Orlando, FL (22 Oct 2019) – Orlando-based Serious Simulations has innovated another industry first – wireless video transmission for simulations and games to stream real time video to head mounted displays (HMDs) with zero latency. The U.S. Patent office issued a patent for a technology that Serious Simulations considers its Generation 1 of wireless video for simulations and game.
The technology has been in use by several simulation and commercial location based entertainment companies for three years under the brand name of ReformatterTM. This conclusive action by the U.S. patent office officially recognizes and protects the company’s innovation as unique and protected.
The new process sends zero latency wireless video/audio/data transmissions to head mounted displays with delivery of pixels to the display in only 17 microseconds. This is the fastest video transmission technique to date. It represents the company’s desire to achieve real time video transmission to HMDs in all conditions and for all resolutions.Generation 1 video/audio/data transmission allows manufacturers to utilize commercial LCD and OLED displays of the smart phone industry combined with commercial wireless radio transmitters in the 60 GHz range. The methodology requires one printed circuit board and a tiny file of code to be inserted in the game/simulation code. Before the Serious Simulations invention, transmissions using this pipeline suffered from buffering a full frame of latency. This invention reduced the all-important latency measure from 16.67 milliseconds to less than 17 microseconds – a 1000 fold improvement.
“Serious Simulations began tackling the problem of latency in video transmissions to HMDs, because it is vital to effective training in virtual and augmented reality without sickness and disorientation,” said Chris Chambers, founder of Serious Simulations. “We could not produce our desired VR and AR training products as serious training devices, with high levels of latency. We saw that no solution existed on the market, so we undertook our own approach. Generation 1 is just the beginning. Our Generation 2 product is under way with much higher resolutions and frame rates.”
The current patent is applicable to a wide variety of commercial displays in a variety of resolutions up to and including 1920×1080 and frame rates of 60 FPS.
The company produces HMDs using its patented wirelesss video transmission technology and offers the technology to other company’s HMDs as well.
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Christopher Chambers, Serious Simulations, 407-538-1927, cchambers@serioussimulations.com
About Serious Simulations, LLC: Serious Simulations LLC, an Orlando based Veteran Owned simulation business, designs immersive training systems using custom made hardware and software components for specific skill training needs, combined with motion tracking systems, wireless communications devices, wireless display technologies and commercial game engines. It produces wireless video technology and wireless head/helmet mounted displays (HMDs) with very high resolutions and wide fields of view. The industry-leading wireless HMDs, and wireless VR add-ons, are available separately or as components of Serious Simulations’ professional grade VR training systems for military, police, emergency responders, and professional grade entertainment experiences. The company is a partner in the Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) network. For more information, visit our web site at www.serioussimulations.com . Inquiries: info@serioussimulations.com.