Immersive Display PRO User Guide

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Immersive Display PRO v6
v 6. 2
User Guide

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1 Introduction .......................................................................................... 4
2 System requirements ............................................................................. 6
3 Install and uninstall ............................................................................... 7
3.1 Install ........................................................................................................................ 7
3.2 Uninstall................................................................................................................... 7
4 Quick Setup Guide................................................................................. 8
5 Control dialog ..................................................................................... 13
5.1 Info tab .................................................................................................................. 13
5.2 Displays tab .......................................................................................................... 14
5.3 Settings tab .......................................................................................................... 17
5.3.1 Touch panels ................................................................................................ 22
5.4 Profiles tab ............................................................................................................ 23
5.5 Simulators tab...................................................................................................... 25
5.6 License tab ............................................................................................................ 27
5.7 Button bar ............................................................................................................. 27
5.8 Config sets ............................................................................................................ 28
6 Configuration locking.......................................................................... 29
7 Geometrical corrections and soft-edge blending window ..................... 30
7.1 Keyboard and mouse control.......................................................................... 33
7.2 Advanced configuration dialog ...................................................................... 34
8 Warping and soft-edge blending info .................................................. 49
8.1 Image geometrical correction (warping) ..................................................... 49
8.2 Soft-edge blending ............................................................................................ 50
9 External camera assisted calibration .................................................... 53
10 Nvidia Quadro native warp and blend support ..................................... 54
11 CMDNET interface ............................................................................... 57
11.1 HELP .................................................................................................................... 58
11.2 GETDESKTOPWARPING .................................................................................. 58
11.3 SETDESKTOPWARPING ................................................................................... 58
11.4 GETWINDOWWARPING ................................................................................... 58
11.5 SETWINDOWWARPING .................................................................................... 59
11.6 LOADPROCALIB................................................................................................ 59
11.7 SETCONFIGSET ................................................................................................. 59
11.8 SHOW .................................................................................................................. 59
11.9 HIDE .................................................................................................................... 60
11.10 QUIT .................................................................................................................... 60
12 OSC interface ...................................................................................... 61

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13 License options ................................................................................... 63

13.1 PC Locked and USB Dongle Licenses ........................................................ 63
13.2 Commercial and Home-User Licenses ..................................................... 63
13.3 License validity ................................................................................................ 64
13.4 Register the software with PC Locked License ...................................... 64
14 License agreement .............................................................................. 66

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1 Introduction
Immersive Display PRO are the ultimate geometric correction and soft-edge
blending software packages for DirectX, OpenGL, Vulkan, Windows 7, 8, 8.1,
10 and 11 Desktop. It is based on the proven Fly Elise-ng image geometric
correction and soft-edge blending technology for multi-projector projection
on regular and irregular projection screens (cylindrical screens, full and partial
domes and any other shaped projection surface).

Immersive Display PRO utilizes Fly Elise-ng Immersive Display core

components for image geometric correction and soft-edge blending
configuration and presentation. With a simple user interface and using the
system mouse and keyboard the projected output image can be mapped on
any kind of projection screen. Overlaps and soft edge blending between
projected images can be adjusted using the fine-grained controls and gamma
functions. A color correction per projector can be applied to match the color
profiles among different projectors.
Immersive Display PRO supports camera calibration files. A camera can be
used to automatically calculate the geometrical correction and soft-edge
blending. Using a standard HD webcam, users can create perfect and seamless
multi projector setups.

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Immersive Display PRO supports up to 16 projectors per PC, which can be

configured in different horizontal and vertical stacking.

Note:
• Immersive Display PRO supports seamless integration of desktop
warping and full-
full-screen games warping.
• Immersive Display Desktop supports only desktop warping.

Typical application of the software is flight simulators, car racing simulators,

projector based home cinemas and other first-person software packets in
combination with multiple projectors and some sort of omni-directional
projection screen.

Immersive Display PRO is designed for home and professional environments.

Applications include:

• Home Entertainment System

• Flight, Ship and Car simulators
• Business Data Visualization
• Interactive & Touch Displays
• Conference rooms
• Video Playback
• Live Digital Motion Graphics

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2 System requirements

The following is the required minimal configuration:

• PC with 2.0 Ghz or higher processor (64 bit)

• Windows 7/8/10/11 (64bit)
• 2 Gb or more RAM
• A moderate graphics card (NVIDIA or AMD/ATI)
• For creating a wide multi projector display in Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11
desktops, the following products are required:
o NVIDIA surround 2D support for NVIDIA graphical cards
o ATI Eyefinity support for ATI graphical card
o Or Matrox DialHead2GO or TrippleHead2GO external hardware box
o Or Nvidia Quadro graphics card with mosaic mode
• A common HD webcam (Ex: Logitech Webcam PRO 9000, Logitech HD Pro
Webcam C920, etc.)

• Administrator privileges are required to install Immersive Display PRO.

• Administrator privileges are NOT required to run Immersive Display PRO.

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3 Install and uninstall

3.1 Install

Note: Immersive Display PRO makes intensive use of DirectX runtime. It is

required that the latest version of “DirectX End-User Runtime” is installed on
the computer before Immersive Display PRO can be used.
At the moment of writing of this document, the latest DirectX End-User
Runtime can be downloaded from this location:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=35&40ddd5bd-f9e7-49a6-
3526-f86656931a02=True

Immersive Display PRO comes in a single installer package. DirectX End-User

Runtime web installer is included in the installer package.

