Vergence-accommodation conflicts hinder visual performance and cause visual fatigue

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Hoffman, David M ^a   Girshick, Ahna R ^a   Akeley, Kurt ^b   Banks, Martin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3D display; Accommodation; Binocular vision; Cue combination; Depth perception; Graphics; Stereopsis; Vergence; Visual fatigue; Volumetric display

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASTHENOPIA; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER TERMINAL; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; ASTHENOPIA; COMPUTER TERMINALS; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 41349091243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.3.33     Document Type: Article

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