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by tuhtah 111 days ago
This channel (adventuresin9) does great deep dives into Plan 9 and fringe hardware [1]. It’s fascinating to see the Avegant Glyph [2] being presented here. It was one of the few consumer devices to use Micromirror (DLP) projection directly onto the retina instead of standard panels [3].

In the video, he looks at how it exposes itself as a USB device and hooks it up as a joystick and mouse in a non-standard setup. Does anyone here still keep one of these in their "weird hardware" drawer for testing?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@adventuresin9

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-mounted_display

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display