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Comment by IanDrake | Hacker News Reader

Looks really cool. Hope you guys nail it.

I'm hoping to see more and more e-ink offerings. For myself, I would like a 50" curved e-ink monitor for work, black and white is fine. I know e-ink has terrible refresh rates, but I'm working with code and consoles 90% of the time. I could put web browsers and other stuff on another monitor.

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I don't want another monitor, I want a terminal strapped to my face so I can sit wherever I want.

Seriously, a small VR system that's just an SSH client would be a pretty massive improvement on my life.

video glasses connected to a smartphone could get you pretty close, sadly display resolution isn't great.

Maybe one could adapt cheap FPV glasses to take a smartphone instead, they don't "waste" pixels on stereo as VR setups do.

I find the idea of using the most advanced VR technology for your olde command line terribly funny. All those 80s cyberpunks imagining people actually traveling through cyber-information highways, using them in combination with feedback gloves to browse and actuate on the information in a myriad ways... And we just want a command line. I'd love to go back in time to tell them that this is a major use of VR and see the abject horror in their faces.

+1000

An 16'' uncurved 20kg e-ink monitor with 100ms latency to work outside and I give you my car.

I want this too... It's almost 2017 how do we not have this yet???

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