Video games addicts who want to sit ever closer to the TV could find a
development from the Japanese games giant Sega just to their taste: it will
let games players wear a pair of goggles instead of goggling at a TV set.
The gadget, filed under European patent application 539 907, is worn like
spectacles and comprises a light-tight box containing a liquid crystal
display screen, a lens and a prism. The prism forms two identical images of
the screen, which are enlarged by the lens to give the wearer the
impression of a large TV screen hanging in space.
Sega’s patent sketches also show a helmet for three-dimensional viewing, and
reveal Sega’s vision of the future in which players wear a games unit
strapped to a body belt – ideal for those who want to walk around within a
virtual-reality game.
