High-Resolution, Large-Area, Tiled Displays
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The Office of the
Future, through computers, digital projectors, and
other devices, will be merged with the office of colleagues, whether
in the same city or in another country. Video pictures of
work associates will be projected into the spaces around you as you
meet about and collaborate on projects, creating a strong feeling that
your partners are in the room with you. To accomplish this feeling of
presence, we are designing and building an ultra high-resolution,
wall-filling projection display system composed of many overlapping,
projected tiles with automatic calibration and blending. This design
enables plug-and-play capability of a variable number and arrangement of
tiles, blended into a seamless image.
Currently, we use a wide-field-of-view, single-center-of-projection
camera cluster to capture panoramic images for display in the Office. The
images are displayed in the office, in real time, using multiple projectors
projecting onto the natural walls of the office. This display is monoscopic,
two-dimensional, and perspectively correct for a single position.
Our immediate research goal is to display, using our office set-up, correct, three-dimensional, monoscopic, immersive images for a tracked participant.
To date, we have set up a display with 8 projectors, driven by both Intel-based and Silicon Graphics computers. Eventually we plan to increase the size of the display and the number of projectors used. Intel desktop machines are also being employed by staff and graduate students to develop software used in running the Office of the Future system.