Selfmade HMD vision

I was unable to find a cheep monocular HMD with 800x600 and VGA input.

Stereoscopic HMD's with this specs starts at 650€ and have to be modded for monocular use.
Native Monoculars HMD's start above 1 k€
Also 640x480 units come mostly with composite input, what is a catastrophe.

So I decided to make my own HMD, well not from scratch but almost.

I'm going to get a cheep Pico Beamer, like: http://geizhals.at/a509791.html

Ok it  has only 640x480 but (!) it has VGA input to the few pixels will at least be sharp.
Oh and it costs only 70€ thats the half of the cheapest stereoscopic 640x480 composite input HMD.

So if its going to work it will be a solution that is honestly worth its price.


In theory I need only to separate the projection unit from the PCB and put some long flexible cable in between, and adapt the optics a little bit, so that the image will be sharply projected on a post stamp sized screen which is then focused by one lens so that it can be viewed sharply by the human eye.


The unit should arrive soon so stay tuned, for some dissection pictures and further details on how to made your very own custom HMD.