Collaborative Multiperspective Environment True Three Dimensional Display

Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new collaborative multi-perspective environment true 3-D display visualization technology that will enable battle field commanders and controllers to view and analyze all activity on the battleground simultaneously and rapidly. The proposed true 3-D display will be automultiscopic: a series of narrow view perspective images of a 3-D scene or object are optically projected in a high-speed sequence, through the use of a high speed high resolutionvideo projectors onto an in-plane spinning holographic optical element on a thin film screen. This display will be in the form of a large tabletop workbench, and will present multiple perspective views around it, forming integrated virtual volumetric 3-Dimages, overcoming the shortcomings of conventional stereoscopic 3-D displays. In Phase I, POC will design a laboratory prototype and demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method by integrating a high speed projector with holographic optical elementfabricated for the demonstration. When fully developed, the proposed collaborative multi-perspective environment true 3-D display will be able to show distortion free, high resolution, very bright, full color, gray scale virtual volumetric 3-D images at astandard video rate encompassing very high volume of information. Commercial applications of the collaborative multi-perspective environment 3-D display will be in training and simulation, air traffic control, CAD/CAM, surveillance photogrammetry,molecular modeling, medical imaging and video games.