Head tracking I.M.U

In any virtual reality system low latency head tracking is extremely important.  

Head mounted display C.A.D

Early head mounted display enclosure designs:

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Head mounted display sketch

Head mounted display sketches:

Head mounted display components

Recently purchased head mounted display electronics. This includes a 5.5" 1080p HD Display with hdmi out , optical lens, headphone drives and microphones.

Display board :

Head mounted display early designs.

After doing some research designing and developing a custom head mounted display begun. In order to accomplish this objective  required extensive knowledge in multiple disciplines ranging from optics , display technology, mechanical engineering and industrial design. Previously the military did extensive research on head mounted displays. To begin I referred to Head set design book written below:

Other reference:

http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/diy/

http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=137&sid=dc19482eeb788e0338cfb6273f345c3e

Virtual reality control input

After extensive research on different control input like data gloves, keyboards , mouses and game controls. I began to experiment with the primesense depth camera as a optional input.

Motherboard enclosure C.A.D

Early motherboard enclosure designs for personal virtual reality computer.

Motherboard enclosure sketches

Early motherboard enclosure designs done on A4 paper:

Motherboard electronics

In order to render a convincing virtual environment we would require a powerful processing motherboard with a modern GPU that could handle modern Opengl4 graphics. The motherboard

would also require additional features like wifi, ram and hard drive memory.

After extensive research I came across this motherboard from the internet:

 Intel Atom D2560 processor(2.00GHz), 

NVIDIA GT520 Graphics ,Realtek 6 

channel high fidelity audio, 4* USB 2.0, 

WIFI.

30GB  mSATA Solid State Drive:

Ram Drive:

Idea and Concept

The Idea and concept is to create a personal virtual reality computer. In order to accomplish this objective the idea requires combining some sort of control interface like keyboard / mouse. Second component would be some sort of head mounted display unit. Lastly a motherboard capable to render high end graphics that can be believable to the human eye.