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by madengr 4398 days ago
Needs to be steroscopic or else you'd be nailing bonds down in the wrong location. No substitute for a good stereo microscope for microelectronics work.
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Top and side view?
Nah, just something that gives you depth of field, sort of 3D, but not that drastic.
Oculus?
Maybe, but then you've got the lag and pixilation. Seems to be a solution in search of a problem. Still nothing nicer than human eyes looking through good glass of a stereo inspection microscope. Really not even the eyes, but the same posture for hours on end hurting the neck muscles. I suppose you can get used to it, but with a wire bonder there is not much leeway in adjusting the microscope position. Then again, for a guy manually wire bonding LEDs in China, it beats toiling in a rice patty.

Even the USB microscope cameras are garbage. Much better pictures just holding a digital pocket camera up to the eyepiece.