A Superwide-FOV Optical Design for Head-Mounted Displays

Rakkolainen, Ismo; Turk, Matthew; Höllerer, Tobias

A Superwide-FOV Optical Design for Head-Mounted Displays

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Date

2016

Authors

Rakkolainen, Ismo
Turk, Matthew
Höllerer, Tobias

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We present a new optical design for head-mounted displays (HMD) that has an exceptionally wide field of view (FOV). It can cover even the full human FOV. It is based on seamless lenses and screens curved around the eyes. We constructed several compact and lightweight proof-of-concept prototypes of the optical design. One of them far exceeds the human FOV, although the anatomy of the human head limits the effective FOV. The presented optical design has advantages such as compactness, light weight, low cost and superwide FOV with high resolution. The prototypes are promising, and though this is still work-in-progress and display functionality is not yet implemented, it suggests a feasible way to significantly expand the FOV of HMDs.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:egve.20161433
,
booktitle = {ICAT-EGVE 2016 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {Dirk Reiners and Daisuke Iwai and Frank Steinicke
},
title = {{A Superwide-FOV Optical Design for Head-Mounted Displays
}},
author = {Rakkolainen, Ismo and 
Turk, Matthew and 
Höllerer, Tobias
},
year = {2016
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-012-3
},
DOI = {10.2312/egve.20161433
}
}