Full-service provider for high-end simulation solutions

Ever since ZEISS was founded 175 years ago, curiosity, passion and precision have been inspiring us and our customers. Together, we have succeeded time after time in opening up new perspectives, transforming difficult challenges into major opportunities, and making the impossible possible.

We have many years of experience in simulation applications. Over these years, it became clear again and again that:

Realistic simulations of night scenes and a detailed, realistic display over the entire brightness range were not possible. No projector was able to deliver the completely black background that is essential for realistic reproduction of dark image content. And what's more, in multi-channel systems, the double brightness in overlapping projector fields also destroys the immersion in the simulation. Our incentive was to solve this problem.

Competitors have resigned themselves to this problem – the displayable brightness range is limited from the start. The cross-fading of the individual images in a multi-channel system is prevented by interference-prone mechanical blending masks, which have to be integrated in front of the lens output.

We at ZEISS, on the other hand, were certain: with the technical knowledge we have accumulated over decades and the precision of our manufacturing, we can build visual systems that are more realistic than ever before.

In projection, the color black means the complete absence of light. So we had to find a way to filter out the interfering residual light to project a completely black pixel.

The solution was now within reach: two DMD chips from Texas Instruments are combined with optical components from ZEISS in such a way that perfect imaging is achieved from the first chip to the second.