A novel prototype for an optical see-through head-mounted display with addressable focus cues

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 381-393

  Liu, Sheng ^a   Hua, Hong ^a   Cheng, Dewen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Convergence; Focus cues; Mixed and augmented reality; Retinal blur; Three dimensional displays; User studies.

Indexed keywords

FOCAL DISTANCES; FOCAL PLANE; FOCUS CUES; LIQUID LENS; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; OPERATION MODE; OPTICAL SEE-THROUGH HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS; REAL-WORLD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY; TIME MULTIPLEXED; USER STUDY; VIEWING CONDITIONS; VIRTUAL DISPLAYS;

AUGMENTED REALITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FOCUSING;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PILOT STUDY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CUES; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PILOT PROJECTS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77949658352     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.95     Document Type: Article

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