Hands-on with eMagin's EyeBud 800 Wearable Display

There are many good things to say about EyeBud 800's video quality: from what we've seen so far, it looks like eMagin's display and video processing are both more than up to snuff, rendering iTunes Music Store videos and user-ripped content with a level of clarity and color fidelity that is unmatched by the other wearable displays we've seen. The reason for this: eMagin's OLED display is simply superior to the LCDs we've seen in similar devices, especially in resolution (800x600), contrast, and saturation. What's most immediately noticeable is that there's nothing washed out about the video, which you can adjust in brightness to your liking: the blacks are close to true black, the whites are bright, and though the human eye can't discern them all, there are 24 million colors inbetween. No matter; they're vivid, and better than on most LCDs. Additionally, moving images looked better than we'd expected given the quality of the original iTMS videos - artifacting and other issues were hardly noticeable on the iTMS content we saw, and despite the high resolution, we didn't see evidence of over-defined pixels. To trot out a trite phrase, this was like watching a TV trapped inside a headset, and though we wouldn't say it was like watching a 60" HDTV in a living room, it was a lot closer than the other iPod options out there. Both of the iLounge editors who tested the 800 walked away impressed.

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