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Adaptive dynamic refocusing: toward solving discomfort in virtual reality

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Pierre-Yves Laffont,

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SIGGRAPH '17: ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Emerging Technologies

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3084822.3084839

Published: 30 July 2017 Publication History

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We present an approach for eliminating the vergence-accommodation conflict, a fundamental cause of discomfort in today's Virtual Reality. We replace traditional lenses in a head-mounted display with a focus-adjustable optical system which provides accommodation cues consistent with the true depth of an observed object. In addition, we take into account the eyeglasses prescription of the user to enable the use of Virtual Reality without eyeglasses. We integrate our system into a commercial headset and demonstrate that solving the vergence-accommodation is possible in a compact form factor without affecting the resolution.

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Porcino TRodrigues ESilva AClua ETrevisan D(2020)Using the gameplay and user data to predict and identify causes of cybersickness manifestation in virtual reality games2020 IEEE 8th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)10.1109/SeGAH49190.2020.9201649(1-8)Online publication date: Aug-2020
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Porcino TTrevisan DClua E(2020)Minimizing cybersickness in head-mounted display systems: causes and strategies review2020 22nd Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR)10.1109/SVR51698.2020.00035(154-163)Online publication date: Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/SVR51698.2020.00035
Laffont PHasnain AGuillemet PWirajaya SKhoo JTeng DBazin J(2018)VerifocalACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies10.1145/3214907.3214925(1-2)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3214907.3214925

Index Terms

Adaptive dynamic refocusing: toward solving discomfort in virtual reality
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Hardware
  1. Emerging technologies
    1. Emerging optical and photonic technologies

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Porcino TRodrigues ESilva AClua ETrevisan D(2020)Using the gameplay and user data to predict and identify causes of cybersickness manifestation in virtual reality games2020 IEEE 8th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)10.1109/SeGAH49190.2020.9201649(1-8)Online publication date: Aug-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/SeGAH49190.2020.9201649
Porcino TTrevisan DClua E(2020)Minimizing cybersickness in head-mounted display systems: causes and strategies review2020 22nd Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR)10.1109/SVR51698.2020.00035(154-163)Online publication date: Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/SVR51698.2020.00035
Laffont PHasnain AGuillemet PWirajaya SKhoo JTeng DBazin J(2018)VerifocalACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies10.1145/3214907.3214925(1-2)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3214907.3214925

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