The zone of comfort: Predicting visual discomfort with stereo displays

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1-29

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MEDIATEK INC   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Asthenopia; Depth perception; Discomfort; Displays; Fatigue; Stereopsis; Vergence

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOPIA; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; ASTHENOPIA; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; VISION, BINOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053985411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.8.1     Document Type: Article

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