CrystalEyes is a product which offers a way to view stereoscopic computer generated or video images. The hardware includes eyewear and an infrared emitter. The eyewear is an alliance of liquid crystal lenses and electronics. The electronics detect the IR signals broadcast by the emitter to switch the liquid crystal lenses in exact synchronization with the image fields as they are displayed by the monitor. When the left field is displayed the left lens is open and the right lens is closed, and vice versa. In this way each eye sees only its appropriate image.
The Bird is a six-degrees-of-freedom (6D) input device. Using its onboard 16-bit CPU, the Bird computes the position and orientation in space of its tiny receiver, which can be mounted in a cube, a mouse, or any other convenient housing. The Bird's transmitter is located in a cabinet and is remoted for footprint.
The Bird transmits binary data at selectable baud rates via an RS 232 port to a host computer, continuously or on command. Outputs consist of X, Y, and Z positional coordinates and their corresponding rotational matrix or orientation angles.
| Translational range | 24" in any direction |
| Angular range | 180 Azimuth & Roll, 90 Elevation |
| Translational accuracy | 0.1" RMS |
| Translational resolution | 0.03" |
| Angular accuracy | 0.5 RMS |
| Angular resolution | 0.1 RMS @ 8" |
| Update rate | 100 meas./sec |
| Outputs | X, Y, Z positional coordinates and orientation angles or rotation matrix |
| Interface | RS-232C with selectable baud rate |
| Format | binary |
| Modes | point or stream |
The BOSS20 system is composed of ImageBOSS1, ImageBOSS4 and ImageBOSS16. ImageBOSS1 functions as the system control interface and is an VME Bus-based compatible board that allows up to 4 MBytes of on-board DRAM.
ImageBOSS4 is a data I/O interface to the VME Bus. It uses 4 processors and provides 16 MBytes of dualported DRAM which resides on the VME bus and can be accessed by both the processors and VME-Bus peripherals. The 4 processors, each accessing 4 MBytes DRAM, are connected by serial links. A portion of the processor memory is dedicated to program code and local data storage through software partitioning.
ImageBOSS16 is a computing engine using 16 processors and 16 MBytes of on-board DRAM. The 16 processors are interconnected in a two-dimensional grid array with each accessing 1 MByte DRAM.
Driver software interfaces with INMOS Toolset software and compilers is provided.
VME Bus to S-Bus interface INMOS T800 Transputer, 25MHz Multiplexed 32-bit Data/32-bit Address Bus Two-dimensional, cylindrical, and toroidal parallel architectures 20MHz, bi-directional links between processors User configurable Link Speed, Memory Speed, and board address User accessible links A16/D16 Error handling capacity DO8 (0) Interrupt Standard 6U Eurocard VME format, 280 mm beep