The Z800 3DVisor is a head-mounted display

Head-mounted display

A head-mounted display or helmet mounted display, both abbreviated HMD, is a display device, worn on the head or as part of a helmet, that has a small display optic in front of one or each eye .- Overview :...

 manufactured by eMagin

EMagin

eMagin Corporation positions itself as a leader in personal display systems and Organic light-emitting diode microdisplay technologies. The company manufactures its microdisplays on silicon wafers, which also accommodate signal processing and data-buffering...

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Overview

The main part of the Z800 is a pair of OLED

Organic light-emitting diode

An OLED is a light-emitting diode in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compounds which emit light in response to an electric current. This layer of organic semiconductor material is situated between two electrodes...

 displays with magnifying lenses producing a 40-degree diagonal field of view

Field of view

The field of view is the extent of the observable world that is seen at any given moment....

 for each eye, used to display stereoscopic

Stereoscopy

Stereoscopy refers to a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by presenting two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. Both of these 2-D offset images are then combined in the brain to give the perception of 3-D depth...

 images with a fixed resolution of 800x600 pixels, through the use of the nVidia

NVIDIA

Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

 stereo 3D drivers, or, using later firmware revisions, any source of alterning frames. The visor can also be used as a 2D portable monitor on computers not equipped with an nVidia video card, using another operating system, or Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

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The visor is equipped with a NEC

NEC

, a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government....

 TOKIN combined accelerometer/magnetometer/rate gyroscope 6-degrees of freedom

Degrees of freedom (engineering)

In mechanics, degrees of freedom are the set of independent displacements and/or rotations that specify completely the displaced or deformed position and orientation of the body or system...

 motion sensor used to emulate mouse movements (typically to look around in first person shooters), a pair of ear buds and an integrated microphone

Microphone

A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1877, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...

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External links

• eMagin
• Z800 3DVisor site
• Linux alpha drivers by Adam King