Before the installation begins the installer check the following preconditions:

• If Immersive Display PRO is still running

• If Immersive Display PRO is already installed

In both cases, the installer will stop and prompt the user to take the
appropriate action before staring the setup again: If Immersive Display PRO is
still running installer will prompt to quit Immersive Display PRO first. If
Immersive Display PRO is already installed the installer will prompt to uninstall
it first.
After the install a system restart is needed to complete the post installation
steps.

3.2 Uninstall
Immersive Display PRO can be un-installed using the uninstall short cut in the
Immersive Display PRO menu or using the “Add/Remove Programs” from
control panel.
After uninstall a system restart is needed to complete the post uninstall steps.

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4 Quick Setup Guide

After installing, Immersive Display PRO can be started from the start menu. A
simple and intuitive control and configuration dialog can be used to configure
the needed geometrical correction and soft-edge blending.

1 - Go to the displays tab and select the desired projector configuration per
detected display.

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2 - Press the configure button to edit the geometrical correction and soft-
edge blending. A configuration screen will be opened where the user can user
the control points to map the projected output on the projection screen, define

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the overlap and configure the soft edge blending depending on the
configuration mode.
In the geometrical correction mode, user can use the mouse of keyboard to
move the green control points on the screen until the projected image is
mapped on the projection screen.

3 - After the image is mapped to the screen the overlapped regions can be
defined and the soft-edge blending can be configured. Using the “F10”
keyboard key, user can switch between geometrical correction and soft-edge
blending mode.
The default soft-edge blending mode is the “simple” mode where the edge-
blending region follows the contour of the edge of the screen. In most cased
this mode is enough to configure the soft-edge blending.
In the “simple” edge blending mode user can drag the red control points for
every edge to adjust the soft-edge blending region. Using the mouse scroll
button the gamma values for all tree components(R/G/B) can be adjusted per
region).

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4 - For more complex setup with irregular projection screens user can switch
to advanced blending mode using the advanced configuration dialog.
dialog In the
“advanced” blending mode user can define more control points per edge and
move the blue control points independently to match the contour of the
projection screen and the overlap region. Using the “F12” user can switch
between the blending regions. Using the mouse scroll button the gamma
values for all tree components(R/G/B) can be adjusted per region).

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5 - Finally, by pressing the “D” key, the advanced configuration dialog can be
show or hidden. From the advanced configuration dialog user can fine-tune
the gamma values independently for all tree components(R/G/B).

6 - After the configuration is finished, user can press the “Esc” key to exit the
configuration screen. The configuration can be saved using the “Save/Save
As” button on the control and configuration dialog. This configuration will be
used the next time when Immersive Display PRO is started again.

7 – When running on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10

System, user can check the “Warp desktop” check box in the control panel.
This will enable warping of the complete desktop, including all applications
running in windowed and full-screen mode.

8 - Pressing the “Hide” button, Immersive Display PRO will be minimized on

the system tray.

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5 Control dialog

The control dialog has four tabs and a button bar.

5.1 Info tab

The info tab contains the log window. Every time an application is started or
the warping changes an info line will be added to the Log window.

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5.2 Displays tab

The displays tab shows the detected displays on the system. Every time
Immersive Display PRO is started, it detects all displays present on the system.
Every display is presented with a button containing information about the
display system name (known to Windows OS), the resolution and the number
of projectors connected to this display. Initially there are no projectors
configured to the displays.
By clicking on the display button a popup menu will be presented with all
supported projector configurations.
The following projector configurations (horizontal x vertical) can be selected
from the drop-down menu:

• None (No projectors connected)

• External calibration (Load .procalib files from Immersive Calibration
PRO)
• All possible (horizontal x vertical) projector configuration with up to 16
projectors

In special cases where graphical drivers have no support for display grouping,
user can create a display group in Immersive Display PRO. This can be useful

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when a client application can be maximized over multiple graphical card

displays.
Note that grouped displays in this way cannot be used for desktop warping.
The desktop warping feature requires one large spanned and grouped
desktop. This can be achieved with NVidia 2D surround mode, NVidia mosaic
mode, ATI grouped mode or external Matrox Dual or Triple Head2Go.

Displays changes

When multiple windows displays are used (or multiple graphical cards)
Windows sometimes enumerates and names the displays in an arbitrary order.
Because Immersive Display PRO stores the warping and blending configuration
per display, when Windows enumerates displays differently, the previously
configured display can be renamed differently or can swap position with
another display.
When the option “Check for display change” is selected, Immersive Display
PRO will detect any changes in the displays configuration since the last time
the settings have been saved. If changes are detected, the displays tab will be
cored red. Pressing the Left or Right mouse button on the display will open
the context menu. The first item in the context many will open the previously
saved displays configuration and the users can select (take over) the previously
saved configuration.

Lock to GPU outputs

If a NVidia or ATI GPU is present on the system, the software will use the
corresponding low level driver libraries to identify the exact GPU output
connector that is used for this display. The connector info will be shown on
the lower left part of the display.

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If you want to lock the settings for this display to this output connector, click
on the display and select the option “Pin to GPU connector”

The lower left part of the display will now indicate that the settings are locked
to this connector. After that, the software will apply the settings to any display
connected to the same connector.

