Collaborative Multiperspective Environment True Three Dimensional Display

Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new collaborative multi-perspective environment true 3D display visualization technology that will enable battlefield commanders and planners to view and analyze all activity on the battlegroundsimultaneously and rapidly. The proposed true 3D display will be automultiscopic: a series of perspective images of a 3D scene or object are optically projected in a high-speed sequence by high-speed high-resolution video projectors and a spinningholographic optical element screen. This display will present multiple perspective views around it, forming integrated virtual volumetric 3D images, overcoming the shortcomings of conventional stereoscopic 3D displays. In Phase I, POC designed alaboratory prototype and demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed method by integrating a high-speed projector with a holographic optical element fabricated for the demonstration. In Phase II POC will further develop the proposed true 3D displaytechnology and construct a fully functional prototype system, which will project distortion free, high resolution, bright, full color, virtual volumetric 3D images at a standard video rate for real-time interaction with the images by users, each from hisor her own perspective. 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 videogames.