Abstract: Viewer comprises a picture generating device which supplies black/white or color pictures, an optical fibre or fibre bundle for the transport of the optical pictures to a user who wears a display unit on the head. The display unit comprises a spectacles-like frame and optical means, such as lenses, grey filters, or transparent screens for making the pictures visible to the user. The user sees a "wide-screen" picture, but the actual dimensions of the picture are no more than a few centimeters. For the display of cinerama pictures the display unit comprises an angular position detector which supplies a signal in which the orientation of the head of the user is detected. The picture generating device then supplies a picture which is associated with the relevant orientation.