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the
hardware
- Headset
Development
- At
Maelstrom we prefer to stay independent of
specific hardware, and throughout the development of our headset housings we
have used various optics from Sony's Glasstron to today's low cost options
the Olympus FMD range and the Cy-Visor. We can specify most available
options but costs are always an important issue, and in today's consumer
gaming market the low cost headsets are perfectly placed to suit this
requirement.
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- Most of
the low cost consumer units available are too frail to be used
continuously in the public domain, this is why we have developed the
housings shown below. They are designed to protect the consumer units by
giving them a more robust casing that incorporates the optics, earphones
and tracking hardware transmitters
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(InterTrax-II, Ascension Space pad and Polhemus FastTrax transmitters).
The images below show the developmental stages
of the headset housings produced for clients over the last three years. The
new 2004
- design
(large
picture below)
is still being finalised, but once its is, it will incorporate not only
multiple options for optics but will have an all new cabling system
designed to further protect the headset system and its cabling.
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