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This will improve the software configuration whenever windows display

configuration changes. This includes changes in the enumeration order,
position and resolution of the displays, etc…

5.3 Settings tab

The settings tab allows the user to configure Immersive Display PRO. Under
the “Settings” tab the following options are available:

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• Start this application when Windows starts: If checked immersive Display

PRO will be started automatically when windows is started.
• Auto start desktop warping: If checked immersive Display PRO
automatically starts the desktop warping on startup.
• Start minimized: If checked Immersive Display PRO will be started silently
and will be minimized in the tray.
• Show tray notifications: If checked, windows will show notification in the
tray whenever desktop or window warping state changes.
• Warp cursor: If checked the system cursor will be shown properly in the
geometrically corrected image
• Advanced warp cursor: If checked the software will use a new cursor
warping technology that is more robust and should work seamlessly with
all programs.
• Bi-cubic sampling (Desktop): Uses advanced bi-cubic sampling to improve
the image quality for desktop warping.
• Filter: Select one of the Linear or 4 available anisotropic filtering to be
applied when Bi-cubic sampling (Desktop) is not enabled. Higher
anisotropic filtering improves the image on highly stretched displays.
• Bi-cubic sampling (DirectX/OpenGL): Uses advanced bi-cubic sampling to
improve the image quality for DirectX/OpenGL applications.
• Apply anti-aliasing: Use anti-aliasing techniques to smooth and improve
the image quality for desktop warping.
• Force desktop rotation: If checked, user can select the desktop rotation to
override the driver provided desktop rotation info. To be used when
desktop rotation provided by the driver is not consistent and correct.
• Refresh interval. This value determines how often the configuration screen
will be updated. On lower performance computers this value can be set to
50 or 100 ms to prevent freezing if the configuration screen.
• Enable VNC access with VNC password and VNC port. When enabled, a vnc
server will be started when the software is running. Users can use any VNC
client to connect and configure this PC
• Enable CMDNET interface and CMDNET port. When enabled, a text based
TCP server will be started when the software is running. Users can use the
CMDNET commands to control some actions of the software. For more
information, look at the CMDNET section.

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• Custom images folder: This is a folder where the user can store its custom
images that can be selected inside the geometrical correction configuration
window.
• Image Editor: This button opens the custom image editor. With this editor,
users can create custom background images the can be loaded during the
geometrical correction and edge-blending process. The images can be
created with the same resolution as the resolution of the display. Custom
colors, lines, circles, text and other options are available to create a variety
of custom images that best suit the calibration purpose.

Additional advanced settings are available to enable and configure the FS9/FSX
and Prepar3D edge cropping. FS9/FSX and Prepar3D draw a white edge around
the external views. This edge can interfere with the edge blending settings.
Using these tab users can configure how the software will crop those edges.
OpenGL texture offset can be used with some OpenGL programs that use
textures without first allocating the texture in the OpenGL system. Those
textures can interfere with the textures needed for warping and blending. This
offset will make sure that the Immersive Display PRO textures are allocated in
a range outside of the applications range.
The special option “Force preserve back buffer” is needed when some
applications try to use their back buffer even when the back buffer is discarded
after presenting it to the projectors.
The enable de-banding option can be used to try to reduce the color banding
on some displays when using grayscale of fade images. Some displays will

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show bands of colors for some images. This can be reduced by selecting this
option.

The inputs tab can be used to redefine the standard keyboard shortcuts. The
following table shows the default keyboard shortcuts for the config dialog:

Modifiers Key Action

F3 Edit Warp & Blend (Starts the geometrical
correction and soft-edge blending editing
window for all displays)
Ctrl F3 Edit Warp & Blend with screenshot (First takes a
snapshot of the display and starts the
geometrical correction and soft-edge blending
editing window for all displays with the
snapshot image as the background))
F4 Toggle window warping (Not available in
Immersive Display Desktop)
Ctrl F4 Toggle desktop warping (Available in Window 7
only)
Ctrl Shift 1 Select configuration set 1
Ctrl Shift 2 Select configuration set 2
Ctrl Shift 3 Select configuration set 3
Ctrl Shift 4 Select configuration set 4

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Ctrl Shift 5 Select configuration set 5

Ctrl Shift 6 Select configuration set 6
Ctrl Shift 7 Select configuration set 7
Ctrl Shift 8 Select configuration set 8

The exclude tab can be used to add or remove programs that should be
excluded from warping. Some programs are not designed to be warped and
can be put in this list. The software will never apply the warping to those
programs.

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The Autoruns tab can be used to add or remove programs that should be
started automatically when Immersive Display PRO starts. Using these feature
users can specify one of more programs to be started automatically during
system startup (if Immersive Display PRO is setup to start automatically with
system startup) after Immersive Display PRO is started and initialized.
Programs that are started before Immersive Display PRO is initialized will not
be warped.

5.3.1 Touch panels

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The Ultimate license of the software allows the user to design and use HTML
based touch control panes to control the software from a table, mobile
phone or any HTTP/HTML enabled device.

See the TouchPanelsUserManual.pdf document.

5.4 Profiles tab

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In the Profiles Tab, a profile can be defined per application.

For each application the executable name can be specified to identify the
application.
Per application users can specify which graphics frameworks should be used
to apply the warping and blending. OpenGL, Vulkan and DirectX can be
specified independently.
Frame interpolation can be specified per application including Fly Elise-ng AI
based frame interpolation as well as NVidia DLSS frame interpolation for
older NVidia GPUs.

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5.5 Simulators tab

The simulator tab can be used to setup different flight simulators. For
MSFS2020, MSFS2024, X-Plane, P3D and DCS, the software offers
functionality to load the exported configuration data from Calibration PRO
and configure the simulator for multi-view.
For MSFS2020 and MSFS2024 the exported Zoom settings can be applied to
ensure the simulator keeps the calculated zoom.
In addition, for MSFS2024, the software provides a tool to “extract” the needed
files from the streamed MSFS2024 packages and to create an overlay VFS
package with the modified files.

