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Article: For your eyes only: Glimpse of future Company says it can deliver first headset with big-screen digital view
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 17, 2002
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Here's one for the gadget head who has everything else: A high-
tech headset that creates a home theater to go.
The first headset with the big-screen digital view, known as i-
glasses HRV (high resolution video), goes for $700 (portable DVD
player not included).
Jeff Fergason, chief executive of Menlo Park, Calif.-based i-O
Display Systems, which sells the headsets at a Web site, said,
"People have long dreamed of portable displays so they could see
video anywhere."
He said the eight-ounce i-glasses are the "first head-mounted HDTV
(high-definition television)" screen.
When plugged into a DVD player, TV set, video camera, Xbox,
Nintendo or PlayStation game console, laptop computer or VCR, ...