Clint Zeagler | Curator / Designer

Thad Starner | Curator

Kevin Shankwiler | Designer

Yoni Kaplan | Designer

Tavenner M. Hall | Text and Images

Wearable computers and head-mounted displays are in the press daily. Why now? While the basic technology has existed for decades, only recently have these devices become practical and desirable. Using consumer, professional, and “maker” devices, this exhibit demonstrates four challenges along the road to making a consumer wearable computer: power and heat, networking, mobile input, and displays. The groups of head-mounted displays shown here reflect product categories that developed as these challenges were addressed:  

·      virtual reality displays which seek to remove the user from reality

·      portable video viewers for entertainment

·      industrial systems designed to support work tasks

·      early academic and maker systems that provide smartphone-like productivity and communication abilities for everyday use and

·      current consumer devices that leverage modern miniaturized sensors and wireless mobile networks to provide services that are “there when you need it, gone when you don’t.”

The Exhibition will be open to the public from January 5^th through January 23^rd 8AM – 5PM.   

Future Events:  

January 15^th 6PM:    Curator Tour with Clint Zeagler & Thad Starner

January 22^nd 6PM:    Lecture - Designing the Exhibition to Travel 

with Kevin Shankwiler and Yoni Kaplan