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 (HMD) is still at the almost-works 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 observing their impact on solving the original application. We are working on three application areas: molecular modeling, 3D medical imaging, and modeling of architectural interiors. We have developed complete systems that include the head-mounted display device, the display generation hardware, and a head and hand tracker. We have access to a force-feedback ARM that is owned by the GRIP project.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA261294
Entities
People
- Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- Henry Fuchs
Organizations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill