SONY HMZ-T1 private viewer/eyewear
The gaming network and movie buffs are raving about the release of the Sony HMZ-T1 non-public viewer; The unit first rolled out on eleven/eleven/eleven. Within days it bought out world-huge & pre-orders are being accepted for the second wave of gadgets to hit the marketplace across the start of Feb.2012. I managed to get my arms on a unit currently so this text is based upon my personal arms on revel in with the Sony HMZ-T1.
So what exactly is this Sony personal viewer & does it stay up to the hype?
Basically, it is a pair of high tech wrap around glasses you pull down over your eyes. Two very small (0.7-inch) OLED (1280x720p) monitors are placed in front of your eyes that create a phantasm of a massive theater display screen at once in front of you. If you were to the region your face 6″ from a 19″ display, youget a sense of how massive the display is. An easy analogy might be to imagine yourself self-sitting in a huge film theater all by myself: just you and that first-rate massive film display about five rows in the front of you. The experience itself is surely first-rate. But greater about the real experience quickly.
First impressions make an enduring effect…
My initial effect of the unit turned into that it regarded really smaller than I’d predicted. Much smaller in evaluation to the advertised pictures I’d seen online. The front becomes enclosed in a white plastic that felt like a substitute flimsy. It’s actually not a nicely-constructed product as I noticed each slide button, keeping straps & typical plastic density to be as a substitute cheap looking. I’m no engineer but I felt most people of the outside hardware pieces have been likely instantly out of China. But howdy, I’m now not too interested in the outside aesthetics of the tool as I changed into extra intrigued, but what goes on within this little wondrous device
I Hit begin
So after fiddling around, adjusting head strap, ear portions and the horizontal distance of the OLED monitors I finally powered the unit up… Wow…. I became presented with a shiny blue display that became surrounded in darkness other than a touch mild spilling in from below my cheeks. On the right side are menu buttons that permit you to navigate a setup menu that appears on screen. After calibrating the unit for satisfactory visual performance & HDMI in, that’s proper, it supports HDMI. I hit begin on a Blu-ray player.
Kapow! The visuals have been remarkable… I imply I became genuinely drop-jawed… This aspect is rattling cool! I feel it well worth bringing up, I have owned more than one different personal visors over the years, such as the Emagine z800 & the new Sony blows every other eye put on out the water. The resolution is so crisp & clean, the assessment of color is superb.
Having praised Othe LED display screen era, I’d also like to point out that simply around the nook Sony are investing in QD. (Quantum Dots) Light-emitting particles which can be a hundred,000 times smaller than the width of a human strand of hair can be published onto bendy plastic that may be rolled up or maybe published onto big sheets of paper to create giant monitors. Just consider a non-public visor using QDs on a bendy display screen that wraps around your peripheral vision. But for now we are glad with OLED displays.
Shiny Blue display screen. Mmmm
So wherein were we. Oh sure, the Sony HMZ. I became impressed, inspired. The Blu-ray film I watched become a Pixar 3D animation known as Monster House. So I was able to check out the 3-D intensity that is one of the gadgets many important features. By using dual OLED screens, Sony has neutralized issues plaguing 3DTV normally called “crosstalk” The audio is crisp, clean with sincerely excellent bass. I adjusted the audio ranges to my liking & become pretty impressed.
What..No Head TRACKING… What had been they questioning?
I am slightly disenchanted that Sony hasn’t taken an additional step & incorporated head tracking into the unit. Head monitoring would supply the person with the potential to play 1st individual style games, developing greater immersive digital fact enjoy. For example, if your appearance up, the image display pans upward. There is a simple solution. One can without difficulty connect Natural Factor’s TrackIR device. I even have attempted TrackIR with numerous HMDs (head established gadgets ) & discovered the display refresh price non-existent with ultra-modern computer hardware.
Such a tool yearns to be let loose…
I’m handiest speculating here, but I sense Sony are merely testing the waters to look if there is a big enough market to help this kind of device. This is, in any case, a prototype for them. I feel sure features about this unit show it’s nonetheless in its infancy, not a totally-fledged tool designed to accommodate a mass market. Take, as an instance, the separate HDMI interface. This is glaringly a surplus outer hardware case from something like a TV tuner or similar device. Sony has tethered this to the visor with a 2m lengthy cable. It’s as if many surplus parts have virtually been scavenged. The HDMI through box restricts the wearer from ever going cell with this device. Such a tool yearns to be let loose… Plug n play SWTOR ( Starwars the vintage Republic) for example at the same time as lazing on a beach or taking an extended train journey.
The Future’s so vivid… I gotta wear sunglasses…
The Walkman of the twenty-first Century. Hhhmm… Perhaps the earphones date lower back to the early Nineteen Eighties styled Walkman earphones, simply kidding. I don’t think we even had Dolby surround sound again then. Come to think about it… I do recollect one nutty Professor from the film Back to the Future sporting a pair of whacked-out futuristic-looking sunglasses whilst he returned from what date became it… 2012 perhaps?? With a charge of $800.00 U.S, the unit glaringly received be underneath every kids Christmas tree however if manufacturing is stepped up possibly inside a year charges might also drop to beneath $four hundred.00. But I would not get your hopes up.
