Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support

• Main Authors: Xia, Xinxing, Guan, Yunqing, State, Andrei, Chakravarthula, Praneeth, Rathinavel, Kishore, Cham, Tat-Jen, Fuchs, Henry
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Augmented Reality; Virtual Reality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138478
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we present our novel design for switchable AR/VR near-eye displays which can help solve the vergence-accommodation-conflict issue. The principal idea is to time-multiplex virtual imagery and real-world imagery and use a tunable lens to adjust focus for the virtual display and the see-...