5.5.1 MSFS2024 VFS Projector and package creation

Microsoft Flight Simulator used a VFS (Virtual File System) to access its
resources (Airplanes, SimObjects, Liveries, etc.). VFS is a layered file system
which is composed of files created by different Microsoft, Asobo or 3rd party
packages.
In MSFS2020 all the MSFS packages have been installed on the local file system
and have been available locally for modification. However, in MSFS2024 all the

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built in packages that compose the VFS are streamed online when the
simulator starts. In additional the content of the package is compressed and
is not available on the local file system for modification.
Because MSFS2020 and MSFS2024 do not offer a proper interface for
configuring multi-perspective view, the exported data from Immersive
Calibration PRO has to be entered in 3 files: 2 files per aircraft (cameras.cfg
and model.cfg) and one system configuration file (UserCfg.opt).
In order to allow modification of the streamed aircraft files, Immersive Display
PRO includes a tool VFS Extractor to extract the relevant airplane files from the
MSFS2024 VFS and create a set of packages with the modified aircraft files.
The packages content can be then overlaid on top of the streamed packages.
This ensures that the modification needed for 100% accurate geometry and
edge-blending is applied even to the streamed content.

Check the dedicated MSFS2020/2024 step by step guide for more detailed
information and instructions.

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5.6 License tab

The license tab shows the current license info. The license can be USB key
based, HardwareID based or Trial license.
PC Locked Licenses, can be entered using the “Enter PC Locked License Code”
button.

5.7 Button bar

The button bar contains the following buttons:

• Desktop warping: (Available only on Windows 7, Window 8 and Windows

10). By toggling this button, the user can enable and disable the seamless
integration of the Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 desktop warping
and the individual programs warping in windowed and full screen mode. It

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is recommended to have this option selected when running on Windows 7

Window 8 or Windows 10.
• Desktop warping mode: The software supports the following desktop
warping modes, depending on the available GPU hardware:
o DWM – Windows Desktop warping. This mode uses the standard
windows desktop composition and works on all graphics cards. On
Windows 7, AERO must be enabled for this warping mode
o NVAPI – NVidia Native Warping API. This mode uses the NVidia
warping and blending API. This is supported by the NVidia Quadro
graphics cards.
o DOPP – ATI/AMD Native Desktop processing API. This is experimental
API and supported by FirePRO graphics cards.

After selection of the desired desktop warping mode, the software needs
to be restarted in order to be able to use the newly selected mode.
Before enabling one of the Native Warping API (NVAPI or DOPP), make sure
that the graphics card and the drivers support it.
The DWM desktop warping as the most widely used and is supported by all
graphics cards.
• Configure: Starts the geometrical correction and soft-edge blending
configuration window if one or more displays are configured with
projectors configuration.

5.8 Config sets

Immersive Display PRO allows the user to configure multiple configurations

that can be loaded at once and can be switched instantaneously. This can be
used to have different warping and blending settings for brighter scenes and
another blending configurations wit darker scene. Also the user can create
one config set with _multi.procalib and another config with _single.procalib
for warping multi-view and single view scenes respectively.
The users can switch between one of the 8 possible configurations sets
using the default keyboard shortcuts (CTRL+SHIFT+1/2/3/4/…/8). If the
game of the screen is warped, the warping will change instantaneously
according to the selected configuration.

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6 Configuration locking

In cases when the system is running in unattended mode or kiosk mode, it

can be desirable to lock the software configuration and prevent any changes
in the configuration.
Use the Lock/Unlock button to lock and unlock the configuration.

Use a password to lock the configuration and prevent any configuration

changes. After that, it is not possible to select projector configuration and to
configure the warping and blending.

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7 Geometrical corrections and soft-

soft-edge blending window

Geometrical corrections and soft-edge blending window provides a warping

mesh of control points. By adjusting the position of the control points, the
projected display can be mapped on any kind of planar or curved surface.
Depending on the projector configuration, a number of independent meshes
are available (one per projector). The control points can be moved by mouse
or by using keyboard shortcuts.
The number of horizontal and vertical control points can be selected from the
advanced setup dialog or using keyboard shortcuts. Up to 50 control points
can be selected.
Three editing modes are available:

• Geometrical correction
• Simple edge blending
• Advanced edge blending

In geometrical correction mode the image can be mapped on any projection

surface by dragging the green control points with the mouse or using
keyboard shortcuts.

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User can switch between geometrical correction and edge-blending mode

using the “F10” key.
In simple edge blending mode, one control point is available per edge. User
can drag the red control points to adjust the blending regions for each edge.
Using the mouse scroll button the gamma value can be adjusted per control
point.

Using the advanced configuration dialog user can enable the advanced
blending mode.
In advanced blending mode one or more control points can be defined per
edge. The blue control points can me moved independently to realize the most
complex edge-blending configurations.
Using the mouse scroll button the gamma value can be adjusted per control
point.

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7.1 Keyboard and mouse control

Keyboard shortcuts

Modifiers Key Action

D Show/Hide advanced configuration dialog
C Center the configuration dialog on the projector
I Show Hide information window
Esc Close configuration dialog and window
F5 Increase the number of horizontal control points
F6 Decrease the number of horizontal control points
F7 Increase the number of vertical control points
F8 Decrease the number of vertical control points
N Select next geometrical correction grid
Left Select left control point
Right Select right control point
Up Select up control point
Down Select down control point
Ctrl Left Move control point left by 1 pixel
Ctrl Right Move control point right by 1 pixel
Ctrl Up Move control point up by 1 pixel
Ctrl Down Move control point down by 1 pixel
Ctrl Shift Left Move control point left by 10 pixels
Ctrl Shift Right Move control point right by 10 pixels
Ctrl Shift Up Move control point up by 10 pixels
Ctrl Shift Down Move control point down by 10 pixels
F10 Toggle between geometrical correction and soft
edge blending editing
F11 Toggle between simple and advanced soft edge
blending grid
F12 Select next soft edge blending grid
Ctrl Shift Q Reset all geometrical correction and soft edge
blending grids
Ctrl Q Reset all geometrical correction and soft edge
blending grids to the whole display area

