Everyone likes to get the complete picture. NASA found the technology appropriate for use in guiding space robots, in the space shuttle and space station programs, as well as research in cryogenic wind tunnels and for remote docking of spacecraft. An innovative imaging process, IPIX provides for real-time control of live video data.
Viewers can look in one direction from a single vantage point or four views simultaneously.
IPIX technology relies on digital image manipulation of a standard video signal. This permits independent panning, tilting, zooming and rotating of four video images. It requires no moving parts, is noiseless, and responds faster than the blink of an eye. Based on NASA Small Business Innovation Research contracts, interactive imaging technology by IPIX combines two images from 180 degree perspectives into a sphere. Dr. Lee Martin of IPIX captures the images digitally.