Abstract

There has been a tremendous advance in image source development for the past decade. Comparing with a traditional CRT (cathode ray tube), the image sources such as organic liquid crystal display (OLED) and addressable matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) are multi-color, low cost, high resolution, very high efficiency and low power consumption. Therefore, they are ideal candidates as a helmet-mounted display (HMD) image source. Unfortunately, the traditional narrow band HMD using CRT as the image source is no longer suitable for the latest image sources. To take the advantages associated with the multi-color and high resolution image source, the HMD has to be capable of wide field of view and wide spectral band.

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