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DIY Virtual Reality Headset Anonymous 2015-09-09 03:33:49 No.1089

Hey lainons, I'd like to make an virtual reality headset and I own a car monitor similar to pic related.
I was going to try to use my phone and VNC, but it wouldn't connect.
I'd like to connect the car monitor from an RCA to VGA cable converter to jack in to my computer.
Then I'd make a headset like the Google Cardboard and place the monitor in there, but will that work?
I've looked up RCA to VGA converters, but they all sound like crap or really expensive.
Any ideas?

Anonymous 2015-09-09 04:49:18 No.1090

Wouldn't that screen hurt your eyes too much?
I would look into some kind of protector between the screen and you, like those almost transparent plastic things some people put in front of CRT monitors to make them safer for long exposure.
Also periscope-like mirrors between your eyes and the screen would be good in a way because your eyes wouldn't be focusing on something that's like 5cm away; but I might be wrong here.

Anonymous 2015-09-09 05:07:58 No.1091

>>1089
You need VGA to composite video. Those adapters should be cheap, but you can also make them yourself if your video card supports interlaced output and very low dot clock frequencies.

Look at http://m.instructables.com/id/Vga-breakout-cable/?ALLSTEPS and https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/RGB_Scart

Anonymous 2015-09-09 21:28:23 No.1094

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>>1090
That's a really good point. I'll look into that.
>>1091
Mm, I don't think my video card supports it, nor do I feel like making a cable if I can buy one cheap. Thanks for the recommendation though!

Anonymous 2015-09-10 00:51:32 No.1095

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Alright, just bought pic related from Amazon and I think I'll design the headset sometime this week, if not tonight, out of cardboard. I have lots of cardboard lying around.

Anonymous 2015-09-10 02:30:38 No.1096

>>1095
You still need your video card to drive the signal with that converter cable.

Anonymous 2015-09-10 03:12:28 No.1097

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>>1096
Oh, I'm such an idiot. So my video card has to be able to support it's VGA port into a TV output for it to even work?
Plus, I watched a video and I guess I need one of pic related for it to even work and what I already bought was a scam.
So, what I guess I didn't understand is that I have to convert the digital to analogue?

Anonymous 2015-09-10 05:34:31 No.1098

>>1097
>So my video card has to be able to support it's VGA port into a TV output for it to even work?
That doesn't make sense.

>Plus, I watched a video and I guess I need one of pic related for it to even work
Not sure what's on the other end of that, but something quite like it.

>I have to convert the digital to analogue?
VGA already is analog. See if a converter box for the outputs on your video card is cheaper than an old PCI video card with composite and/or S-video out or not. No one wants PCI video cards anymore, so I expect adding another card is the cheapest option of all (so as long as you can find one).

Anonymous 2015-09-10 05:56:23 No.1099

>>1098
Yeah, I've figured out what to get now.
I'll need one of those converters from the pic above. I've watched a couple other videos of people making DIY HMDs and that's what people have seemed to be using. I also tried to cancel my order for the first cable I bought, hopefully it get's through.
As for the first question, I wasn't quite following and I thought that I was going to have to make that special cable from the instructable, but the cable would only support certain older video cards. I'm not sure why I thought that. Sorry for the confusion. Thank you very much for the help.