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The Gist: Home Theater, Right Before Your Eyes
$499
While not as stylish as Tom Cruise's shades in Mission Impossible 2, the Olympus Eye-Trek won't self-destruct after one viewing.
The glasses simulate the experience of watching a 52-inch screen from 6½ feet away, and work with any standard video source - from VCRs to camcorders. The high-resolution LCD image comes courtesy of a free-shaped prism, which offers sustainable brightness at levels four times those of a concave mirror, and an optical filter that reduces coarseness. And the 3-ounce Eye-Trek's integrated stereo headphones make it easy to become completely immersed in an epic motion picture or a marathon gaming session.
There's still something off-putting about wearing your video monitor. But I noticed few outside distractions and, even after a solid evening of viewing, only minor eyestrain. If you can put your fears aside, you'll be eyeball to eyeball with the next level of VR in no time.
Eye-Trek: www.olympus-eye-trek.com.
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