Vuzix Forums / General / Feedback and Suggestions

Solution to REsolution issue (?)

zzzap — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:34:06 GMT

The VR920 supports resolutions not higher than 1024x768 at 60 Hz. At this resolutions most web pages now-a-days tends to be bigger if they are coded in the wrong way or simply contains so much information that they can't fit in my web browser at this resolution.

What if the LCD's inside the unit, while not in a d3d fullscreen application, didn't need to show the whole desktop at once, and using head tracking to move around?

This way I can still browse the web at full monitor resolutions, getting all web pages to fit in my browser (and maybe read the text clearly too), while taking advantage of the units' full potential, except the 3D functionality of course, but that's another story.

This can be done in a firmware update right?

JPS 3D viewer on a 64-bit XP pro system

zzzap — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:15:50 GMT

It won't install :( The installer won't detect my 64-bit Windows XP.

Maybe wrong forum, but it is "feedback", kinda. :P

New AV920 firmware to support other 3D content?

PieterMX — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:34:39 GMT

I don't know if it is technical possible, but it would be great to add support for some other types of 3D content to the AV920 (and other glasses) using a firmware upgrade. Currently the AV920 supports:

Interlaced-Left (interlacing filter, left first)
Interlaced-Right (interlacing filter, right first)

However a lot of 3D content uses other techniques to seperate left and right:

- Side-by-side
- Above-below
- Anaglyph

Can this please please please be added on a firmware upgrade for the AV920?

Any new VR products in the works?

bgaviator — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:27:20 GMT

Can anyone from Vuzix at least confirm that there is a new version of the VR glasses in the works? I really do want a product like this, but I am willing to wait for a newer, better model that incorporates a lot of the suggestions people have been making to Vuzix. What's the status????

VR920 and Xbox 360

Kyoku57 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:00:59 GMT

It can be interesting to imagine this device with XBox 360 because this system is very similar to a PC, and I'm sure that the driver can be adapted to this media. We can imagine little 3D game on the market place, or to get some 3D video from the video download center of the Xbox. It just an idea but I don't know why I couldn't work (USB port and VGA capabilities).

The Bad!

CrowGlow — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:56:21 GMT

I got my VR920 working, but got no game or simulation.. Why was no JPS builder or even Panorama tool with the cd?? Nothing to get the creativity going? No cube/room or picture program at all..You get so less of VR experience this way, I miss those cool draws took!:hehe: not even a sad smiley theres!?! btw that space shuttle demo never install... Its weak for being glasses coming.. it would be BIG BIIIG! as release a force, not a sigh!!! ?:w00t:

FeedBack after 6 month of use

Kyoku57 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:56:58 GMT

[url=http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-2568347713782097179]http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-2568347713782097179[/url]

I wait for the next step (bigger screen, better calibration and integration in game). Thanks to Vuzix for their glasses and a big thank you to Carl Kenner and it GlovePIE which permits me to use Lock On with them. The native support in this game is awful (with mouse emulation)...track IR émulation is better with a little script to smooth movement. :D

Tchuss

For Christmas

Kyoku57 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:42:09 GMT

PS : Sorry if my english is bad.

Dear Santa Claus,

I wish for my christmas, a video player for 3d movie, provide with my VR920 and new driver able to remove or smooth jitter on yaw axis. If you can add new funny software like the mp3 player in 3D, or add compatibility with audiosurf, you will transform me into the happiest adult on the web.

Thanks Santa !

:)

My feedback

Ultrano — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:17:53 GMT

Got my pair after paying ~50% extra for customs, but it was well worth it, even though I'm near-sighted :D
Got immersed in just 2 minutes.

Things I loved:
- the stereo effect is immediately apparent
- the color is great
- the resolution seems just fine. Higher resolutions (if available in future products) will be rendered useless if the optics cannot be perfectly adjusted physically.
- the adjustable nose pads are fine
- ear-buds can be removed, did so immediately - to make use of my superior soundcard with ear-buds I like and simulated 7.1->stereo sound (EAX doesn't sound real in 2-speakers mode)
- eyeshield is fine, though with my elongated face it doesn't cover even half of the environment. Easily countered with a dark room or a black veil around head.
- distance between temples is fine for me, though for a bit larger person the temples may squeeze the head painfully.
- head-tracking is much better than I expected (I thought it uses accelerometers, not magn. gyroscopes), though not easy to calibrate. Maybe because there is significant magnetic interference near my PC (it's just under a GSM transmitter..).
- the unit is very light for me, while my younger sister found it a bit heavy.
- the ability to watch resolutions like 1680x1050 by using the mouse to concentrate on a specific area is nifty!

