The price difference between the myvu and the vuzix one is clearly the 3d capability. And I am an 100% 3d fan therefore i wouldn`t consider myvu at all. 3d is the future!! But it really depends on what you are looking for.

I also wear glasses and was wondering if anyone bought the clip-on’s offered by MyVu, and what type of experiences you had with them. I am a disabled cancer patient so have to spend a lot of time in bed (Or in the Hospital), and wanted these for a couple of things. Primarily I love on-line gaming and felt these would be great to hook up to my PC with my recliner. Has anyone used these for that type of thing? I have a GeForce 9500 graphics card with VGA and DVI output. Any suggestions on an adapter that can be used to hook up to the MyVu Crystal?

Have any of you heard anything about the Trimmerson VR Headgear?

Thanks

Thanks,

Gerry

I’m very near sighted, and had to keep my glasses on to use this product. Maybe it’s due to the fact that I’m at that age where bifocals are going to be a necessity. Yay – not. ;o)

Scott

Thanks for all the info that you provided. I still want to try the Crystal glasses at some point.

Answer me this… you say that you wear the glasses to bed… so, if you had a very nice / large flat panel HD display mounted on the ceiling, would you still prefer it to the glasses? Just curious.

I think glasses will work as I do wear them for normal every day stuff, I did try them on with glasses and I rather not wear them because it does touch the lens of the glasses. Since I’m 20/15 vision I just leave them off to use the viewer. I found that a personal feature of a man’s larger nose might make the difference for all the HID systems out there that sit on the bridge of the nose. Mine leaves a little read mark on my bridge but it goes away quick. I got the Crystal Viewer hooked up to my Canon XL2 Video Camera, and for some fun with a little practice on a vest and stabilizer arm from GlideCam you can look about as cool as it gets, and get the shot of a life time.

I like both of the HID I have but prefer the Crystal over the Solo because as you noted that the arms on the viewer over the ears are not the most comfortable in the world. I wear the Solo to bed mostly, and the the Ear Plug Speakers fit nice into the ears even laying on my side. I don’t care much for that design of the rigged arm like protrusion with the speaker on the end of it for your ears, not well thought out at all.

I do look like something from Battlestar Galactica when in bed at night with the Glasses on and in my case a full face respirator I have to sleep with on all night. If I had the guts I’d post a picture, but my fear of showing up on some YTube Site with the title of “Forget the Tree Man, look at this poor sole!”

Scott

Thank you so much for your comments. It’s really nice to have someone else to add their experience with this product to mine. I was worried that I might be too picky about the display. From what you say, I guess I’m not ;o)

Now I want to try the Myvu Crystal to do a comparison )

BTW: do you wear glasses? Do you find the Vuzix (and the Myvu) to be comfortable to wear?

I’m a big BIG Fan of your site, and make it part of my daily rounds of keeping up to date on the tech items, as I’m a buy-oholic. I wanted to add to this because this is one of the few items when it comes to HID units that you don’t see many people getting jazzed about anymore.

I own a few of these, and just this past May, Buy.com offered up the “MyVu PMV-1003i Personal Media Viewer Solo” for $57.00. I just jumped for this because it’s the same version as the one you reviewed here, except the 1003i plugs right into the iPod drawing power off of it for the glasses. I get 2.5 Hours off the iPod using it this way, but there’s no external box to plug into. This version uses the Dock Connector on the bottom of my iPod Video 80 model, and the cord goes right into the glasses. It does have a small dongle on the cord for controls of Contrast, Brightness, and Volume.

The screen resolution is also 1/3 that of the AV920 if you use their calculations of RGB being read as 307200 per color channel for each of the R, G, B, so you get 307200 x 3 = 921600 pixels for 640×480 resolution. The solo I got in May has a Matched Resolution of 320 x 240 (QVGA) from the iPod to the glasses, and the real resolution of this is 76800 per color of RGB = 230400 total pixels.

Why all the numbers? Well they say it’s almost 1M Pixel count on the AV920, but it’s really 1/3 of that in the real world of 307200 pixels total resolution. The bigger question is can you see a difference between the two…Nope You can Not.

If you really want to be dazzled, you should see if you can your hands on the new Myvu Crystal viewer that just came out (http://www.myvu.com/Crystal.html) It has the same resolution of the AV920, but has a very different Field of View at 22.5 degrees which really does add to the visual quality of the HID. It’s a real WOW factor that I didn’t think would produce for me. One of the nice things I like about the Myvu Crystal is I can link it up with my Canon XL2 Video camera, and I can’t begin to tell you the looks I get when I use it with that – It’s priceless!

NOTE: I don’t work for any of these companies, I’m just a consumer. I do consult on high end items for a select clientele I have a following of, but most are for the Richie Rich of the world.

[Edited at August 22, 2008 18:37:06 PM.]

I didn’t notice any ghosting problems with the various videos I watched during testing.

Thank you, thank you very much )

I was hoping that I could use them without my glasses too. They do work WITH your glasses though – they are just a bit uncomfortable unless you’re laying flat on your back.

from my limited optical knowledge of the human eye i was hoping they would work well even without my glasses… so i was a bit surprised when you told me they do not… that kinda ended the dream there and then !!!