Immersive optical projection system

Abstract

An improved virtual reality system comprising an immersive sound system, sensors, a power source, communications, data processing, and an optical system that delivers photoreceptor density resolution, wide angle, high contrast, binocular vision, continuous depth of field, and stabilized images that are closely synchronized with the vestibulo-ocular reflex, providing a comfortable, fully immersive experience. In one embodiment, a miniaturized array of projectors is arranged to cover the retina with adjoining image segments. Each projector provides full spectrum, amplitude modulated, and controllably divergent beams of light that are subsequently reflected off a compound curved reflector, through additional optics, and along reversible light paths to form images on the retina. In another embodiment, an adaptive optics reflector is comprised of an array of fixed, or independently controllable optical elements, that can alter reflected beam properties such that a virtual object may appear to be nearer to, or further from the viewer.