Software, that can be improved (I think) (I'm a gamedev programmer and an electronics-hobbyist) :
- JPS viewer is too barebones, but just adding VK_LEFT/VK_RIGHT to select another image is necessary. Btw, the photos of a raptor and three jet-fighters should be accented on, they feel most real.
- the demoscene-like demos (Visualizer) maybe should add a bit more "close encounters" with the objects there, for better stereo-effect. On demo-kiosks or the like, this can be a great selling point. In the demo, I felt threatened when a golden cube morphed into a spiky ball and approached, I almost stepped back XD
- adjustable FOV and distance between eyes in games. (if the projection-matrix is accessible, but I doubt it). HL2 looks almost fine FOV-wise, while CS:S doesn't imho.
- hack in firmware to adjust distance between eyes by simply moving the image a few pixels horizontally (this will make the screen show only i.e 630x480). I'm not sure whether this will work well with the lenses/optics.
- I'm kind of hoping for a separately-sold input adapter, that converts composite/s-video/component color to RGB-VGA, and lets the firmware deinterlace and upscale. Though marketing reasons won't allow it, I presume (will make AVxx0 less useful, and the adapter should cost only ~$20, as full-featured converters are just <$80).
- (edit: ) add firmware support for anaglyphs and maybe other types of input, if possible.

Suggestions for future products:
- definitely adjustable optics, if screen resolution is higher: distance between eyes, diopters, and if possible for very mild strabismus.
- or a way to use one's own glasses. (removable nose-pads, 2 attachable hooks with adjustable height for glasses). May need a separate set of lenses, to account for the increased distance from screen to eyes.
Or well, it may be just my problem, as I refuse/cannot put contact lenses (too sensitive eyes)

Vuzix and iZ3D

Partechie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:40:12 GMT

I would like to see Vuzix co-operate with these guys (or those guys with you!)!

I tried their drivers, on my 8800Ultra, and without fail, each game worked with no extra ifile copying or messing around.. (FarCry 2, Bioshock, Crysis, FEAR, WoW)

It may sound like advertising the enemy but their BETA product appears to work better than the original...

(If I am way of the mark, please enlighten me! I do wish to learn!)

Ear piece adjustablity

susuwatari — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:32:13 GMT

If you made the ear piece bendable or able to adjust the length (I've seen other glasses that have a ratched externder) it might be more comfortable. I'm having a problem right now that either the pieces are over my ears, in which case my ears get squished into my head, or behind my ears and my ears get painfully bent backwards.

I realize it's hard to do new R&D on new styling, but you might be able to offer it as an accessory or in the next hardware rev.

What resolution of new AV310?

Mnemonic — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:41:11 GMT

Interesting to know what resolution in new AV310?
There is no such info on the website. But I suggest it's Kopin's 432 x 240 screens (because of near the same price to AV230), is it right?

P.S. Also interesting to know, will Vuzix make a new wide-screen version of PC-based VR eye-wear like VR920 (for example with 854 x 480)?

Where can I buy the new nosepiece?

cybereality — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:18:45 GMT

Look at this, a new nose-piece:

[img]http://www.cybereality.com/images/noseclip_thumb.jpg[/img]

[url=http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/vr920/3.html]http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/vr920/3.html[/url]

They must actually read the forums! But where can I buy this, I don't see it listed anywhere?

Vuzix, if you are reading this: please offer this for sale as an accessory. I think many people would be interested (as long as the price is reasonable, of course).

Thanks.

What I think of the iWear VR920

Steffan — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:07:18 GMT

I think it's awesome!!
I've read all these topics about people having problems with their VR920 and blabla, and I just wanted to say that mine is working [i]perfectly fine[/i].

I'm very happy with it, I've been wishing for more immersion for a long time, because lately, games don't cut it for me anymore.

But now that I have these glasses, I spend hours in front of my pc playing flight sims, shooters, and racing games, having a blast.

If anyone's still contemplating whether to buy one or not, just BUY it, it's worth the money if you're as much into games like me.

So yeah, I just wanted to thank Vuzix for making this possible.
Here goes:

[b][u]T H A N K Y O U, V U Z I X!![/u][/b]

Blue flickering on both screens

Mnemonic — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:10:55 GMT

After using VR920 for one week, I noticed one issue - sometimes when you play, the screens can became bluish, it can flicker with blue color, or just suddenly turn blue, and then suddenly goes ok. It's not always, I tryed my VR920 unit on my work, and as I saw it was ok.

