Visual discomfort with stereo displays: Effects of viewing distance and direction of vergence-accommodation conflict

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7863, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shibata, Takashi ^a,b,c   Kim, Joohwan ^a   Hoffman, David M ^a   Banks, Martin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

comfortable stereo viewing; stereo display; vergence accommodation conflict; viewing distance; visual fatigue

Indexed keywords

COMFORTABLE STEREO VIEWING; STEREO DISPLAY; VERGENCES; VIEWING DISTANCE; VISUAL FATIGUE;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 79953727294     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.872347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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