U.S. Army investigates making night-vision goggles double as virtual reality and augmented reality devices
Army wants digital image processing to improve image quality, intelligent toggling to modulate power, and ability to display only relevant information.
U.S. Army researchers are looking for companies able to write software that would enable digital night-vision goggles to enhance warfighter augmented and virtual reality capabilities on the battlefield.
This architecture should use high-frame-rate digital image feeds; 2-D and 3-D terrain data; and full-color displays to provide a more intuitive and ergonomic augmented reality interface, and a more realistic virtual reality experience.
The Army particularly is interested in an architecture that has digital image processing to improve image quality, as well as an intelligent toggling system to modulate power and dataflow to save power and display only relevant information.
Hardware in the architecture must communicate via a hard-wired connection like USB 2.0, with options for wireless operation via Bluetooth, 802.11g, Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN), or Ultra Wide Band (UWB). The radio shall be either wave relay radio such as an MPU-5 or wideband waveform such as a Harris 152A/163.
Prototypes may not be fully functional if they adequately demonstrate ways to enhance performance of the user and the system.
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