Eyephone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Eyephone is a noun meaning (sometimes science fiction) A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.
Meaning
(sometimes science fiction) A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.
Example Sentences
State-of-the-art eyephones (head mounted visual displays) are not considered to be suitable for providing a realistic or natural visual environment.
Further along on the "naturalness of use" continuum are today's working VR projects where users are tethered by devices such as eyephones and datagloves.
“That apparatus you see on his head is an eyephone. Inside it are tiny video screens that are transmitting to its wearer images of an opponent on the other end […]
The key element in this group of technologies is 'automatic head position tracking', which allows the wearer of an eyephone to scan a computer-generated landscape in a quasi-natural way.
Word Forms
- eyephones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vidphone, visiphone, watchphone, televiewer, visionphone, videophone.
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