

Capacity for generating a seamless wide field of view by
an immersive display system is highly desired for medical, military and other
commercial applications, since the human vision system has a well known field of
view, typically, a horizontal field of view of 200 degrees and a vertical field
of view of 135 degrees.
The C-View™ optical
system delivers a 3D image, up to ± 135° with more than a hemispherical field of
view onto a flat image plane. As
such, objects in the panoramic field of view suffer from the inherent barrel
distortion when displayed on traditional 2D displays/monitors. Instead of displaying these highly
distorted 2D images on a traditional monitor, it is desirable to have an
immersive display to present such panoramic images to viewers.
At present, InterScience is developing C-View™ compatible
display technologies that can deliver the panoramic image collected by the
C-View™ optical system to the viewer without inherent distortion. InterScience is
developing a benchtop immersive display based on projection, and also a
head-mounted 2D display, whereby a small angle of view of the total image is
displayed by tracking the head motion.