SONY HMZ-T1 personal viewer/eyewear
Both the gaming network and film buffs are raving about releasing the Sony HMZ-T1 personal viewer; The unit first rolled out on eleven/eleven/11. Within days it provided out world-large & pre-orders being ordinary for a 2nd wave of devices to hit the marketplace around the beginning of Feb.2012. I controlled to get my palms on a unit recently, so this text is based definitely upon my non-public hands-on enjoyment with the Sony HMZ-T1. So what precisely is this Sony non-public viewer & does it live as much as the hype?
It is a pair of excessive-tech wrap-round glasses you pull down over your eyes. Two very small (0.7-inch) OLED (1280x720p) presentations are located in front of your eyes, creating a ghost of a huge theater display screen without delay. If you were to the vicinity of your face 6″ from a 19″ display, you then get a feel of how the huge display is.
An easy analogy is probably to expect yourself to sit in a huge movie theater all by myself: just you and that terrific big film show screen about five rows in front of you. The experience itself is virtually great. But greater about the real revel in rapidly.
First impressions make a lasting impact…
My initial effect of the unit changed into that it seemed smaller than I’d anticipated. Much smaller in assessment to the marketed photographs I’d seen online. The front has become enclosed in a white plastic that felt instead flimsy. It’s no longer a well-built product as I noticed each slide button, preserving straps & well-known density of plastic as a cheap-looking substitute. I’m no engineer. However, I felt the majority of the outside hardware quantities were possibly immediately out of China. But the true day, I was no longer interested in the tool’s exterior aesthetics as I turned into more intrigued; however, what was going on within this little wondrous tool.
I Hit start
So after fiddling around, adjusting the head strap, earpieces, and the horizontal distance of the OLED screens, I subsequently powered the unit up… Wow… I am provided with a vibrant blue display that emerges as surrounded by darkness aside from a hint of light spilling in from under my cheeks. On the proper thing are menu buttons that let you navigate a setup menu that appears on display. After calibrating the unit for first-rate visible overall performance & HDMI in, it’s miles right; it helps HDMI. I hit start on a Blu-ray player. Kapow! The visuals had been brilliant… I imply I changed into honestly drop-jawed… This aspect is rattling cool!
I experience it nicely worth bringing up; I have owned multiple other personal visors over time, including the Imagine z800 & the latest Sony blows some different eyes wear out the water. The selection is so crisp & smooth; the assessment of color is amazing.
Having praised OLED screen generation, I’d additionally want to factor out that definitely throughout the corner, Sony is investing in QD. (Quantum Dots) Light-emitting debris, which can be 100,000 instances smaller than the width of a human strand of hair, can be discovered onto flexible plastic that may be rolled up or maybe published onto big sheets of paper to create large screens—just a personal visor using on a bendy display that wraps around your peripheral imaginative and prescient. But for now, we’re happy with OLED video display units.
Shiny Blue show. Mmmm
So in that have been we. Oh, sure, the Sony HMZ. I end up inspired, honestly inspired. The Blu-ray movie I watched was modified right into a Pixar three-D animation called Monster House. So I can test out the 3-D depth, oneof the gadget’s many primary skills. By utilizing dual OLED shows, Sony has been able to neutralize a difficulty plaguing 3DTV, commonly known as “crosstalk” The audio is crisp and clean, with true, genuine bass. I adjusted the audio ranges to my liking & changed into pretty stimulated.
What..No Head TRACKING… What were they wondering?
I am slightly dissatisfied that Sony hasn’t taken a further step & blanketed head tracking into the unit. Head monitoring would possibly allow the user to play 1st man or woman fashion games developing greater of an immersive virtual fact revel in wherein, as an instance, in case you appear up, the picture show pans upward.
There is an easy answer. One can, without trouble, connect Natural Factor’s TrackIR device. I have attempted TrackIR with numerous HMDs (head installed gadgets ) & determined the display refresh rate is non-existent with cutting-edge day PC hardware.
Such a device yearns to be let out…
I’m quality speculating right here. However, I enjoy that Sony is simply trying out the waters to see if a large sufficient marketplace may assist such a tool. This is, after all, a prototype for them. I enjoy that this unit has sure functions that present it in its infancy, not a fully-fledged device designed to reside in a mass marketplace. Take, for instance, the separate HDMI interface. This is manifestly a surplus outer hardware case from a few factors like a TV tuner or comparable device. Sony has tethered this to the visor with a 2m lengthy cable. It’s as even though many surplus additives have been scavenged. The HDMI thru box restricts the wearer from ever going cellular with this device. Such a tool yearns to be let loose… Plug n play SWTOR ( Starwars the Antique Republic), for instance, while lazing on the beach or taking a prolonged teach journey.
The Future’s so vivid… I have to put on sun shades…
The Walkman of the 21st Century. Hhhmm… Perhaps the earphones date lower back to the early Eighties-styled Walkman earphones; kidding. I do not suppose we even had Dolby surround sound decrease lower back then. Come to think of it… I don’t forget one nutty Professor from the movie Back to the Future sporting a couple of whacked-out futuristic-looking shades while he, once more, from what date, changed into it… 2012 possibly??
With a rate of $800.00 U.S, the unit manifestly gained be beneath each youngsters Christmas tree; however, if production is stepped up likely within 365 days, costs can also drop to under $four hundred.00. But I could now not get your hopes up.
