberration. However, it sparked quite a bit of thought and development in the VR DIY community.

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Dump Those Silly Colored 3D Glasses

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They say you’re not a true 3D enthusiast until you’ve got a shelf full of red/cyan and green/magenta anaglyph 3D glasses. I’m ready to dump mine in the waste bin, but there’s this little problem; two more shelves of anaglyph DVD, BluRay and VHS movies collected over the years. Soon the studios will start to release the latest blockbusters in full color BluRay 3D, but somehow I doubt they’ll find the time or budget to convert “Comin’ At Ya” or ̶

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