Optical gesture sensing and depth mapping technologies for head-mounted displays: an overview

Bernard Kress; Johnny Lee

doi:10.1117/12.2017986

31 May 2013 Optical gesture sensing and depth mapping technologies for head-mounted displays: an overview

Bernard Kress, Johnny Lee

Proceedings Volume 8720, Photonic Applications for Aerospace, Commercial, and Harsh Environments IV; 87200C (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2017986
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Head Mounted Displays (HMDs), and especially see-through HMDs have gained renewed interest in recent time, and for the first time outside the traditional military and defense realm, due to several high profile consumer electronics companies presenting their products to hit market. Consumer electronics HMDs have quite different requirements and constrains as their military counterparts. Voice comments are the de-facto interface for such devices, but when the voice recognition does not work (not connection to the cloud for example), trackpad and gesture sensing technologies have to be used to communicate information to the device. We review in this paper the various technologies developed today integrating optical gesture sensing in a small footprint, as well as the various related 3d depth mapping sensors.

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Bernard Kress and Johnny Lee "Optical gesture sensing and depth mapping technologies for head-mounted displays: an overview", Proc. SPIE 8720, Photonic Applications for Aerospace, Commercial, and Harsh Environments IV, 87200C (31 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2017986

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