Lenovo launches face-mounted monitor
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/09/02/lenovo_wearable_display/
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The “Lenovo T1 wearable display” offers a pair of OLED 1920 X 1080 displays – one for each eye – in the form of a pair of glasses. Speakers are included. Here it is!
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The Lenovo t1 wearable display
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Lenovo says the device is “Compatible with many of today’s modern smartphones, tablets, and laptops with full-function USB-C” and can also be hooked up to iOS devices with the use of two adapters -one from Lenovo, another from Apple.
Windows devices are supported: you could hook this up to a laptop or desktop if it has video over USB-C capability.
Lenovo reckons punters will use the device to get the feel of a larger screen when using a smartphone or laptop, or to improve privacy by directing content into the wearable display instead of inviting shoulder surfers to have a look.
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The device is Lenovo-centric, with the Chinese hardware giant’s laptops and Motorola * smartphones that include Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 series processor or better currently certified to use it. The iPhone 12 and 13, and Samsung’s Galaxy S21 are also compatible. All are premium devices, suggesting the market Lenovo has in mind for the device.
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PCs from other vendors will be “tested for compatibility and added over time.”
Shoppers outside China, however, must wait until 2023 to get their hands (and faces) on the device. Middle Kingdom buyers will get their chance to buy “in late 2022” at a price to be disclosed once the machine goes on sale.
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Lenovo has also updated its foldable laptop, with the ThinkPad X1 Fold now offering a 2024×2560 16-inch display and an optional keyboard that “can magnetically attach to the lower half of the display for a classic laptop mode giving a full performance, 12-inch laptop experience.”
Another newbie is an enterprise Chromebox powered by 12th-gen Core i5 processors, quite an engine for ChromeOS. ®
* Lenovo owns Motorola’s smartphone biz.
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Re: "get the feel of a larger screen"
I've not tried these systems, but I'd hope they have some way of accommodating (ho ho) people with short or long sight, but I'm not sure if there is any cheap, general way of making the necessary adjustments to compensate for astigmatism.
I'm sure someone could come up with a head-mounted system that projected an image through a user's existing spectacles, making use of the corrections provided by them, but I suspect it would be bulky, not cheap, and almost certainly not cool.
How long until..
There's a news article of some sod jacking it on public transport wearing these?
Re: How long until..
My guess - about 30 minutes from the point that they become widely available.
April fool!
Can't wait
I like bumping into things
having deep grooves on the bridge of my nose
lots of dangly wires around my face
splitting headache ...
Will they be like Googleglass?
You watch the screens.
Screen watches you, and everyone around you as well.
Hopewfully not, but....
Didn't someone already did it?
a face-mounted wearable monitor
Apple version imminent : The iStrain.
I'd like to try it
Maybe it benefits my back and neck, not constraining me to always orient myself towards a fixed monitor?
I was also interested in the DJI Goggles 2 (NOT the DJI FPV Goggles v2) for that purpose.
Does anyone know if the DLNA support in the DJI Goggles means that you can stream video TO or FROM a desktop?
"get the feel of a larger screen"
I'm pretty sure my laptop already has a better resolution than that.
Besides, I need reading glasses now, so this gadget will be completely useless for me.
But hey, it's nice to see that all those VR headsets have been practically kneecapped by this new toy.