John O. Merritt
Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Merritt has over 25 years of experience in the operational use of stereoscopic 3D displays and the application of research and development in sensory and perceptual science to remote-presence systems. He brings his extensive practical and theoretical knowledge of spatial perception and stereoscopic video applications to every project.
His early work in overhead reconnaissance as an Naval Air Intelligence Officer, combined with his years of experience as a 3D-display design consultant, make him uniquely qualified to assess the strengths and weaknesses of advanced 3D imaging systems.
Mr. Merritt has extensive experience
comparing task performance in 3D vs. 2D evaluation studies. Since completing
his graduate work in sensory and perceptual psychology at Harvard University, he has
provided vision research and human factors engineering consulting services to a broad
range of industrial and government clients. As a senior research scientist at Perceptronics in
Woodland Hills, CA, he headed a number of R&D projects related to vision and visual-simulator
displays.
Mr. Merritt
is the author of numerous technical reports and papers in the areas of vision research, night vision
devices (NVDs), evaluation of 3-D systems for remote manipulation, image-quality
standards, visibility and illumination, photointerpretation, simulator displays,
highway safety, and visual fatigue.
Mr. Merritt is a member the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES), the Society for Information Display (SID), the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He has co-chaired the annual SPIE/IS&T Conference on Stereoscopic Displays and Applications since founding it in 1990. For more information about the SD&A conference, go to: www.stereoscopic.org
Mr. Merritt and Andrew Woods of Curtin University of Technology co-teach a popular short course on stereoscopic displays and applications at each annual conference. The course covers key principles and practices essential for the design of successful stereoscopic display and imaging systems, and includes demonstrations of leading-edge stereoscopic hardware. To view the full course description, go to: www.stereoscopic.org/sc/index.html
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left, Mr. Merritt demonstrates orthostereoscopic imaging and display geometry using
a Proview XL-50 head-mounted display provided by Kaiser Electro Optics of Carlsbad,
California, at the annual SPIE/IS&T Conference
on Stereoscopic Displays and Applications.
Photo courtesy Andrew Woods,
Curtin University of Technology
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For further information, please contact:
John Merritt
THE MERRITT GROUP
82 South Street, PO Box 728
Williamsburg, MA 01096-0728 USA
Phone: 413-268-3888
Mobile: 413-537-3429
Email: john@merritt.com
Last updated:
May 3, 2006
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