A Virtual Retinal Display For Augmenting Ambient Visual Environments

by Michael Tidwell

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to express sincere gratitude to Prof. Thomas A. Furness, III for his guidance and support. I thank him also for providing me an opportunity to grow as a student and engineer in the unique research environment he creates.

I also thank Prof. Kelin Kuhn and Prof. Christopher Viney for technical and non-technical advice, support, and editing.

Special thanks and appreciation to David Melville. Without his ingenuity, this display would not have been possible.

I would also like to express sincere thanks to Richard S. Johnston for sound advice, arduous and diligent editing, and stringent standards.

Great appreciation to Bob Burstein for hard work and many late hours of help.

Many thanks to Joel S. Kollin for reality checks on optics and non-optics related questions.

I would also like to thank Steve White and Heather Patrick for quality engineering and electronics refinement.

Dedication

This work is dedicated to Marvin R. Tidwell and Marion V. Tidwell.

They began my education.
They motivated me to continue it.
They will always contribute to it.