“Hyperrealistic VR: a 90-PPD, 1400 nits and high contrast headset” by Geng, Wang, Nishizawa, Negreiro, Lin, et al. …
Conference:
Experience Type(s):
Title:
- Hyperrealistic VR: a 90-PPD, 1400 nits and high contrast headset
Organizer(s)/Presenter(s):
- Ying Geng
- Xuan Wang
- Wataru Nishizawa
- Nathan Negreiro
- Yu-Jen Lin
- Charlene Atlas
- Antoine Liu-Dujardin
- Federico Schliemann
- Andrew Gunderson
- Ryan Crisp
- Dan Hu
- Douglas Lanman
- Michael Abrash
Interest Areas(s):
- New Technologies
- Research / Education
Description:
We developed a virtual reality head-mounted display (HMD) that provides an angular resolution of 90 pixels per degree (PPD), around 1000 nits brightness, and high contrast. Leveraging inside-out tracking from the Meta Quest, the HMD utilizes an optical design that achieves diffraction limited performance at 90 PPD. By utilizing Unreal Engine 5 and NVidia’s DLSS 3 AI supersampling method, hyper-realistic fidelity demos can be created at desired frame rates. We present this installation to exhibit the visual benefits of an ultra high resolution, high brightness and high contrast display, particularly for hyper realistic VR content. To our knowledge, this work is the first VR HMD that combines the visual benefits of above retinal resolution (90 PPD) with ~1000 nits of high brightness. When showcasing hyperrealistic rendered scenes, it provides a new milestone on how realistic VR experience can be.
References:
[1] Douglas Lanman. 2023. How to Pass the Visual Turing Test in AR/VR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ_-n7Syz0s
[2] Nathan Matsuda, Alex Chapiro, Yang Zhao, Clinton Smith, Romain Bachy, and Douglas Lanman. 2022. Realistic Luminance in VR. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 Conference Papers. Article 21, 8 pages.
[3] Yang Zhao, Dave Lindberg, Bruce Cleary, Olivier Mercier, Ryan Mcclelland, Eric Penner, Yu-Jen Lin, Julia Majors, and Douglas Lanman. 2023. Retinal-Resolution Varifocal VR. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies. Article 15, 342–351 pages.
