Product Description

The myvu® personal media viewer solo plus edition is lightweight, mobile and provides a crisp, sharp image. Simply connect the myvu personal media viewer to your Apple iPod® with video and watch your favorite music videos, TV, movies, podcasts or other downloaded entertainment on myvu¿s vivid virtual screen. Compatible with all video iPods namely; All 5th Generation video iPods, Nano with video (3rd Generation), iPod Classic, and iPod Touch.

Product Details

• Color: Black
• Brand: Myvu
• Model: MA-0495
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 10.50" w x 9.00" l, .80 pounds

Features

• Bright full-sized image that's daylight viewable
• Comfortable, lightweight, see-through design with slim profile maintains your natural vision
• Slim design
• Easy access to video controls on pendant
• Comfortable, noise-reducing in-ear earbuds

Customer Reviews

Fantastic!
I recently purchased a set of these. Personal video glasses are a difficult item to purchase because it's very hard to find a store that carries them, let alone lets you try them on before purchase, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect.

First impression out of the box: these glasses are amazingly tiny and lightweight. The branches fold up, and they can very easily fit into a jacket pocket. That's a very important point when it comes to a device meant to travel a lot: you will not think twice about carrying them, unlike a DVD player.

I found the descriptions of what you see in the glasses quite misleading: the panels are actually collimated at about a foot in front of your eyes, so the illusion is quite similar to watching the screen in the seat in front of you on an airplane. It's perfectly acceptable, but falls short of the pompous comparisons to watching a 44" big screen from 9 feet away. The field of view may be identical, but the focusing isn't.

The Myvu glasses do not isolate you, as you can very easily see around the virtual screen. This is probably good to address a common problem with immersive VR goggles, which tend to make the user nauseous and disoriented. On the downside, this makes them more difficult to watch in very bright ambient light conditions. Also, switching between the virtual screen and the "outside world" is difficult because of the short focusing distance of the screen.

Finally, I was surprised to find out watching videos through the goggles did not significantly reduce battery life compared to watching them on the iPod screen directly. You will want to get some sort of high capacity USB battery pack if you want to be able to watch more than a couple of movies on one charge, though.

If you fly a lot (or have a long train commute) and would like to catch up on your video watching, you can't go wrong with the Myvu goggles. They're inexpensive, well designed, take up very little space and work very well.

You should also know that Myvu is coming up with new models: the Shade 301 (an update to this model) and the Crystal 701 (with full VGA resolution panels).

[EDIT]
Almost a year later, and my rating still stands: this is a wonderful product. I have used the Solo glasses on quite a few long plane trips, and they have performed flawlessly. The biggest chore is to keep the iPod topped up with interesting movies and TV shows!

Couldnt be happier!
I just purchased the myvu Solo Plus and this thing is really pretty cool. I got it as a birthday present for my son who's surgically attached to his Nano iPod but I think we're going to battle over it! The myvu glasses let you watch any video that's on your iPod only it's like watching it on a regular tv and, most importantly, it's private. No more having to hold the iPod in your hand and watch movies on that little screen.

With my son's permission, I took the myvu glasses with me on a flight the other day. I just connected the myvu glasses to my iPod (which is an older model iPod but I guess the myvu works with all of them), put them on, and I'm in my own little movie-world. And no more "neighbors" seated next to me craning their necks to see what I'm looking at - although someone was very curious and asked me what the glasses were - call it "myuvu envy"! The battery lasts for about 4 hours so there's plenty of time to watch a full-length movie.

I'm definitely not a gadget girl - little too old for that - but these glasses are so fun and easy to use I guess I'm just going to have to get one of these for myself

Great product, poor instructions
This product works very well. The instructions are poor. You need to go to the myvu website and download the more helpful pdf version. Remember to charge it as soon as you open the package. There is a small rubber usb flap on the pendant control. Lift the flap and a usb connector is underneath. This product is well worth the money!!