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

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-...

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Main Authors: Xia, Xinxing, Guan, Yunqing, State, Andrei, Chakravarthula, Praneeth, Rathinavel, Kishore, Cham, Tat-Jen, Fuchs, Henry
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1384782020-09-26T21:54:04Z Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support Xia, Xinxing Guan, Yunqing State, Andrei Chakravarthula, Praneeth Rathinavel, Kishore Cham, Tat-Jen Fuchs, Henry School of Computer Science and Engineering Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) Engineering::Computer science and engineering Augmented Reality Virtual Reality 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-through scene separately. With this novel design, prescription eyeglasses for near- and far-sighted users become unnecessary. This is achieved by integrating the wearer's corrective optical prescription into the tunable lens for both virtual display and see-through environment. We built a prototype based on the design, comprised of micro-display, optical systems, a tunable lens, and active shutters. The experimental results confirm that the proposed near-eye display design can switch between AR and VR and can provide correct accommodation for both. NRF (Natl Research Foundation, S’pore) Accepted version 2020-05-06T09:16:35Z 2020-05-06T09:16:35Z 2019 Journal Article Xia, X., Guan, Y., State, A., Chakravarthula, P., Rathinavel, K., Cham, T.-J., & Fuchs, H. (2019). Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(11), 3114-3124. doi:10.1109/TVCG.2019.2932238 1077-2626 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138478 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2932238 31403422 2-s2.0-85072945475 11 25 3114 3124 en IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics © 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2019.2932238. application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
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country Singapore
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topic Engineering::Computer science and engineering
Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
spellingShingle Engineering::Computer science and engineering
Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality
Xia, Xinxing
Guan, Yunqing
State, Andrei
Chakravarthula, Praneeth
Rathinavel, Kishore
Cham, Tat-Jen
Fuchs, Henry
Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support
description 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-through scene separately. With this novel design, prescription eyeglasses for near- and far-sighted users become unnecessary. This is achieved by integrating the wearer's corrective optical prescription into the tunable lens for both virtual display and see-through environment. We built a prototype based on the design, comprised of micro-display, optical systems, a tunable lens, and active shutters. The experimental results confirm that the proposed near-eye display design can switch between AR and VR and can provide correct accommodation for both.
author2 School of Computer Science and Engineering
author_facet School of Computer Science and Engineering
Xia, Xinxing
Guan, Yunqing
State, Andrei
Chakravarthula, Praneeth
Rathinavel, Kishore
Cham, Tat-Jen
Fuchs, Henry
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author Xia, Xinxing
Guan, Yunqing
State, Andrei
Chakravarthula, Praneeth
Rathinavel, Kishore
Cham, Tat-Jen
Fuchs, Henry
author_sort Xia, Xinxing
title Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support
title_short Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support
title_full Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support
title_fullStr Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support
title_full_unstemmed Towards a switchable AR/VR near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support
title_sort towards a switchable ar/vr near-eye display with accommodation-vergence and eyeglass prescription support
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