On 11/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've always thought it would be useful to be able to plug a head mounted display into my PDA. If nothing else, this would allow me to use smaller fonts and still be able to read them. Most head mounted displays take standard VGA input, and all PDAs (and smart phones) use LCDs which of course are digital and thus completely different from the analog raster/scan interface of VGA. But I wonder: If the smart phone has a USB 2.0 host port (I know v1 is only USB 1.0), then one could connect a USB video adapter, and then plug the the head mounted display into that. If we had such an ability, what cool applications and use cases would this enable, that might justify it? Interesting? Useful? Silly? Practical? Michael _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
It wouldn't help for HMD's, but the possibility of exporting application displays out over USB networking (uhg) or something faster is intriguing as well, you could have a full size keyboard and monitor for your app, without worrying about any connections other than network. I know this functionality is built into X, but I've only used it for GUIs from a big bad solaris box... don't know about from an embedded guy -- --Jeff What DO you call whitewater when you live in the desert?
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