These video glasses project portable flicks on a big screen that only you can see
By Adam M. Bright Posted 08.31.2006 at 1:00 am 0 Comments

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Tired of squinting at blockbusters on a three-inch portable media player? Connect your device to a personal-display headset, and movies will appear on a virtual three-foot screen that seems to float several feet in front of your face. The goggles let you watch movies from media players, phones and laptops; they can also show films in stereoscopic 3-D. Images from tomorrow´s visors will look even more natural-and so will the headsets.

Click here to check out the the personal video headsets of today and tomorrow.

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