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Mouse operations

In geometrical correction mode:

• Drag control point with LEFT mouse button normal drag

• Drag control point with RIGHT mouse button fine grained drag
• Key combinations: “H” - drag all points in the same horizontal line
• Key combinations: “V” - drag all points in the same vertical line
• Key combinations: “A” - drag all points in the grid
• CTRL + S + MIDDLE mouse – Select a region to select all control points in
the region
• CTRL + D + MIDDLE mouse – Select a region to de-select all control points
in the region
• RIGHT mouse double-click – Select and De-select a control point

In soft edge blending correction mode:

• Drag control point with LEFT mouse button normal drag

• Drag control point with RIGHT mouse button fine grained drag

• Mouse wheel: Increase/Decrease the Red, Green and Blue gamma value of
the soft edge blending point
• Mouse wheel + Key R - Increase/Decrease the Red gamma value of the soft
edge blending point
• Mouse wheel + Key G - Increase/Decrease the Green gamma value of the
soft edge blending point
• Mouse wheel + Key B - Increase/Decrease the Blue gamma value of the soft
edge blending point

The list of all keyboard and mouse shortcuts keys can be shown in the
calibration screen using the “Help” button. A new window will be shown next
to the calibration configuration dialog.

7.2 Advanced configuration dialog

Pressing the “D” key can toggle the visibility of the advanced configuration
dialog.

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Geometrical correction
correction tab

In the geometrical correction tab, the user can:

• Select the projector to be edited

• Enable/disable the projector output
• Show/hide the control points
• Show/hide the lines between the control points
• Select the number of horizontal and vertical control points
• Double or halve the number of horizontal and vertical control points
• Select the curved or linear geometrical correction
• Select to move single control point, all control points in the horizontal or
vertical line, selected points or all control points on the grid
• Select to lock the movement in X, Y or XY directions
• Select to move only the edges control points and let the program
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• Enable or disable the horizontal, vertical or diagonal animation lines for

perfect geometrical correction
• Add additional checker grid overlay on top of the background image.
Configure the number of horizontal and vertical checker boxes.
• Control for image mirroring, flipping and rotation
• Select the background image from the list of the built-in image of customer
provided images in the images folder
• Load a background image from any location form the hard disk.
• Create a perspective images as background
• Adjust the image mapping on the screen for perfect aspect ratio.

Perspective background
background images

When mapping content from a game engine or another IG which produce

images for the projectors from a different perspective camera, the users can
create the background images with exactly the same virtual camera
parameters and map them accurately on the screen.

The following 3 screen shapes are supported: cylindrical screen, partial dome
screen and full dome screen.

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Soft-
Soft-edge blending tab

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In the soft-edge blending tab user can:

• Select to edit Left, Right, Top or Bottom edge of the projector to edit the
overlap or the fade (blend) area.
• Select between pan or stretch overlap mode
• Adjust the overlap region per edge
• Toggle between simple and advanced soft edge blending mode
• Adjust the fade region per edge (available only in simple edge-blending
mode)
• Adjust the fade ramp per component R/G/B or for all components
simultaneously.
• Use a parametric formula to configure the fade ramp based on 3
parameters (gain, slope, gamma).
• Manually fine-tune the fade ramp using the advanced fade controls.
• Select the masking bitmap that can be applied to the projectors.

Note: When putting the cursor on top of an adjustable field, a small window
will be opened with one or two horizontal sliders. The first slider is for normal
change of the value. The bottom slider is for very fine change of the value.

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This is a very convenient input method that allows the users quick and fine
adjustment of the blending parameters.

The overlap can be configured either as a projector overlap or as an image

overlap. When the check box next to projector overlap is checked, the user
can enter the projector overlap in percentages. This value should match the
actual overlap of the projected images on the projection screen. When overlap
is configured for that edge, the projected image will contain also part of the
image projected from the adjacent projector. Both images must be matched
on the projected screen. When using projector overlap, the overlap of the
adjacent projector is automatically updated and the image overlap is
automatically calculated.
Using the projector overlap is the preferred way of calibrating the overlap and
produces the best results for manual calibration.

Note that, due to the limitations of the graphical system, the overlap region
should be set only to projectors connected to the same display. For projectors
connected to other display, the output of the displays has to be configured in
such a way that both displays show an overlapping image.
Fade is configured as percentage of the total projector image. This is a region
whiting which the color intensity of the individual Red, Green and Blue
components will fade to black for achieving seamless soft edge blending.
The width of the fade region is very important for achieving good soft edge
blending results. Before setting the fade ramp of the fade regions per projector
users can select the red color of the of the fade region of the left part of the
overlapped edge and select green color on the neighboring projector on the
same overlap edge. A combination of green and red color will produce yellow
color on the screen. Using the fade regions control points users should adjust
the fade region per projector so that no red of green areas are visible outside
of the yellow regions.

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Fade regions wider than the actual projector overlap.

Once this alignment is completed, the fade regions color should be turned off
and users can proceed to configure the fade out parameters.
This region can be configured using a parametric formula or manually. In
manual mode this region is divided in 10 segments. The intensity of the color
components and the beginning of the segments can be adjusted with the
vertical sliders. The values inside the segments are interpolated.
In parametric formula mode the three parameters (gain, slope and gamma)
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parameters determine the shape of the fade curve while gamma determines
how fast the color will fade to black. The parametric formula can be adjusted
per Red, Green and Blue color components or for all components together
(Luma).
The following figure shows three gamma functions depending on the gamma
value.

