Advanced Technology for Portable Personal Visualization

Abstract

The user of a Head-Mounted Display is immersed in a computer- simulated or remotely-sensed three-dimensional world. Despite an avalanche of publicity for Virtual Reality in the popular press, many difficult technical problems remain unsolved for this technology, and no application of it has yet been demonstrated to be commercially viable. We believe that the hardware and software required to create high bandwidth, multi-sensory virtual worlds will in a decade be as cheap and ubiquitous, and that virtual worlds systems will be used in a variety of applications. We are therefore working on three fronts: improving the crucial hardware components required, developing a software base, and demonstrating the usefulness of this technology to solve selected real-world problems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA245819

Entities

People

  • Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  • Henry Fuchs

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cameras
  • Computer Graphics
  • Display Systems
  • Geometry
  • Guidance
  • Health Services
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Image Processing
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Navigation
  • Optics
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Three Dimensional
  • Virtual Reality

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Software Engineering