Oliver Rist, Guest Contributor of RealTechNews, writes:

This thing just screams “new horizon in FPSs.” And you may justifiably ask why? After all, we’re just moving the monitor closer to your eyes, correcto? Correcto, but there’s more. eMagin also added what it’s calling 3D Stereovision. The rest of us call it head-tracking.

So you’re mowing down those really creepy crawling demons in Half-Life. Normally, you’d twitch your mouse to look left and right - make sure you got them all. With Stereovision, if you hear that annoying clicking sound they make off to your left, all you’ve got to do is turn your head left and you’re facing the one that almost got away.

Truly cool. Downsides? A few. First, it costs just under $900. Then again, the good vid cards are going for $600 nowadays and true performance zealots are running two of them in tandem, so what’s $900? The real downside is that…

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