ThinVR: VR displays with wide FOV in a compact form factor

Autor: Santiago Alfaro, Ronald Azuma, Joshua J. Ratcliff, Alexey Supikov
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies
DOI: 10.1145/3388534.3407302
Popis: We demonstrate ThinVR as a new approach to simultaneously address the bulk and limited FOV of today’s head-worn VR displays. ThinVR enables a VR display to provide 180 degrees horizontal FOV in a thin, compact form factor. Our approach is to replace traditional large optics with a curved microlens array of custom-designed heterogeneous lenslets and place these in front of a curved display. Custom-designed heterogeneous optics were crucial to make this approach work, since over a wide FOV, many lenslets are viewed off the central axis. We show the viability of the ThinVR approach through two demonstrations, using both dynamic and static displays.
Databáze: OpenAIRE