| Osamu Ebina | Net-PDA Business Unit, Business Strategies Div., Mobile Information & Communication Appliance Div., |
| Norio Owada | Net-PDA Business Unit, Business Strategies Div., Mobile Information & Communication Appliance Div., |
| Yoshinobu Ohinata | Net-PDA Business Unit, Business Strategies Div., Mobile Information & Communication Appliance Div., |
| Kimihiko Adachi | OEM Partnership Dept., Digital Media Systems Sales Div., |
| Masahito Fukushima | Net-PDA Design Dept., Design Office, Mobile Information & Communication Appliance Div., |
Based on the idea that new value can be offered to users if the high-resolution, large-screen information display capability of desk-top personal computers could be achieved in a size suitable for portable devices, Hitachi, Ltd. has recently developed a portable information appliance which employs a head-mount display that has recently been made practical. That appliance has been given the name "Wearable Internet Appliance" (WIA). For both industrial and consumer uses, a variety of applications that had been difficult to implement are now made possible by the WIA. The key words are "anytime, anywhere" and "viewing while doing something else." For industrial uses, improvement in work efficiency and accuracy can be expected by the real-time, high quality displaying of manuals, maintenance and service information, etc. For consumer uses, the portability of high-quality visual information will allow access to the Internet "anytime, anywhere" and "viewing while doing something else," without requiring a conventional large personal computer.
WIA, Wearable, HMD, Head-mount, Hands-free
