Project Number
- 234
Title
- Ensphered Vision
Description
- Immersive display utilizing a single projector and mirrors to produce a seamless wrap-around image.
Contact
- Hiroo Iwata
Affiliation
- University of Tsukuba
Address
- Institute of Engineering Mechanics
- Tsukuba 305-8573 Japan
- iwata@kz.tsukuba.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "In this image display system, a large screen is used as an alternative to [head mounted displays]. The sphere is an ideal shape for a screen that encompasses the human visual field because it maintains a constant distance between the eyes and the screen as the viewer's head rotates."
- "Ensphered Vision uses a single projector and a convex mirror to display seamless images. The optical system employs two mirrors; a plain mirror, which bends the light so that the viewer can see the image from the center of the spherical screen, and a spherical convex mirror, which diverges the light from the projector in the spherical screen. This optical configuration proves a seamless wide-angle image in a very limited space. The screen's field of view is 270 degrees horizontally and 100 degrees vertically."
Sight
- graphics workstation, projection display, mirrors
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
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