Dynamic Virtual Convergence for Video See-through Head-Mounted Displays: Maintaining Maximum Stereo Overlap throughout a Close-Range Work Space

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  • ISAR '01 Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality (ISAR'01)
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  • 2001

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Abstract

We present a technique that allows users of video see-throughhead-mounted displays to work at close rangewithout the typical loss of stereo perception due toreduced nasal side stereo overlap in most of today'scommercial HMDs.Our technique dynamically selects parts of the imagingfrustums acquired by wide-angle head-mounted camerasand re-projects them for the narrower-field-of-viewdisplays. In addition to dynamically maintainingmaximum stereo overlap for objects at a heuristicallyestimated working distance, it also reduces theaccommodation-vergence conflict, at the expense of anewly introduced disparity-vergence conflict. We describethe hardware (assembled from commercial components)and software implementation of our system and report onour experience while using this technique within twodifferent AR applications.