Can this be a temperature issue? Cause now is summer and it's pretty hot in my room. Anybody noticed somethig like that with own VR920?

Head tracking around the desktop

rekliner — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:09:59 GMT

Since the 640x480 resolution makes text very hard to read with a 1024x768 desktop it would make a lot of sense to be able to pan around the desktop using the head tracking. Lots of video drivers already allow for a virtual desktop that is much bigger than the screen's resolution...they pan around as the mouse hits the edges. It would be the same idea except you turn your head slightly to see the extra area of the desktop. Hopefully it's pretty easy to implement since it doesn't require 3d.

I have an injury that often leaves me bedridden, having to rest my neck for hours. It's very hard to use a laptop when laying down without propping up into a sitting position, which defeats the point. Glasses would be great, but Windows isn't easy to use at resolutions below 1024x768. Panning would allow for much larger desktops.

I'm sure there are other good cases for supporting the non-gaming use of the glasses. Privacy when traveling for example. Not having a screen on would keep from waking up my wife at night :). Who knows, it could end up making huge desktop areas very easy to use and become a popular alternative to multiple monitors!

pleasant surprise

mike-uk1 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:06:21 GMT

would just like to thank vuzix for the visualizer it's fantastic it put smiles on the faces of the people who tried it and it really shows off the hardware really well, before with the games they was'nt so overwhelmed a quick five mins on it and they were off! hope you can update it now and then keep up the good work :D

[BUMMER ] Punkbuster

melanor9 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:26:05 GMT

:w00t::w00t:
So, I finished CoD4 SP and decided to try MP in 3d, BUT punkbuster considers injected DLL as some malicious stuff and kicks me from server.

I contacted punkbuster, but to no avail.
Probably Vuzix will have better luck with 'em.

Right now any online action gaming is no-go with VR920. Which makes me saaaad panda.

Very Disappointed

Spod — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:46:27 GMT

I just got the VR920, got it all setup and it works for the most part. But....

I was hoping for immersion that some on this forum seemed to be raving about, but I'm not getting it. When I use this unit, it feel like I'm looking down a dark box which I can see the sides, with a small screen at the other end. I think the screen needs to be closer or bigger, to allow for a part (30% ?) of the peripheral vision to be included in the screen square. I think my cybermaxx had bigger screen/s, albeit poorer quality, but it gave a better sense of immersion from memory, because a part of the peripheral vision was included. If it was issue of LCD size over low retail price, I would have preferred to have spent a further few hundred dollars more for an increase of the LCD size. Maybe they should have a more expensive model that included bigger LCD's.

Head tracking has no tweaking features as far as I can see. I turn my head 90 degrees left or right and the unit only turns 45 degrees or so. I have to turn my head almost 75 degrees to get it to show the 90 degrees angle. I Calibrated according to the manual several times but to still no success in improving it.

But even if HT was working properly, the immersion was the big killer for me. In hind sight, I think I should have bought the latest Trackir and stuck with my 27" monitor.

I'm looking for help with this product so I get the same wow (immersion) factor that others have posted comments about, so no flames from the fanboys please.

I really want VR technology to succeed in order to improve the gaming experience, but at the same time I don't want to fork out hundreds of dollars for a disappointing product.

Deeper 3D

shawn r. l. — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:59:54 GMT

Can someone make a patch that will reset the vantage points of each eye further apart? This will GREATLY improve the depth. Right now, the 3D is only really effective in the cockpit.

So sad

mike-uk1 — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:49:05 GMT

Well what can i say, after being so excited waiting to get it, what a big disapointment.The concept is there but in my opion it just don't work, on any thing from flight sims or fps shooters you just can't see enough for it to be any good if you have to keep looking at your monitor to see what your setting up cant be good, unless my eye's are that bad.Every time you plug the usb in, it knocks your speakers out, there's no choice as far as i can see to switch it over between the 920 & desktop speakers.When i look through my 920 it look's like i got a couple of black breeze blocks down the sides with a tiny screen, i say tiny because you cant read nothing from it, I gave my Bro ago and he sumned them up quiet well, You've paid £200 + for a pair of glasses that dont do much,the best was the 3D pictures of the website !

VR920 & Google earth

Paulov — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:23:43 GMT

Hello.

Watching a video in youtube, I realised how interesting having the headtracking enabled in Google earth would be.

