Graham, thanks for the MOD link. Would be nice if it had more than a few glossy pictures on it, though... I can't see anything that shows how the projector fits to goggles, or of goggles with a projector fitted... I had to download the manual to get information, only then did the install video make sense; the projector fits inside the goggles. I like it...
It's starting to look something like the ideas I had for FIST, when I worked on it briefly in 1997; a virtual-retinal projector coupled to a dynamic-data GIS to project terrain and other useful overlays into the soldier's eye, enhancing his natural vision.
And I've been wondering when this will become available to the public, and skiing was one obvious application (having struggled with the hopeless piste map and lack of piste signage in La Thuile again this year.
I'm sure I've wibbled on about the idea on OM before, but I can't find it in my links system...
Nearest I can find is this or this (BG's comment) or this.
Ah, pehaps it was on UKC, in 2002... My prediction about eBooks turned out pretty good (cf Kindle). The head-up display prediction was about spot-on, then; ten years on from 2002, we have them...
'People will use their leisure time to create free intellectual property, along the lines of the GNU and Linux communities, only this will spread into all aspects of life. The problem, as now, will be deciding what is trustworthy, and what is dross.'
Sounds about right, too...
