Sensics Supplies NASA with HMD-Based Panoramic, High Resolution Telepresence System
Robonaut project benefits from live video streams transmitted from a camera array over low-bandwidth network and presented inside 150-degree stereoscopic head-mounted display from Sensics.
Baltimore, MD– Feb 20th, 2008 – Sensics, the panoramic head-mounted display company, reported today that it successfully completed the delivery of a Phase II SBIR project for NASA, which included a unique panoramic, high-resolution telepresence system based on the piSight HMD line.
Deployed last year at the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center for the Robonaut, a humanoid robot developed by NASA and DARPA, the Sensics system includes a panoramic, high-resolution camera array and the piSight™ panoramic, high-resolution head-mounted display. The combined camera plus piSight system will serve as the "eyes" of the Robonaut. NASA's Robonaut system can work side by side with humans, or alone in high-risk situations. Telepresence uses virtual reality display technology to visually immerse the operator into the robot’s workspace, facilitating operation and interaction with the Robonaut.
From of the broad piSight product line, NASA selected the 150-43b model which is 150 degrees wide, 60 degrees tall, has strong stereoscopic overlap and displays 6 million full-color pixels per eye. The system is integrated with a precision six degree-of-freedom motion tracker. Video acquired through the camera array is compressed, sent over a low-bandwidth communications network and then displayed in full stereo inside the HMD.
"Since its commercial launch last year, the piSight line of panoramic HMDs has been selected by many demanding customers for a variety of simulation, training, design and research applications" said Dr. Larry Brown, president and founder of Sensics. “We are very pleased to add NASA to our growing list of satisfied customers”
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