Another comment from that other thread, idzen:
[–]idzen 8 points 4 hours ago Yeah, PR1 owner here.
Palmer built and shipped his first prototype to me by August 2010(it's even written on the damn thing). So I dunno what these guys are necessarily going on about, because his idea for the Rift began before these people claim to have met him. He was always on MTBS prior to PR1 talking about making an HMD. After PR1, I remember him saying he was going to consider building a batch of HMDs and selling them, since all of us back then were so FOV obsessed and his HMD provided a really wide FOV. We never would have dreamed VR was going to take off like this... I think we all just expected a cool new wide FOV custom made HMD that we could tinker with.
I can't technically invalidate this lawsuit or anything, but it does seem interesting how so many people are making claims like this post-facebook acquisition.
Holdup idzen, in the original intro thread, long before pr1, I tell palmer to take the leep vr info, make a kit, sell it on ebay or somewhere, so I think your recollection of history is wrong that the "kit" idea was not introduced until after pr1, let me refresh your memory:
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=4123#p29656
You go Palmer! Build the future! ;) The planar stuff can be done side by side with your nose up to the glass, but that sucks. What I saw at siggraph you have top and bottom monitors with the glass aligned that way, much better and cooler and much more ergonomic! If the iz3d monitor hadn't been so cheap, I may have went that way. Palmer where do you live? You get something together similar to that leep vr and do a full FOV HMD and I think you can make yourself a lot of money with people here willing to buy. I think leep wanted 10K or so, but maybe if you can get it down to 2K or so you may have many buyers.
The futures so bright, I gotta wear shades! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDdI_sfNop8 Image
http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=4123#p29794 (aug 26, 2009, way before pr1)
Post Re: HMD help, and introduction.
Palmer I am hoping the vuzix wrap have a way to make them less trasparent for when you don't want the augmented reality. Perhaps a piece of opaque material that can be inserted? I have the xv6700 from verizon - which is a rebranded HTC Apache - what a great little device - I have gotten so much use out of it. If the new HTC touch pro 2 with video out was not on it's way soon, I would keep it another 2 years. Still see what you can retail a hmd for, I am certain if you get towards the lower few hundreds, you can make millions on ebay from people wanting an HMD solution to plug into thier pda and pda/phone. The newer PDA's don't have CF slots though do they, just sd? I can't wait to hear what games you like with the iz3d, I am hoping they make an iz3d projector, that is my dream. Remember they have new polarized glasses coming VERY SOON for iz3d monitors that should help with the ghosting you experience in very high contrast scenes - a smart guy like you can probably do something I have asked for before. If you will do a search for highly collimated light, I have a thread where if we get could a highly collimated light source into the iz3d monitor - the ghosting should be able to be totally removed, but I have been too busy - but this project is something I would help fund you for. I am certain if you could get a kit together, you could make millions for yourself, let me know if you need me to get the parts for you. I have some 3d iglasses I can get to you if you are interested.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3778&p=27947&hilit=collimated#p27947
So community, let me ask you, Palmer and Cybereality banned me from GDC 14 oculus after party, great guys eh? :( Who am I? Some dick that needs to be ridiculed and banned I guess. Thanks Palmer and Andres, thanks a ton, for NOTHING, but hurting me, my reputation, my business, my family, with your negativity. I tried to help Palmer, in 2009, before the beginning, and look where it got me today, so lesson learned, moving forward, the futures so bright, I gotta wear shades (my old sig file at mtbs3d ;) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDdI_sfNop8