STTR Phase I: High Resolution, High Brightness Display for Virtual Reality

STTR 第一阶段：虚拟现实的高分辨率、高亮度显示

• 批准号: 0637800
• 负责人: Michael Bass
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: bdDisplays, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0637800&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Resolution; Brightness; Display

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project focuses on the development of a new type of head set display technology for advanced applications in immersive virtual reality and 3-D imaging. The technology combines efficient up-conversion materials with densely-integrated semiconductor devices. The dense integration of high-speed semiconductors combined with efficient up-converters solves one of the important problems in implementing virtual reality hardware and 3-D imaging to provide very small, high resolution, high brightness micro-display chips that can be incorporated into new head set display designs. The small, high resolution, high brightness chips are a critical step in developing new types of compact, high performance virtual reality headsets, including eyeglass displays. The outcomes of this research project can be applied to head-mounted displays enabling users to experience high definition, high brightness, and rich color, 3-D stereo images. This could be a disruptive technology that impacts education, science, medicine, training, and entertainment world-wide. The use of virtual reality with 3-D imaging would facilitate new learning experiences for K-12 students, new employee and military training, and information gathering in new or unfamiliar environments. For medical applications, high resolution headset displays will enable graphic and realistic experiences based on virtual reality for doctors, nurses, and emergency medical providers. A high performance, low cost 3-D imaging headset display would likely dominate the world's entertainment industry with the ability to bring a real life visual experience to the wearer. The U.S. is the major consumer of displays, and with no manufacturing capabilities in current display technologies, this research could facilitate the recapturing of the high-performance display manufacturing industry, thus enabling new products for the education, medicine, government, and entertainment industries.

这个小型企业技术转让（STTR）第一阶段研究项目的重点是开发一种新型的头戴式显示技术，用于沉浸式虚拟现实和3D成像的高级应用。该技术将高效的上转换材料与密集集成的半导体器件相结合。高速半导体与高效上变频器的密集集成解决了实现虚拟现实硬件和3D成像的重要问题之一，以提供非常小、高分辨率、高亮度的微显示芯片，这些芯片可以集成到新的头戴式显示器设计中。这种小型、高分辨率、高亮度的芯片是开发新型紧凑型、高性能虚拟现实头戴设备（包括LCD显示器）的关键一步。该研究项目的成果可应用于头戴式显示器，使用户能够体验高清晰度，高亮度和丰富的色彩，3D立体图像。这可能是一项颠覆性的技术，影响全球的教育、科学、医学、培训和娱乐。使用虚拟现实与3D成像将促进K-12学生的新学习体验，新员工和军事训练，以及在新的或不熟悉的环境中收集信息。对于医疗应用，高分辨率头戴式显示器将为医生、护士和紧急医疗提供者提供基于虚拟现实的图形和逼真体验。高性能、低成本的3-D成像头戴式显示器将可能主导世界娱乐产业，其具有为佩戴者带来真实的生活视觉体验的能力。美国是显示器的主要消费国，目前的显示器技术没有制造能力，这项研究可以帮助重新夺回高性能显示器制造业，从而为教育，医疗，政府和娱乐行业提供新产品。