Accommodation and convergence play critical roles in the natural viewing of three-dimensional （3D） scenes, and these must be accurately matched to avoid visual fatigue. However, conventional stereoscopic head- mount...Accommodation and convergence play critical roles in the natural viewing of three-dimensional （3D） scenes, and these must be accurately matched to avoid visual fatigue. However, conventional stereoscopic head- mounted displays lack the ability to adjust accommodation cues. This is because they only have a single, fixed image plane, but the 3D virtual objects generated by a pair of stereoscopic images are displayed at different depths, either in front or behind the focal plane. Therefore, in order to view objects clearly, the eyes are forced to converge on those objects while maintaining accommodation fixed on the image plane. By employing freeform optical surfaces, we design a lightweight and wearable spatial-multiplexed dual focal-plane head-mounted display. This display can adjust the accommodation cue in accordance with the convergence cue as well as generate the retinal blur cue. The system has great potential applications in both scientific research and commercial market.展开更多
Helmet Mounted Displays(HMDs),such as in Virtual Reality(VR),Augmented Reality(AR),Mixed reality(MR),and Smart Glasses have the potential to revolutionize the way we live our private and professional lives,as in commu...Helmet Mounted Displays(HMDs),such as in Virtual Reality(VR),Augmented Reality(AR),Mixed reality(MR),and Smart Glasses have the potential to revolutionize the way we live our private and professional lives,as in communicating,working,teaching and learning,shopping and getting entertained.Such HMD devices have to satisfy draconian requirements in weight,size,form factor,power,compute,wireless communication and of course display,imaging and sensing performances.We review in this paper the various optical technologies and architectures that have been developed in the past 10 years to provide adequate solutions for the drastic requirements of consumer HMDs,a market that has yet to become mature in the next years,unlike the existing enterprise and defense markets that have already adopted VR and AR headsets as practical tools to improve greatly effectiveness and productivity.We focus specifically our attention on the optical combiner element,a crucial element in Optical See-Through(OST)HMDs that combines the see-through scene with a world locked digital image.As for the technological platform,we chose optical waveguide combiners,although there is also a considerable effort today dedicated to free-space combiners.Flat and thin optics as in micro-optics,holographics,diffractives,metasurfaces and other nanostructured optical elements are key building blocks to achieve the target form factor.展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2011CB706701)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61178038and61205024)
文摘Accommodation and convergence play critical roles in the natural viewing of three-dimensional （3D） scenes, and these must be accurately matched to avoid visual fatigue. However, conventional stereoscopic head- mounted displays lack the ability to adjust accommodation cues. This is because they only have a single, fixed image plane, but the 3D virtual objects generated by a pair of stereoscopic images are displayed at different depths, either in front or behind the focal plane. Therefore, in order to view objects clearly, the eyes are forced to converge on those objects while maintaining accommodation fixed on the image plane. By employing freeform optical surfaces, we design a lightweight and wearable spatial-multiplexed dual focal-plane head-mounted display. This display can adjust the accommodation cue in accordance with the convergence cue as well as generate the retinal blur cue. The system has great potential applications in both scientific research and commercial market.
文摘Helmet Mounted Displays(HMDs),such as in Virtual Reality(VR),Augmented Reality(AR),Mixed reality(MR),and Smart Glasses have the potential to revolutionize the way we live our private and professional lives,as in communicating,working,teaching and learning,shopping and getting entertained.Such HMD devices have to satisfy draconian requirements in weight,size,form factor,power,compute,wireless communication and of course display,imaging and sensing performances.We review in this paper the various optical technologies and architectures that have been developed in the past 10 years to provide adequate solutions for the drastic requirements of consumer HMDs,a market that has yet to become mature in the next years,unlike the existing enterprise and defense markets that have already adopted VR and AR headsets as practical tools to improve greatly effectiveness and productivity.We focus specifically our attention on the optical combiner element,a crucial element in Optical See-Through(OST)HMDs that combines the see-through scene with a world locked digital image.As for the technological platform,we chose optical waveguide combiners,although there is also a considerable effort today dedicated to free-space combiners.Flat and thin optics as in micro-optics,holographics,diffractives,metasurfaces and other nanostructured optical elements are key building blocks to achieve the target form factor.
