Creating a comfortable stereoscopic viewing experience: Effects of viewing distance and field of view on fusional range

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5664, Issue , 2005, Pages 10-21

  Jin, Elaine W ^a   Miller, Michael E ^a   Endrikhovski, Serguei ^a   Cerosaletti, Cathleen D ^a  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Convergence; Divergence; Eye vergence movement; Field of view; Fusion time; Fusional range; Horizontal disparity; Stereoscopic display; Viewing distance

Indexed keywords

CATHODE RAY TUBES; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EYE MOVEMENTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; VISION; VISION AIDS;

ACCOMODATION; DIVERGENCE; EYE VERGENCE MOVEMENT; FIELD OF VIEW; FUSION TIME; FUSIONAL RANGE; HORIZONTAL DISPARITY; STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY; VIEWING DISTANCE;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 21944431654     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.585992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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