The Wireless Augmented Reality Prototype Concept

The Wireless Augmented Reality Prototype (WARP) is a system for personal access to a local area network with video, audio, and sensor data services. The center of the WARP system is a lightweight, unobtrusive heads-up display with a wireless wearable control unit, called the Remote Access Unit (RAU). Data services to the RAU are provided through a high-rate radio link from the WARP RAU to a stationary base-station interface unit which sits on an ordinary local area network. The RAU-to-interface unit radio link has been engineered to operate within the high-interference, high-multipath environment of a space shuttle or space station module.