180° Field of View with jDome and background projection

[Feuerfalke]

I just stumbled upon this new product "jDome":

 

It's a half-spheric projection-screen to simulate a wider FOV. With the current setup, primarily aimed at the Ego-Shooter-market, the peripheral vision looks rather fish-eyed, but I think it has a great potential with a reasonable price for us simmers.

 

Check out the jDome in action with Crysis:

 

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=C-IvzpFE7nc

 

 

http://www.jdome.com/

[Boberro]

EEh I would like to stay with LCD flat monitor\TV than have un-natural picture which is long draw out...

[VS461]

jDome

 

Nice!

If it won't be so expensive and have no distortion and no palm-sized pixels... I've seen some PowerPoint presentations projected from the back side of the "wall"... :no_sad: That jDome must be built from some very special material to have enjoyable screen. There must be a personal experience :).

And how can I put my future touch screen kit like Urze's? Or use virtual reality gloves?:D

THX!

[kiss4luna]

I prefer head-mounted visual displayer

[Groove]

We have a tech discussion area here on the forums ;)

[Feuerfalke]

Thanks for moving. Actually thought I had posted it on the techy-forums. :blush:

[Shaman]

TrackIR and large widescreen TV/screen is still a winner to me :) To be honest, pilots wear helmets, and with their visor down, they need to do a lot of headwork too :) I'm good with limited vision caused by widescreen limited area.

[Woodstock]

Has anyone already tested if LockOn can be extended to the required 180° FOV and how it then behaves concerning zoom and TIR?

[eurofor]

That thing wouldn't fit on my desk and I'm quite happy with my monitor. Maybe this could be interesting for those building cockpits?

[G3]

Has anyone already tested if LockOn can be extended to the required 180° FOV and how it then behaves concerning zoom and TIR?

 

a very good ?,

i think my reliable max was 175 with a very big fps hit.

 

that dome needs some bending software or lense to pre distort the image to match the dome, this looks like a compromise with stretched peripheral vision.

but the point made is fair enough, you only need to see movement in an fps shooter, and the th2go isnt much better at such a big fov, definte potential there.

[Vekkinho]

Nice idea but image is pretty distorted and IMO not very good for Simulators of any type where aspect and perspective mean a lot!

[SuperKungFu]

I saw this over at E for All, (or something similar) here's a pic

[CoNa]

While we're at it......

 

Rather have one of these....but the price is probably not the same.

Those cockpit setups are looking sweeeet.

 

http://www.immersivedisplayinc.com/index-3.html

 

http://www.immersivedisplay.co.uk/html/products.html

 

[rocketeer]

They look immersive up close, I was there at the E for All too. But none of these are going to be within our budget for the home, even if we have the space.

[Deadman]

That the company that has taken over for Elumens that went out of business. The picture posted above by SKF is an Elumins dome