Full-faced prototype Toshiba headgear

A model wears a full-faced prototype Toshiba headgear that enables the wearer to get a 360-degree view across a 40-centimetres dome-shaped screen at Toshiba Corporate Research and Development Centre in Kawasaki, west of Tokyo. The omni-directional image of which a two-dimensional version is displayed on the flat panel screen will be projected to the three-kilogram helmet in accordance with the wearers head position, which is detected by infrared sensors. Toshiba plans to have the gadget ready within the next 2 to 3 years.