TITLE: Electronic expansion of human perception

Document ID: 19920008415 N (92N17634) File Series: NASA Technical Reports

Report Number: AD-A242028

Sales Agency & Price: CASI Hardcopy A02 CASI Microfiche A01

Authors:

Robinett, Warren (North Carolina Univ.)

Published: Jan 01, 1991

Corporate Source:

North Carolina Univ. (Chapel Hill, NC, United States)

Pages: 7

Contract Number: N00014-86-K-0680

Abstract:

The true potential of this new field comes from the ability of a head mounted display to induce a synthetic experience in its wearer. The ability to artificially create and design experience enables possibilities and powers that were formerly impossible. If experience can be captured and transmitted, then you can 'travel' instantaneously to a distant location and see the trees, feel the wind, hear the birds, and smell the flowers. If electronic instruments can sense things that you cannot perceive, such as the inside of opaque objects, then you can be shown images of these invisible things. There are, however, things which are invisible to all of your senses. Examples of these imperceptible phenomena are X-rays, infrared radiation, radio waves, magnetic fields, radioactivity, ultrasound, electricity, the inside of opaque objects, microscopic objects, and events occurring too fast to see. Even though you cannot directly perceive these things, you can indirectly measure and observe them with various instruments and electronic sensors.

Major Subject Terms:

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS IMAGE PROCESSING RADIATION DETECTORS SENSORY PERCEPTION

Minor Subject Terms:

ELECTRICITY INFRARED RADIATION MAGNETIC FIELDS RADIATION DISTRIBUTION RADIO WAVES RADIOACTIVITY ULTRASONICS X RAYS

Language Note: English

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