Color balancing tab

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In the color-balancing tab the user can adjust the color profile per projector
in order to achieve color uniformity among projected images.

Masking tab

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In the masking tab the user can select different masking options per projector
or for the whole display.
When a part of the projected image has to be masked for whatever reasons
the users can use the masking controls. Masking can be defined in two ways:
An interactive masking grid per projector or a masking bitmap per display.
In the masking grid mode, user can use the grid control points in the similar
way as with geometrical correction grids. The shape of the grid will determine
which part of the image will be visible and which parts will become invisible
and will be masked.
User can select the number of the horizontal and vertical grid control points
as well as the mode of the grid: curved edges or linear edges.
In the masking bitmap mode, the user can select an existing black & white
.bmp or .png file. The file can be prepared offline using a paint program.
The black parts of the image will determine which part of the projected image
will be masked and will not be displayed.
Only one masking control can be selected at a time. When no masking control
is selected the masking will not be applied.

Align tab

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Using the Align tab user can use the align grid to indicate the position of the
projected image on the screen as well as indicate the overlap regions on the
screen with other projectors. By pressing the “Automap” button, Immersive
Display PRO will calculate the geometrical correction, the overlap region and
the edge blend region to produce the combined mapped image on the screen.
This function is a utility function to map the projected image on the screen as
accurate as possible using the align grid before the user can continue with the
fine-tuning of the geometrical correction and the soft-edge blending.

The users have to position the grid points on the projector so that the points
will be shown on the edges of the screen and the edges of the overlapping
regions with other projector.
If the projector has one overlapping edge the grid contains only point for the
screen edges and the one overlapping edge region. For projectors that have
overlapping edges with more projectors (horizontally or vertically) the grid will
contain points for all the overlapping regions.
The “colors” background image can be selected during mapping of the align
grid for the best identification of the overlap regions.

Left projector align points

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Left projector align points on the screen

A left projector in 3x1 projector configuration the first column of align grid
points should be mapped to the left edge of the screen. The second column
of the align grid should be mapped in the middle of the projected image on
the screen for this projector. The third column should be mapped on the left
edge of the overlap between the left and the center projector. The forth
column should be mapped on the right edge of the overlap between the left
and the center projector.

Center projector align points

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Center projector align points on the screen

Similar to the left projector the center projector has align grid points for the
both overlaps with the left and the right projector. The most left columns of
the align grid should be aligned with the overlap region with the left projector.
The rightest columns of the align grid should be aligned with the overlap
region with the right projector.

The align grid mapping for the right projector is similar to the left projector.
After pressing the “Automap” button the warping approximation will be
calculated and applied.

Only small adjustments of the geometrical correction and the edge blending
are needed to get the perfect multi projector projection.

Bezel correction tab

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Bezel correction is a new feature in Immersive Display PRO. Users can use this
feature to correct the images and compensate for the displays bezels when
using large tiled displays.

Some graphics cards a drivers do not support fine grained bezel correction.
Immersive Display PRO supports fine grained bezel correction. For each
display, users can specify the percentage of the bezels on each edge of the
display.
When bezel correction is enabled, other geometrical corrections are disabled
and not applied.
Desktop warping must be enabled to apply the bezel corrections.

Keyboard and mouse shortcuts help window

Pressing the “Help” button in the advanced configuration dialog will open the
keyboard and mouse shortcuts help window. This help window shows all
available keyboard and mouse shortcuts to manipulate the warping and
blending.

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8 Warping and soft-

soft-edge blending info

8.1 Image geometrical correction (warping)

When a computer generated image is projected on a non-planar surface, the

projected image will look distorted due to the fact that the projectors are
designed to project on planar surfaces. In order to compensate for this
distortion, an "inverse" distortion can be applied on the computer generated
image. When such an image is projected to a non-planar surface, the image
looks corrected.
Depending on the position of the projector and the dimensions of the
projection screen, the image on the projection screen does not follow the
screen lines.

The projected image can be geometrically corrected (warped) before sending

the image on the graphical output. The corrected images look distorted on a
planar surface.

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When this image is projected on a curved projection screen the projected

image will follow the lines of the projection screen and will look undistorted.

8.2 Soft-
Soft-edge blending

If multiple projectors are used, the images from two or more projectors can
overlap. In this case, soft-edge blending techniques can be used to fade the
overlapped images and provide a seamless transition from one image to
another.
Soft edge blending can be done using two methods pan and stretch.
stretch
Using the pan method, the overlap regions are created by panning the original
images. In this case, part of the original image is lost due to the overlapped

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regions, but the aspect ratio of the image stays unchanged. The following
image shows the pan soft-edge blending steps.

Using the stretch method, the overlap regions are created by stretching the
original images. In this case, the size of the original image stays the same

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independent of the overlapped regions, but the aspect ratio of the image is
changed. The following image shows the stretch soft-edge blending steps.

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9 External camera assisted calibration

The manual geometric correction and soft-edge blending can be completely

automated by using a standard off-the-shelves webcam. A HD webcam is
recommended for the best results (Ex: Logitech Webcam PRO 9000, Logitech
HD Pro Webcam C920, etc.)

The external program Immersive Calibration PRO should be used to perform

the automatic calculation of the geometric correction and soft-edge blending.
After Immersive Calibration PRO has finished, the calculation results should
be saved to a file “*.camcalib”.

