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

Sherstyuk, Andrei, Dey, Arindam, Sandor, Christian, and State, Andrei (2012) Dynamic eye convergence for head-mounted displays improves user performance in virtual environments. In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games. pp. 23-30. From: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, March 9 – 11 2012, Costa Mesa, CA, USA.

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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.

Item ID: 29305
Item Type: Conference Item (Research - E1)
ISBN: 978-1-4503-1194-6
Keywords: stereoscopic vision, hand-eye coordination
Date Deposited: 13 Sep 2013 01:08
FoR Codes: 08 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing > 080111 Virtual Reality and Related Simulation @ 100%
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