Advanced Technology for Portable Personal Visualization.

Abstract

Despite the recent avalanche of publicity on virtual reality, the state of the art in head-mounted displays is still at the 'toy' stage. Although extravagant claims are made almost daily on television and in the popular press, there is very little that can be usefully accomplished today with virtual reality technologies. We at UNC have been working since the early 1970s on aspects of these technologies and have been advancing the state of the art by a 'driving problem' approach; we let the needs of selected applications stimulate the direction of the technological developments and then test new results by their impact on solving the original application. We have been working on three application areas: molecular modeling, 3D medical imaging, and modeling of architectural interiors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA253808

Entities

People

  • Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  • Henry Fuchs

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Graphics
  • Detectors
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Health Services
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Mathematical Models
  • Medical Personnel
  • Parallel Computing
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Virtual Reality

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Research Science/Academic Research