Gadgetory

hi I'm Scott Steiner you may have remembered at CNET that we've taken a look at the evident technology which is virtual retinal display on your face now CES is here and the advocate glyph has emerged which takes a headset and combines it with virtual retinal display where is it it's actually inside these headphones right on the top band here if you fold this down there is an eyepiece that goes right over my face and I can adjust the diopters and look at 1280 by 800 resolution video that actually looks a lot better because it's using texas instruments based DLP technology to project right on my retina looking a lot more vibrant and a lot more crisp than a screen this is a Kickstarter project that's going to be sold for $4.99 and this is the latest alpha design of what the glyph looks like there's really nothing else I've seen that matches this type of design because it's not a goggle that goes over your face alone it's actually meant to fold up and be more discrete like giant headphones obviously in this mode you're going to look like a cyborg but when you fold it up it kind of looks like a big set of headphones and it's going to look smaller in later iterations before it's released and there are controls over here to adjust the volume there is a Bluetooth head control technology inside which can work potentially with games and the connection is HDMI so it not only does it work with your iPhone or your Android device to play any video on there like you would with an HDMI connection you can use HDMI 1.4 to connect for 3d content on blu-ray players or whatever you'll see you have that plays 3d content like games this is one of several new interesting technologies that are coming out I haven't seen virtual retinal display because this is the first of its kind and take a look at it at CES it is definitely eye-catching and unfortunately with my really horrible prescription it doesn't quite work for me right yet but it is made to work with a variety of prescriptions and the nose pieces and everything else will be adjusted so there could be hope for you too severely myopic person if you want part of the advocate glyph the Kickstarter campaign starts January 22nd and they can be available to you if you're interested in exploring headset that's really more about entertainment than it is virtual reality but it still could potentially do that stuff in the future I'm Scott's time with a look at the advocate cliff which is currently on my head