“Near-Eye Light Field Displays” by Lanman and Luebke
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2013
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Entry Number: 11
Title:
- Near-Eye Light Field Displays
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Description:
We propose a light-field-based approach to near-eye display that allows for thin, lightweight head-mounted displays capable of depicting accurate accommodation, convergence, and binocular disparity depth cues. Our near-eye light field displays depict sharp images from out-of-focus display elements by synthesizing light fields corresponding to virtual scenes located within the viewer’s natural accommodation range. While sharing similarities with existing integral imaging displays and microlens-based light field cameras, we optimize performance in the context of near-eye viewing. Near-eye light field displays support continuous accommodation of the eye throughout a finite depth of field; as a result, binocular configurations provide a means to address the accommodation-convergence conflict occurring with existing stereoscopic displays. We construct a binocular prototype and a GPU-accelerated stereoscopic light field renderer.
References:
NG, R., LEVOY, M., BR´E DIF, M., DUVAL, G., HOROWITZ, M., AND HANRAHAN, P. 2005. Light field photography with a handheld plenoptic camera. Tech. Rep. CTSR 2005-02, Stanford.
PAMPLONA, V. F., OLIVEIRA, M. M., ALIAGA, D. G., AND RASKAR, R. 2012. Tailored displays to compensate for visual aberrations. ACM Trans. Graph. 31, 4, 81:1–81:12.
Keyword(s):
- light field displays
- head-mounted displays
- microlens arrays
- accommodation-convergence conflict
- virtual reality
