Stereopsis in Cockpit Display — A Part-Task Test

Abstract

The benefit of adding retinal disparity to color raster display was tested with two formats. Six pilots flew a tracking task and periodically responded to “failures” in the two represented systems, providing a total of 4320 trials. Response time and error frequency were both reduced when disparity augmented monocular cues to “real world” depth. Response time and error frequency were not affected when disparity was used to make an element of an otherwise flat display more noticeable.