Immersive Display PRO can import this file by selecting “External calibration”
menu from the projectors calibration drop-down menu of the display.

After the external calibration file is loaded, users cannot perform further
manual geometrical correction. Users can still manually adjust (fine-tune) the
soft-edge blending parameters and the black offset parameters.

Note: “Ultimate” licensing option is required to be able to use Immersive

Calibration PRO files in Immersive Display PRO

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10 Nvidia Quadro native warp and blend support

Immersive Display PRO supports the NVidia Quadro native warp and blend
features. The NVidia native warping & blending features are supported for
NVidia's high-end and ultra-high-end Workstation Graphics Processors:
Quadro 5000, Quadro K5000, Quadro K6000 and Quadro Plex 7000, or all
other NVidia Graphics Processors which support NVidia native warping.

Using the NVidia mosaic technologies users can create the following
projectors configuration with one or more NVidia Quadro K5000 graphical
cards

• 2 projectors: Single NVidia K5000

• 4 projectors: Single NVidia K5000
• 8 projectors: Two NVidia K5000+SLI or Two NVidia K5000+Quadro Sync
• 12 projectors: Tree NVidia K5000+Quadro Sync
• 16 projectors: Four NVidia K5000+Quadro Sync

When using NVidia Quadro Mosaic, the user can adjust the native desktop
resolution to match the aspect ratio of the projection screen. This way, the
software will perform optimal fit of the desktop surface to the projection
surface, without doing unnecessary image stretching. The aspect ratio of the
desktop image will 100% match the aspect ratio of the projection surface.
Using the display context menu select the item “Custom Aspect Ratio”.

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In the “Custom Resolution” Dialog user can select to enter the sizes of the
projection screen and the aspect ratio and the custom resolution will be
automatically calculated.

By selectin the Advanced mode, user can manually enter the desktop
resolution to match the projection screen size.

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In both cases the needed settings will be calculated to make sure when the
desktop warping is enabled in NVidia Quadro Native warping mode, the
desktop resolution will be adjusted to match the projection screen.

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11 CMDNET interface
CMDNET is a TCP based interface with clear - text commands and responses.
This interface allows simple integration of the software with any (show)
control software that supports text based TCP control interface.
The CMDNET server waits for requests and then services them as it receives
them, in the order they are received. It responds to each request indicating
whether the request was carried out, and sometimes to provide requested
information. The CMDNET server will only send a message to the client in
response to a request. Exactly one message is sent by the CMDNET server to
the client in response to each request.

All commands and responses are sent in plain ASCII-encoded text. No data
is sent in binary form.
Each command has the following structure:

<COMMAND_NAME> <PAREMETER>;

The command name comes first, followed by an optional command

parameter (zero or one). The command and the parameter are separated by
a “space” character. A semicolon always ends the command.

Each command is processed by the CMDNET server and response is

produced.
The response has the following structure:

<RESULT_CODE>:<RESULT_INFO>;

The result code comes first, followed by result information. The result code
and the result info are separated by a “:” character. A semicolon always ends
the response.
The result code is one of OK or ERR. OK indicates successful command
execution. ERR indicates failure to execute the command.

The following is a list of the supported commands:

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11.1 HELP

Description Lists all available CMDNET commands

Command HELP;
Response OK:HELP,GETDESKTOPWARPING,SETDESKTOPWARPING,GET
WINDOWWARPING,SETWINDOWWARPING,LOADPROCALIB,SE
TCONFIGSET,QUIT;

11.2 GETDESKTOPWARPING

Description Get the status of the desktop warping

Command GETDESKTOPWARPING;
Response OK:ENABLED;
OK:DISABLED;

11.3 SETDESKTOPWARPING

Description Enables of disables the desktop warping

Command SETDESKTOPWARPING ENABLE;
SETDESKTOPWARPING DISABLE;
Response OK:ENABLED;
ERR:ENABLED;
OK:DISABLED;
ERR:DISABLED;
ERR:INVALID PARAMETER;

11.4 GETWINDOWWARPING

Description Get the status of the window warping

Command GETWINDOWWARPING;
Response OK:ENABLED;
OK:DISABLED;

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11.5 SETWINDOWWARPING

Description Enables of disables the window warping

Command SETWINDOWWARPING ENABLE;
SETWINDOWWARPING DISABLE;
Response OK:ENABLED;
ERR:ENABLED;
OK:DISABLED;
ERR:DISABLED;
ERR:INVALID PARAMETER;

11.6 LOADPROCALIB

Description Loads a .procalib file in the display for the currently

selected config set
Command LOADPROCALIB “\\.DISPLAY1” “C:\config\test.procalib”;
Response OK:LOADED;
ERR:LOAD FAILED;
ERR:INVALID FILE;
ERR:INVALID PARAMETER;

11.7 SETCONFIGSET

Description Selects one of the 8 available config sets. Set number can
be 1 till 8.
Command SETCONFIGSET 2;
Response OK:2;
ERR:INVALID PARAMETER;

11.8 SHOW

Description Shows the GUI of the warping software.

Command SHOW;
Response OK:SHOW;

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11.9 HIDE

Description Hides the GUI of the warping software.

Command HIDE;
Response OK:HIDE;

11.10 QUIT

Description Quits and closes the warping software.

Command QUIT;
Response OK:QUIT;

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12 OSC interface

Open Sound Control (OSC) is a data transport specification (an encoding) for
real-time message communication among applications and/or hardware.
OSC’s address space is entirely user-defined, thereby allowing it to be both
lightweight and endlessly customizable and extensible to the user’s specific
needs. OSC messages are differentiated from one another by a URI-style
symbolic naming scheme allowing for hierarchical organization of the address
space.
https://opensoundcontrol.stanford.edu/

Immersive Display PRO supports remote control of the most important

functions using well defined set of OSC message. The OSC support can be
enabled and configured in the Settings/Remote screen. Note: An Ultimate
license is required to enable the OSC support.

