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From the comments:
sparroww – “OK, let’s start with the obvious.
With these glasses and the right motion based software you can have the equivalent of an enormous monitor. You move your head to the right and it shows you your “right monitor”, same to the left, up down, etc.
People who work in situations where they need to look at the real world, but can benefit from a display can use this. Imagine a warehouse where all the employees know where to go, what to take off the shelf, where to put it, etc based on what their display tells them. Your dentist, doctor, etc, can look things up in real time while chatting with you without taking their eyes off you. For that matter then can do an easy side to side between your skin and the one they have on the display to see if this rash you have is serious.
Drivers will need to be careful using these, but it sure beats taking your eyes off the road to look at your GPS.Construction people can superimpose the plans over the building while their working on it. There’s so much more.”
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