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Dynamic eye convergence for head-mounted displays improves user performance in virtual environments

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Andrei Sherstyuk,

Christian Sandor,

Andrei StateAuthors Info & Claims

I3D '12: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Pages 23 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/2159616.2159620

Published: 09 March 2012 Publication History

Abstract

In Virtual Environments (VE), users are often facing tasks that involve direct manipulation of virtual objects at close distances, such as touching, grabbing, placement. In immersive systems that employ head-mounted displays these tasks could be quite challenging, due to lack of convergence of virtual cameras.

We present a mechanism that dynamically converges left and right cameras on target objects in VE. This mechanism simulates the natural process that takes place in real life automatically. As a result, the rendering system maintains optimal conditions for stereoscopic viewing of target objects at varying depths, in real time.

Building on our previous work, which introduced the eye convergence algorithm [Sherstyuk and State 2010], we developed a Virtual Reality (VR) system and conducted an experimental study on effects of eye convergence in immersive VE. This paper gives the full description of the system, the study design and a detailed analysis of the results obtained.

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Index Terms

Dynamic eye convergence for head-mounted displays improves user performance in virtual environments
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Graphics input devices

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I3D '12: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

March 2012

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DOI:10.1145/2159616

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