The following is a set off supported OSC messages. The type letter before the
parameters indicates the expected parameter type Supported types are s
(string), i (integer) and f (float).

/control/show Shows the GUI of the warping

software.
/control/hide Hides the GUI of the warping
software.
/control/quit Quits and closes the warping
software.
/control/setdesktopwarping i:value Enables of disables the desktop
warping. Set value to 1 for enable.
Set value 0 for disable.
/control/setwindowwarping i:value Enables of disables the window
warping. Set value to 1 for enable.
Set value 0 for disable.
/control/setconfigset i:configset Selects one of the 8 available
config sets. configset number can
be 1 till 8.
/control/loadprocalib s:display s:file Loads a *.procalib file in the
display for the currently selected

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config set. The display is the name

of the display (e.g.: “\\.DISPLAY1)
and the file is the full path of the
procalib file to be loaded (e.g.:
C:\config\test.procalib)

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13 License options

The software can be licensed with different license modes. For more
information about the available license modes please visit:

https://dev.elise-ng.net/index.php/products

13.1 PC Locked and USB Dongle Licenses

The PC Locked License is "locked" to the PC Hardware components. The

software will generate a "HardwareID
HardwareID",
HardwareID and based on this HardwareID,
HardwareID a
"License Code" will be generated and emailed. The software can run only on
that PC as long as the hardware components do not change. When a hardware
component changes, the software will generate another HardwareID.
HardwareID Based on
the changed HardwareID,
HardwareID it can be determined which component has been
changed. If only one hardware component has been changed, we can generate
a new PC Locked License. If the PC hardware is changed completely or a new
PC is used, PC Locked License can NOT be re-generated.
If the software will be used on a changing PC Hardware configurations, or if
the software will be used on more than one PC, a USB Dongle License needs
to be ordered.
The USB Dongle License is stored and delivered on a secure "USB
USB Dongle".
Dongle The
USB Dongle License is independent of the PC Hardware. The software can be
used on any PC as long as the USB Dongle is inserted. USB dongles are
delivered by post. Shipping costs are included in the price.

13.2 Commercial and Home-

Home-User Licenses

A Commercial License is for customers who are using the software for
commercial applications and receive financial compensation from using the
software. Re-sellers and system integrators who use the software in their
solutions are considered commercial parties. Commercial license can NOT be
ordered as PC Locked License. For commercial use only USB Dongle License
must be ordered. If a PC Locked License is ordered and if the PC Hardware
components change, PC License will not be re-generated.

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A Home-
Home-User License (non-commercial) is for individual home-use only. It can
only be purchased if no financial compensation is received whatsoever from
using the software. A Home-user License can be ordered as both PC Locked
License and USB Dongle License.

13.3 License validity

Both PC Locked and USB Dongle licenses are perpetual.

perpetual A perpetual license will
allow the customer to use the licensed software indefinitely.
indefinitely For the first 2
years,
years the perpetual license also entitles the customer to download all updates
to the software and to receive technical support.
support

After the 2 - year period ends, the customer can choose to remain with the
last version downloaded or to purchase a 2 - year Updates & Support package,
for 40% of the license price. There are no penalties for letting Updates &
Support lapse for a while before purchasing a new 2 – year Updates & Support
package. The new 2 - year Updates & Support period will be extended from
the expiry date of the last 2-year period.

13.4 Register the software with PC Locked License

After you send us the HardwareID, we will generate the PC Locked License
Code.
PC Locked License can be entered using the Software License Window and
pressing the Enter PC Locked License button.

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A new window will open to enter the license code.

Paste the license code that you received from us in the window and press
Apply. The software needs to be restarted to apply the license.

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14 License agreement

Copyright (c) 2009-2025 by Fly Elise-ng.

License for use and distribution of this software:
Immersive Display PRO is "try-before-you-buy" software. This means:
• Fly Elise-ng exclusively owns all copyrights to Immersive Display PRO.
• You may use this software for evaluation purposes without charge for 30
days. The evaluation version displays an 'Unregistered Version' text on the
screen. To remove the text, you need to buy a registration key and register
it with the software. You can purchase the key from our website at
http://fly.elise-ng.net
• Once purchased, the user is granted a non-exclusive license to use
Immersive Display PRO on one computer (i.e. a single CPU), for any legal
purpose, at a time. The licensed Immersive Display PRO software may not
be rented or leased, nor may be transferred to another person.
• You may not redistribute Immersive Display PRO in any manner other than
by linking to the Web page listed below without prior written permission.
• You may not redistribute your registration key in any manner.
• Immersive Display PRO IS DISTRIBUTED "AS IS". NO WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND IS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. YOU USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHOR
WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DATA LOSS, DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY
OTHER KIND OF LOSS WHILE USING OR MISUSING THIS SOFTWARE.
• You may not use, copy, emulate, clone, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile,
disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program,
or any subset of the licensed program, except as provided for in this
agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and
automatic termination of this license and may result in criminal and/or civil
prosecution.
• The Author reserves all rights not expressly granted here.
• Installing and using Immersive Display PRO signifies acceptance of these
terms and conditions of the license.
• If you do not agree with the terms of this license you must remove
Immersive Display PRO files from your storage devices and cease to use the
product.
Thank you for using the original Immersive Display PRO.
Web: https://fly.elise-ng.net
Email: [email protected]

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