[simpits-tech] Collimated Display

[Matt Bailey]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:16:53 -0800 (PST)
geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Matt Bailey wrote:
> 
> > Gene, I'm curious: how would you consider the older military sim's
> > visual system a collimated system? Is it not just a bunch of
> > projectors rear-projecting onto flat sections of purpose-built
> > material?
> >
> There's a distinct possibility that the visual system shown in the
> video is using an early version of the collimated "panels" that
> current military sims use.  Each one of those polygon sections has a
> projector behind it and a sandwich of optics that makes it collimated.
> 
> g.

Really...I have not seen such a system! Well that would look
considerably better than the direct projection system, spherical
fiberglass dome not withstanding. :)

Matt