Interview with Dr. Albert "Skip" Rizzo, renowned VR researcher at the US...Audio is a mess but Skip is a very interesting thinker... Interviewer "I have an eMagen"

There is a discussion of eMagin's entry into the hmd space lo these many years ago. Dr. Skip mentions the eMagin Z800 and the decision by the designers not to have a device that is enclosed ala the new generation of dive mask hmds. He imputes that a fear of liability was the reason as not much good can happen when you are isolated from your environment without be able to see obstacles that could cause a fall. Look at the Youtube videos of Oculus users falling and becoming hysterical because of their loss of a sense of being able to control their positional sense integrity in the suddenly new and radically different "virtual" environment. That is going happen and happen frequently when any Dive Mask has a wide release. The isolation also results in post-use postural instability and the need for an adjustment period to reacclimate back to "real" Reality. Ever ascended from a prolong stay in a deep cave?, returning to the the surface is pretty bizarre with sensory overload, particularly visual sensory overload, very disorienting.
Since the new feature eMagin mentioned in the PR that announced the new Immersive Head Mounted display was the "flip-up" capability I want to see if that feature is there to circumvent any claim that the iHMD was so isolating it did not allow the user quick access to their surroundings.
But Skip traces the progress of VR through the eMagin Z800 with head tracking to the Nintendo Wi with natural bodily interactions in a virtual world to Oculus to Kinect and seems to land on Mobile VR as next important threshold to cross.  I'm hoping the next threshold to cross is an immersive HMD with high resolution a wide Field of View that doesn't make the user sick.  Ok, eMagin, lets hear it sometime  soon.