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wraggster
March 21st, 2012, 10:51
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Patent applications (http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/15/sony-head-control-patent/) are full of hope and broken dreams, as it's far too easy to let a rampant imagination read beyond the layers of patent-attorney penned boilerplate. In the realm of the realistic, this application from Microsoft (http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/16/microsoft-says-there-will-be-no-talk-of-new-xbox-hardware-at-e3/) concerns a head-mounted display with a narrow-beam laser packing two dilation optics (us neither). If you then variate the diffraction grating between the two eyepieces, you create a three-dimensional virtual reality display. As much as we'd like to prowl the digital touchlines inFifa Soccer with the Xbox equivalent of the Virtual Boy (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/21/nintendo-virtual-boy-review/), it's more likely that we'll be stuck prowling our couches for years to come.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/19/microsoft-application-head-mounted-display/