Headset to Give You 360 Degree Vision

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A  Scientists form French claim to have developed a headset that gives You a 360 degree vision

The headset captures images from every direction Around the user 360 degree vision, then transforms them into something like the The human vision system does

The system called FlyVIZ was designed by Jerome Ardouin and colleagues at the Grande Ecole d'Ingenieurs Paris-Laval in France.

The headset is at its initial stage: at 1.6 kilograms, it's a bit heavy to walk around with, and Always connected to a laptop for image-processing while it runs.  Which is almost impossible while walking.
It uses a video camera, mounted on the  top of the helmet, along with specially shaped mirrors to capture the environment on all sides of the user, then displays it in real time on a modified 3D Viewer headset 360 degree vision
The system takes about 15 minutes to get used to, its creators claim in a paper they presented at the Virtual Reality Software and Technology conference in Toronto, Canada

Once acclimatized, the user is able to move around and interact fluidly with their environment.

In a series of trials, users grabbed sticks that would have been outside their normal field of view, dodged balls thrown from behind them, and even drove a car, Despite the strange new perspective on the world, the device does not cause any nausea.  Motion sickness or visual fatigue, the team claimed, Even though FlyVIZ acquires and displays images in 2D, users still had the serviceable depth perception.  Which the researchers attribute to wearers intuitively tracking object motion and parallax in the image to compensate for a lack of normal binocular vision.

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All in all, it sounds like a pretty nifty piece of technology. You can see it in action with the video posted above, just don’t expect to understand anything unless you can speak French. We’ll be keeping an eye out for more details on the FlyVIZ,

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