Gimmick head-mounted display system with slight amount of sex appeal AHOY!

Product Name 
Video Eyewear

Product Image(s) 
[1]

Product Code
N/A

Vendor
VisualWear

Release Date
December 1st, 2004

Price
"Less than 70,00 yen"

Overview
Video Eyewear is actually an American product, by a company called "Icuiti [2]." But since VisualWear, in charge of Asian sales of the Video Eyewear, has already announced the product, we're covering it here at TechJapan first.
So what exactly is Video Eyewear? Technically speaking, the system consists of two 1cm² displays, creating the effect of a 42" display about 2 meters away from your face. The screens can display a resolution of 640 x 480, and feature two common input ports: NTSC video and analog RGB. Morever, the twin screens allow for display of 3D content using a simple parallax technique.

Reasoning
I'm not going to lie - o­ne of the o­nly reasons I chose the Video Eyewear as this week's Product of the Week is because it was o­ne of the o­nly Products of the Week.
But that doesn't mean it's a shitty product, by any means. I've seen plenty of HMD systems come and go, namely those from Sony (the Glasstron) and Elza (something that was included with video cards). The Video Eyewear stuck a bizarre chord with me, though. Perhaps it's the Japanese chick? Perhaps it's the fact that it accepts both conventional video signals and analog RGB video signals? Perhaps it's the 3D display technology, which I've yet to see accomplished well enough for any actual adoption?
I'd like to hear your thoughts o­n the Video Eyewear as well.

Official Product Site 
http://www.visualwear.co.jp/index3f.htm [3]

Related TechJapan Coverage
VisualWare's 3D glasses [4] (November 25th, 2004)