eyephone
eyephone noun: a device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.
Noun
eyephone (plural eyephones)
- A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.
- One system in the works in this country would have us wearing "eyephones," a helmet-like apparatus with a small TV screen […] With the eyephones, each eye will receive only one field, but filters will adjust the picture.1979, Science digest: Volume 86, Issue 2
- 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.1993, Diane M. Gayeski, Multimedia for Learning: Development, Application, Evaluation, page 82
Examples of eyephone in a sentence
- State-of-the-art eyephones (head mounted visual displays) are not considered to be suitable for providing a realistic or natural visual environment.1997, Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore, Richard Winski, Spoken Language Characterisation, page 185:
- 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.1998, Richard Gough, Ric Allsopp, Claire MacDonald, On Tourism, page 12:
- “That apparatus you see on his head is an eyephone.2008, Thomas Quealy, Is That You?, page 87:
Forms of eyephone
| plural | eyephones |
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Origin of eyephone
From eye + phone. Compare earphone.
Questions about eyephone
- What does eyephone mean?
- Eyephone means a device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.
- How do you use eyephone in a sentence?
- State-of-the-art eyephones (head mounted visual displays) are not considered to be suitable for providing a realistic or natural visual environment.
- What part of speech is eyephone?
- Eyephone is a noun.
- What is the plural of eyephone?
- The plural of eyephone is eyephones.
Words near eyephone in the dictionary
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