Impressive, its rare for a company to have people in there engineering department that actually are willing to advance there products through hackery. Too bad Mac’s engineers are held behind a thick layer of glass that prevents them from communicating from any and all outside contact. Sure they can see, but you try explaining schematic details as a deaf/mute.

Posted at 2:39 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by blizzarddemon

Really jongscx proposed the hack and did some initial work, but RetroPlayer was the individual who really dove in and put it all together. Just wanted to put that out there and give RetroPlayer his due along side jongscx.

Posted at 2:40 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by DrNathan

That’s the fundamental difference between engineers and sales/advertising people.

Posted at 3:13 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by BigD145

…Actually… all I did was propose the idea and post all the websites I got off the internet… Where the hell it says I actually cracked the thing is beyond me.

As much as I’d love to take credit for this, I wouldn’t deserve it. If it was done, all the credit belongs to the other guy. I was just the lucky schmuck to start the thread.

[yes, this IS Actually Jong-scx and not some random griefer...]

Posted at 5:22 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by joseph lopez

this hack is cool but for $24.95 you can buy a universal input cable direct from myvu’s websitem, the hack works out more expesive and time consuming im a avid hacker but even i dont see the point of this one

Posted at 6:19 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by bates

#1 – too bad you confuse a company with a product…

Posted at 7:53 pm on Aug 19th, 2008 by gm

Spoiler Alert:
You can buy the converter cable here
http://www.myvu.com/Accessories.html#Universal%20Connection%20Kit

But don’t let that stop you from hacking the thing!

Posted at 4:12 am on Aug 20th, 2008 by Knightowl

ok, guys, seriously- can we have, like, a bat signal that says “go buy one of these HMDs before an article on how to hack them is posted and the whole world and his dog buy one and push the price up”?

Posted at 5:27 am on Aug 20th, 2008 by PKM

This is really not surprising; these are the same guys who made the displays for the MIT Media Lab’s wearables group BITD.

Posted at 10:42 am on Aug 20th, 2008 by rj

Hey, glad to see this thing’s finally getting some real hack work done to it. Glad someone else has more patience than I do when it comes to dealing with micro-electronics! %$@# those little 40gauge wires!

Posted at 11:30 am on Aug 20th, 2008 by Skitchin

You should see the crystal, they have a VGA res.
And they have a RCA vid/audio cable… you can use them with a DVD or anything…

One hell of a product.. the thing is they are see trough ..

Posted at 2:53 pm on Aug 20th, 2008 by Yaniv

For those that keep saying the universal kit is all you need, obviously you don’t own one of these.

You cannot use the universal cable kit with these. For the last time!!

Do 10 seconds of research before you post your “I’m so cool” comments.

Why would anyone hack this when they can just buy a cable? Do you think you are smarter than everyone else because you can 600613?

Anyway… to the rest of the people that own these and have been able to get them on the surplus markets for half the cost of the viewers that CAN use the universal cable, this hack saves them more than $90.

The model being hacked is an obsolete product from MyVu. It is either the Solo (not Solo Plus) or the “fully loaded edition for 5th Gen Ipod only.” It cost me $50 surplus for the glasses and about $15 in parts. That’s 65 bucks total. The viewers that this “universal cable kit” works with is $150 and the cable is another $25 (though why not just buy the universal one to begin with if you want to pay that?)

So, again… READ before you post something.

Sorry for the rant, but these kinds of people just drive me nuts.

Posted at 3:32 pm on Aug 20th, 2008 by Retroplayer

3-d hack anyone? parts required = 1 LM1881, a hex inverter, possibly a PIC and it will accept field sequential 3-D. Plus it virtually doubles the resolution to boot.

what would be neat is a chip or ASIC which converted 640*480 into chopped 320*240 so it split half the horizontal resolution across both eyes but when combined shows a wide screen image.

Posted at 4:07 pm on Nov 7th, 2008 by andre

http://4hv.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?56831

:)

-A

Posted at 11:59 am on Nov 8th, 2008 by andre