The Merritt Group provides expert consulting on stereoscopic displays and applications.
Chief Technology Officer John O. Merritt has over 30 years of experience in the design
and evaluation of stereoscopic 3D video displays for:
- Telepresence systems
- Telerobotics and remote manipulation
- Scientific visualization
- Medical imaging
- Endoscopic surgery
- Image interpretation
- Military off-road mobility
- Night vision devices
Please contact us to discuss other application areas of interest.
Chief Technology Officer
John Merritt is an internationally recognized expert 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.
John's 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.
John 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.
He 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.
John has been an active member of the Society of Photo-optical
Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) since 1985. He was recently elected a Fellow of the Society for his specific contributions to the field of stereoscopic displays and applications, and a Senior Member of the Society for his contributions to the SPIE organization. He has co-chaired the annual SPIE/IS&T
Conference on Stereoscopic Displays and Applications since founding it in 1990.
| John Merritt and Andrew Woods of Curtin University of Technology
co-teach a popular short course on stereoscopic displays and applications
at each annual SPIE 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. For the
full course description, see: www.stereoscopic.org/sc/index.html At right, John 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. For information about the January 2010 21st Annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference, visit: www.stereoscopic.org John is also a member of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES), the Society for Information Display (SID), the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). |
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Photo courtesy Andrew Woods, Curtin University of Technology |
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