I'm already active the Philip K. Dick life. I've got the communicator, the book computer, the everywhere Internet. All I charge now is a baleful government cabal and an immersive 3D ambiance that lets me jack in and airing around.
Oh, that's actuality now too! At atomic the immersive 3D ambiance part. Array of.
Sony's new HMZ-T1 Claimed 3D Eyewitness is a aflame bit of headgear that lets you accept your 3D and abrasion it too, you gigantic nerd.
Why It Matters
This is a big footfall on the aisle appear accepting absolutely absorbed in a basic 3D world. Moreover, it's a working, wearable television. You apparently haven't approved a wearable television. You apparently haven't apparent one on your friend's coffee table, or comatose on the alembic of the guy sitting next to you in bench 7B. There's a acceptable acumen for that: they all suck. They've looked awful, fit poorly, acquainted bad, and performed about as able-bodied as Justin Bieber in the bedroom bathroom.
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Surprising that none accept taken off.
But this one has a adventitious to. It lobs the brawl absolutely into good-enough territory.
Using It
The 3D and HDTV looked great. It has two screens, anniversary with an OLED 720p display. Anniversary sits centered in foreground of your eyes. Speakers awning your ears, and affiance basic beleaguer sound.
Before you even blaze up this rig, you're traveling to charge to absorb some time applicable it. You can accomplish it fit comfortably, but it takes effort. Sony fabricated it super-adjustable. You can move the speakers advanced and aback on your head, and up and down to fit over your ears. The behind adjusts in the temples just aloft anniversary ear, and in the aback of the arch via two adaptable straps with watch-style ballast belts in the middle. The top band is sturdier plastic, while the lower one is added flexible. A hinged pad rests on the forehead.
I spent several minutes, about ten, accepting the bend adapted to clothing my face. The key is to get the basal band able-bodied beneath the a lot of arched aiguille in the aback of your skull. That keeps it largely calmly in place.
There's an HDMI canyon through box that sits average the eyewitness and your video source. You bung the antecedent (like a PS3 or Blu-ray player) into the aback end and a cable snakes out of the foreground to your eyes. The controls on the HMZ-T1 let you acclimatize the aggregate and gives you some bound card options (3D or not 3D) and it does abutment HDMI CEC, but for approach surfing, fast forwarding, bold controlling, etc., you're traveling to accept to use your approved arrangement of remotes.
Although the awning is alone inches in foreground of your eyes, it feels a bit like sitting in a theater. You can move your eyes about absolutely a bit and break aural the borders of the screen. It does not, however, absolutely yield over your acreage of appearance so that you feel absorbed in the screen. You wouldn't wish that, for a lot of movies and games. It ability be nice for a attributes video. But with it beggared on you'll still actual abundant see the awning edges, and in your borderline eyes you can audibly see aloft and beneath you. Light comes in.
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First, it's actual fun technology. It's just accurate to accept the TV yield over for you. This has some austere approaching shock traveling for it as well.
The video achievement is exceptional. That's abundantly due to the 3D. Crosstalk or ghosting is one of the bigger problems with 3D. Sony claims that the two displays accomplish the claimed eyewitness crosstalk free, because the angel is alone alloyed in your arch and never on a individual awning It works. I saw none, and looked hard. Meanwhile, the affectation was ablaze and vivid. Colors popped.
You will not be absolutely absorbed in a world. You will not feel amidst by gunmen if you're arena a 3D game, because the affectation doesn't absolutely yield over your acreage of vision. Don't apprehend that, it will not happen. (Which is preferable, accustomed that 3D agreeable is advised for 16x9 screens. If the affectation was abounding and abutting abundant to yield over your vision, you'd absence things at the edges.) At 45 degrees, the examination bend is added than ample.
But it does asperse you to a abundant greater admeasurement than sitting in foreground of a TV, even a actual abounding one.
That's aswell due to the sound. The speakers articulate absolutely good, and were loud abundant to absolutely asphyxiate out alien babble in my apartment. The acute of buttons in the dryer, the complete of a radio arena at low aggregate disappeared. The 5.1 basic beleaguer complete was... okay. I absolutely heard directional noises.
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But the beleaguer complete pass-throughs could accept been better.
And let's allocution wearability. While it's far, far added adequate than any added bend we've tried, it isn't absolutely like cutting your admired hat. If you don't absorb a lot of time adjusting it, it will blow ailing on your face, falling down on the arch of your nose.
Even if you do acclimatize it, it's still heavy. (Sony specs it at 600 grams, or 1.3 pounds.) You can't abrasion it for abiding amouts of time—literally a admonishing ancestor up afterwards 3 hours and it automatically shuts down at 6. Your close gets tired. I kept absent to blow my button on my hand, or to sit aback absolutely in my chair, with my arch draped over the back. At bisected an hour my close acquainted strained. At just over an hour, I absolutely noticed the pad on my head. By the time I took it off, 90 account later, I had a abounding red atom on my forehead.
It's aswell not actual portable, or accessible off the couch. The canyon through box is the absolute problem. You accept to bung it in, which rules it out of application on a lot of flights, or for, say, demography it aback and alternating with you to the office. (Perhaps a absolute afterwards all, as it finer prevents you from searching like a doofus in public.)
And finally, something array of subtle. Because you abundantly can't see or apprehend annihilation traveling on alfresco of the viewer, I generally acquainted a little claustrophobic in the headset. And if you wish to get up and do something, like grab a beer from the kitchen, you accept to yield off the eyewitness and stop playback or absence what's traveling on. You can't just leave the bold on and accept in.
Should I Buy This
Yes, as continued as you accept addition TV. This is a toy. An $800 toy. I anticipate actual few humans would be blessed with it as their primary television. It's too closed-off from the alfresco world, and tethered to the video antecedent by a cable. You accept to be so affiliated to it. And if you do cull an all-day TV sesh, you unrepentant couch potato, it will be a accurate affliction in the neck. Perhaps forehead too.
But it's one hell of a toy. The complete is good, the video is abundant and the 3D is far bigger than what you're acclimated to at the theater, and even the best 3DTVs. It's acceptably comfortable, and you are traveling to adulation arena amateur on it (even if the 3D on the bold is weak, or non-existent.) It's fun, and interesting, and I dug it. [Sony]
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