"eyephone" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From eye + phone. Compare earphone.",
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          "text": "One system in the works in this country would have us wearing \"eyephones,\" a helmet-like apparatus with a small TV screen […] With the eyephones, each eye will receive only one field, but filters will adjust the picture.",
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          "ref": "1993, Diane M. Gayeski, Multimedia for Learning: Development, Application, Evaluation, page 82:",
          "text": "Further along on the \"naturalness of use\" continuum are today's working VR projects where users are tethered by devices such as eyephones and datagloves.",
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          "ref": "1997, Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore, Richard Winski, Spoken Language Characterisation, page 185:",
          "text": "State-of-the-art eyephones (head mounted visual displays) are not considered to be suitable for providing a realistic or natural visual environment.",
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          "ref": "1998, Richard Gough, Ric Allsopp, Claire MacDonald, On Tourism, page 12:",
          "text": "The key element in this group of technologies is 'automatic head position tracking', which allows the wearer of an eyephone to scan a computer-generated landscape in a quasi-natural way.",
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          "ref": "1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties:",
          "text": "He locked the door, put the CLOSED sign up, and went into the back room where he found the boy still seated, cross-legged, as he'd left him, his face hidden by the massive old eyephones cabled to the open notebook in his lap.",
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          "ref": "2008, Thomas Quealy, Is That You?, page 87:",
          "text": "“That apparatus you see on his head is an eyephone. Inside it are tiny video screens that are transmitting to its wearer images of an opponent on the other end […]",
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        "A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown."
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        "(sometimes science fiction) A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown."
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