“Matching Prescription & Visual Acuity: Towards AR for Humans” by Kim, Stengel, Wu, Boudaoud, Spjut, et al. …

Conference:

• SIGGRAPH 2019

Experience Type(s):

• Emerging Technologies

Title:

Matching Prescription & Visual Acuity: Towards AR for Humans

Program Title:

New Technologies Research & Education Adaptive Technology

Organizer(s)/Presenter(s):

• Jonghyun Kim
• Michael Stengel
• Jui-Yi Wu
• Ben Boudaoud
• Josef Spjut
• Kaan Akşit
• Rachel Albert
• Trey Greer
• Youngmo Jeong
• Ward Lopes
• Zander Majercik
• Peter Shirley
• Morgan McGuire
• David P. Luebke

Description:

Inspired by human visual perception, we demonstrate two novel wearable augmented reality displays. The first, “Prescription AR,” integrates prescription correction in a 5 millimeter-thick image combiner. The second, “Foveated AR,” adapts to user gaze by adjusting the resolution and focal depth.

An increasingly important part of usuable near-eye displays to allow use by users who use vision correction such as that provided by glasses and contact lenses. Recent research indicates that over 20% of world population is myopic, and this percentage is increasing [Holden et al. 2016]. Commercial prototypes have offered an additional prescription lens pair or a glasses-compatible design, but both of these approaches increase the size and weight of the device. Ideally, a user’s prescription should be considered from the optical design stage for the smallest form factor.

References:

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[2] B. Holden, T. Fricke, D. Wilson, M. Jong, K. Naidoo, P. Sankaridurg, T. Wong, T. Naduvilath, and S. Resnikoff. 2016. Global prevalence of myopia and high myopia and temporal trends from 2000 through 2050. Ophthalmology 123, 5 (2016).

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[4] I. Sutherland. 1968. A head-mounted three dimensional display. In Fall joint computer conference, part I. ACM.

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Matching Prescription & Visual Acuity: Towards AR for Humans

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SIGGRAPH 2019: Emerging Technologies

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