Surfing trough mountains in 3D... mmm would be nice.

Here a real life video of a jet flying trough mountains.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDbMCM_2Zuc&mode=related&search=[/url]

Here, probably the most realistic 3D realtime mountains I´ve evere seen:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGAxRZfS-Fc[/url]

Here the Google Earth emulation.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7RJhQQGya8&mode=related&search=[/url]

So, just say that google earth or the microsofts sequel having the headtracking enabled would be great :Whistling:

Bye Bye.

Jets flying trough mountains...
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dpKqDVRjCA&mode=related&search=[/url]

Xbox 360 controller

mike-uk1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:18:41 GMT

Hi every time i've plugged in my 360 controller on my pc the sound on VR920 goes, breaking up like its a faulty connection, just thought i let you know.Anybody else get that ?

Dot Net SDK

v3ry — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:33:26 GMT

Hello,my game project is in VB.net and the sdk in c++.
I need help for convert this in .Net DLL.

Thanks

Applauding the 2.0 Manual.

mkylli — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:14:21 GMT

Before I read the 2.0 manual I had no idea you could remove and flip the nose bridge to make it work better with glasses.
Now, it might seem obvious to some, but the 1.0.1 manual never makes any note of it. Now that I know and have tested it,
I can use my VR920 with my glasses without it sliding down into a position that makes it virtually useless.
As such, I stand up and applaud the 2.0 Manual.

Nose uncomfortable

Centurion — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:52:31 GMT

As it have small weight, one hour of playing makes your nose pain in places eyewears holds, so you need give it a rest..

Only way i found to solve that is to place "belt" above by head, so weight of eyewears goes not on nose, but on head. Ending points of ears-sticks maked for smaller head than mine, and gives a pain in places of contact, if not being softed with something.

I guess all head fixing should be redesigned, it doesn't fit all heads good..

New Model suggestion

makar110 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:02:33 GMT

Hi, I have a quick suggestion/question to the manufactures and designers of the Vuzix products - any desire to make the best of two worlds so to speak, to make product that will combine all of the extra features of VR920 (like the tracking ability and the mic) and the mobility features of AV920 (like the battery pack and the ability to watch videos on portable devices)?
Also, are there any plans to make a product with HD screens (instead of the regular 4:3 aspect ratio) since most of the video content now is HD?
Thanks in advance.

File hosting on the forums, please??

CarlKenner — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:38:31 GMT

A few people on this forum have tried to share programs and other files they have made for the VR920.

But they have had big problems doing so. I have been using RapidShare, but some people can't access it.

Can you please allow us to attach files to forum posts??

This forum supports attachments, but the attachment total limit is 0 bytes!

Can you please change the forum settings so that we can post maybe 30 megabytes of attachments?

And can you also increase our quotas for private messages? Currently my message box is always full and nobody can send me messages. Messages wouldn't use up much space.

SDK won't return roll past 90, can't detect when upside down.

CarlKenner — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:30:41 GMT

Hi. The SDK returns roll as a value between -90 and 90 degrees.

This is not good enough because you can't detect when the glasses are upsidedown. Euler angles require 2 of the angles to be -180 to 180, and 1 of the angles to be -90 to 90.

Also, the SDK documentation is wrong. It says pitch and roll only go up to +/-70, which is false. They go up to +/-90. Which is the correct behaviour for pitch, but the incorrect behaviour for roll.

The hardware is perfectly capable of supplying the full range of roll values without modification to the firmware. It just needs to use the atan2 function on the horizontal and vertical accelerometer values.

GlovePIE can read the full roll with VR920.StrictRoll or VR920.SmoothRoll if you use the menu to calibrate the VR920 accelerometers.

Suggestion: sponsor mtbs3d.com

CarlKenner — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:42:31 GMT

MTBS3D.com (Meant To Be Seen in 3D) is a stereoscopic advocacy group that tries to pressure game developers, and graphics card manufacturers to support stereoscopic 3D. As you might have noticed the lack of support for stereoscopic 3D products is a big problem.

It has 2000 signed-up members. Currently it is sponsored by iz3D and TDVision.

Sponsoring it would provide both an excellent way of promoting Vuzix products to people who are interested in stereoscopic displays, and would help pressure game developers to support your products. It also allows the stereoscopic community to help out with your driver development.

Link to my problems and suggestions

vanjast — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:12:57 GMT

[url=http://forums.vr920.com/Topic1377-19-1.aspx] Over here[/url]
Trying again...

