Compact and wide-field-of-view head-mounted display

Shoichi Uchiyama; Hiroshi Kamakura; Joji Karasawa; Masafumi Sakaguchi; Takeshi Furihata; Yoshitaka Itoh

doi:10.1117/12.274482

15 May 1997 Compact and wide-field-of-view head-mounted display

Shoichi Uchiyama, Hiroshi Kamakura, Joji Karasawa, Masafumi Sakaguchi, Takeshi Furihata, Yoshitaka Itoh

Proceedings Volume 3012, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems IV; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274482
Event: Electronic Imaging '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A compact and wide field of view HMD having 1.32-in full color VGA poly-Si TFT LCDs and simple eyepieces much like LEEP optics has been developed. The total field of view is 80 deg with a 40 deg overlap in its central area. Each optical unit which includes an LCD and eyepiece is 46 mm in diameter and 42 mm in length. The total number of pixels is equivalent to (864 times 3) times 480. This HMD realizes its wide field of view and compact size by having a narrower binocular area (overlap area) than that of commercialized HMDs. For this reason, it is expected that the frequency of monocular vision will be more than that of commercialized HMDs and human natural vision. Therefore, we researched the convergent state of eyes while observing the monocular areas of this HMD by employing an EOG and considered the suitability of this HMD to human vision. As a result, it was found that the convergent state of the monocular vision was nearly equal to that of binocular vision. That is, it can be said that this HMD has the possibility of being well suited to human vision in terms of the convergence.

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Shoichi Uchiyama, Hiroshi Kamakura, Joji Karasawa, Masafumi Sakaguchi, Takeshi Furihata, and Yoshitaka Itoh "Compact and wide-field-of-view head-mounted display", Proc. SPIE 3012, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems IV, (15 May 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274482

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