LOW COST HEAD/HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAY FOR SIMULATION

WIDE FIELD HIGH RESOLUTION HEAD OR HELMAT MOUNTED DISPLAYS FOR THE VISUALIZATION, OF REAL-TIME OR COMPUTER GENERATED SCENES IN SIMULATION AND OTHER APPLICATIONS HAVE SIGNIFICANT POTENTIALS IN THE MILITARY AS WELL AS THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL ARENAS. PROVIDING A "VIRTUALWORLD" FORM OF DISPLAY NEEDS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SEVERAL KEY TECHNOLOGIES: THE DISPLAY VEHICLE ITSELF, THE OPTICS AND ASSOCIATED MECHANICS TO VIEW THE DISPLAY, AND THE MEANS OF INTEGRATING THE SYSTEM INTOAN AESTHETICALLY PLEASING, FUNCTIONAL, AND ERGONOMICALLY VIABLE LIGHT WEIGHT AND LOW COST HEAD MOUNTED PACKAGE. IN THIS SBIR WE WILL DERIVE INNOVATIVE AND NOVEL MEANS FOR PROVIDING THESE FORMS OF HIGH RESOLUTION DISPLAYS IN A HEAD MOUNTED CONFIGURATION. INITIALLY WE WILL WORK WITH NTSC TO JOINTLY REVIEW AND DEFINE THE BISSIC SYSTEM PARAMETERS INCLUDING RESIOLUTION, FIELD OF VIEW, AND OTHER KEY PARAMETERS. WE WILL THEN IDENTIFY THE VIABLE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CAPABLE OF MEETING THESE REQUIREMENTS, AND THEN WE WILL DESIGN THE VIEWING OPTICS CONFIGURATION AND PACKAGING METHODOLOGY IN ORDER TO VIEW THE DISPLAY. ONCE THESE TASKS ARE COMPLETE, WE WILL PERFORM A PRELIMINARY OPTO-MECHANICAL DESIGN OF THE VIEWING OPTICS AND MECHANICS SO AS TO DEMONSTRATE FULL SYSTEM FEASIBILITY.