A review of head-mounted displays (HMD) technologies and applications for consumer electronics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8720, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kress, Bernard ^a   Starner, Thad ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented reality; Diffractive optics; Free form optics; Head mounted displays (HMD); Head up displays (HUD); Holographic optics; Optical combiners; Wearable see through display

Indexed keywords

FREEFORM OPTICS; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS; HEAD UP DISPLAYS; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICS; OPTICAL COMBINERS;

AUGMENTED REALITY; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAYS;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EID: 84881079932     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2015654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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