Anyone using the new Vuzix VR Headsets?

[Vulcan]

My emagin's died, and I'm thinking of the Wrap 920VR or Wrap 1200VR (when it comes out).

The new 6DoF trackers look attractive too.

[jimson]

All I can say is the VR920 was a big disappointment. I couldn't even read gauges or the text buffer with it.

Mine now has a damaged cord and I haven't even bothered to send it back in for repair.

While the Wrap920VR might be an improvement, it would need to be a big one before I would try it.

The VR 1200 is supposed to be out next month. If anything, I'd wait for it.

852 x 480 doesn't seem a huge leap up from 640x480, but I don't fully understand all the native and scaled resolution lingo.

One thing that will be a big improvement is the independent +2 to -5 diopter focus adjustment.

That feature alone might have made the 920 usable for me.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

All I can say is the VR920 was a big disappointment. I couldn't even read gauges or the text buffer with it.

Mine now has a damaged cord and I haven't even bothered to send it back in for repair.

While the Wrap920VR might be an improvement, it would need to be a big one before I would try it.

The VR 1200 is supposed to be out next month. If anything, I'd wait for it.

852 x 480 doesn't seem a huge leap up from 640x480, but I don't fully understand all the native and scaled resolution lingo.

One thing that will be a big improvement is the independent +2 to -5 diopter focus adjustment.

That feature alone might have made the 920 usable for me.

The low resolution can be an unreadable mess if you try to use 'interpolated' non-native higher resolution. The image will become blurry and unreadable opposed to getting sharper and better as you would expect. Could that be a reason yours was so disappointing? Did you run it at 640x480 or did you force the resolution higher? IIRC its possible to raise the resolution but at the expense of image quality.

[jimson]

I don't really remember.

I don't even know what interpolated means.

I don't think I was savvy enough to intentionally force a higher resolution, so I would guess I was using it on whatever it defaulted to.

[Vulcan]

Yeah that could have been the problem. The Z800 is 800x600, so I figure the 1200 will be close. The text buffer readability is always an issue with VR and text that stays on the edges. VR headsets are designed for the user to turn their head to focus on what they're reading - if HTC made the text a 'floaty' 3d object down in the cockpit it'd be sweet. For the gauges I have zoomed mapped to a rotary on my throttle, so I could quickly look down to read gauges.

The diopter adjustment attracted me too, the z800 didn't have that and I have a dominant left eye.