FIX THE FIRMWARE UPDATE!!!!!

CarlKenner — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:33:33 GMT

EDIT:

Here is a suggestion... make a firmware update that doesn't destroy some people's VR920s. That way people will be able to enjoy all the wonderful new features that Vuzix are generously providing to ungrateful people like me.

Now some people have expensive bricks (although Vuzix is obviously sending out replacements as fast as they can), and I have a free brick. Some people have been able to unbrick their VR920s on their own, and some people have a wonderful new version of their VR920 which they are enjoying and have no complaints about.

Website Needs Videos of Product in Action

NintendoRep — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:24:23 GMT

Hey there,

I just ordered my VR920 the other day and it was a really tough finding any review or even a video of the product in action. The only 3 videos offered on the site are from 3rd party reviewers which briefly (VERY BRIEFLY) show the product in action. What you guys should do is show how the product works in every supported game and makes long demonstrations (VR920 user with a Video Screen in the backgroung to show his view). You don't even need any fancy editing. Just play the games and tape yourself playing the games. Gamers want to see the product in action not read specs. Specifications can only do so much to justify a purchase.

This would be a cheap way to garner more interest in the product. Post videos on youtube while your at it. Please don't make some cheap editing with cheap special FX in your demonstration videos like the other VR-HMD product videos. Just keep it very simple and record people using your product in all supported games.

Quality Product...Sloppy Assembly

Krazz — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:18:13 GMT

I got the AV-230 video eyewear for the holidays. They are great and work very well. BUT!!!

On the glass inside the goggles, there is a bunch of dust crap that is TOTALLY ANNOYING!

This could have been an avoidable problem by using a clean room to assemble and hiring someone at $5/hour to use some canned air, but no, it looks like someone assembled these in their child's sand box in a dust storm.

It's the little things guys...the little things. I wouldn't have noticed a bit of resolution drop here or there, or the bit rate of the sound being a little off, but slinging mud onto the glass portion where my eyes are supposed to watch a show? Unacceptable!!!

I would have given them a 4.5/5.0 but because this company has some sort of issue with 'quality constancy', I give them a 2.0/5.0

Wireless VR920?

Shidash — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:58:12 GMT

Hey,
I was wondering if you have any plans to make the VR920 wireless. I just got one and I love it, but it would be so much cooler if it was wireless. Is this possible? Will this happen? If so, how long will it be?

Green and skintones interchanged

CarlKenner — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:14:59 GMT

Skin tones are often interchanged with a brighter green colour at certain brightness levels. It looks a bit weird. I think it would be better if that didn't happen so much, even if it means the colours look a bit flatter. Something to consider for the next firmware patch.

Head tracking controling mouse

Simba — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:14:51 GMT

I can't tell how disapointed I got when I found VR 920 head tracking is enabled only for some games.

I understand it's intended to control the players vision instead the charecter position, but I'm sure it would be great to have the possibility to control the mouse with it

It would allow me to navegate on the web and would enable it in almost every game avaliable, like happens withing the P5 virtual glove.

I could lay in my bed, use my wireless mouse's buttons and just turn my head, instead of sitting in a hard chair in front of my pc

Who agree with me ?

About the forum...

Xerion — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:59:44 GMT

I really don't want to be whiny, but the forums are rather slow most of the time, often pages won't load at all, it will just keep loading forever. This is particularly annoying while trying to post a message, but even trying to read a topic takes a few minutes and a few times reloading.

BioShock Drivers: A great idea for the VR920.

3d — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:22:47 GMT

To Vuzix,

I hope youwill make VR920 drivers for the new game BioShock, which is going to be released soon.

The gameis getting great reviewsand I think the VR920 and BioShock would be a great team together.

Add "Aces High II" to the game list

pondo22 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:08:59 GMT

I'm from the UK and bought the glasses hoping Vuzix will see the light and add "Aces High II" to the games list. If you don't already know "Aces High" is an online WWII Combat Sim along the same lines as IL-2 but with a much bigger online community. I've been playing the game for about 4 years and play a very active role on the forums. I have everything working other than the stereoscopic aspect, I run an 8600 GTS and there are no drivers available at the moment, however even with the limited usage on the product I am blown away. I will be logging a report on the new eyewear for all to see in the "Aces High" community forum......can you please give me an indication to pass onto the masses as to when you will be adding "Aces High II" to the list?

As most of the customer base for "Aces High II" is in the USA and people have been waiting for an affordable VR product like this.........I can see lots of sales from our community if you added us.

Regards