This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to develop a compact deployable micro immersive display component for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) based simulation, training, exercises or mission rehearsal applications. The proposed display component is an eye protection goggle type wearable high resolution stereo display. With head tracking and registration, it enables wearers to view a 360 º immersive virtual environment and multiple users view can be synchronized so they are immersed in the same virtual environment. It will be compatible and can be integrated with all current visual systems. It provides a new way to solve one of the fundamental and common problems in VR: users are completely cut-off from real world view; and in AR: combining virtual and real images. It supports both video and optical see-through at dynamically variable blending ratio in one system and can switch back and forth seamlessly to combine their advantages. Additionally, it can overcome sun-light readability problem, which is a major challenge for all outdoors display systems in general. We will solve this problem in a way no other systems have used so far ------ automatically adjusting the transparency of display screen to adapt to environmental brightness.
Keywords: Key Words: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Process Simulation, Training Systems, Display Technology, Wearable Display System
