Paper Info
Title
Novel Optical Configurations for Virtual Reality: Evaluating User Preference and Performance with Focus-tunable and Monovision Near-eye Displays.
Abstract
Emerging virtual reality (VR) displays must overcome the prevalent issue of visual discomfort to provide high-quality and immersive user experiences. In particular, the mismatch between vergence and accommodation cues inherent to most stereoscopic displays has been a long standing challenge. In this paper, we evaluate several adaptive display modes afforded by focus-tunable optics or actuated displays that have the promise to mitigate visual discomfort caused by the vergence-accommodation conflict, and improve performance in VR environments. We also explore monovision as an unconventional mode that allows each eye of an observer to accommodate to a different distance. While this technique is common practice in ophthalmology, we are the first to report its effectiveness for VR applications with a custom built set up. We demonstrate that monovision and other focus-tunable display modes can provide better user experiences and improve user performance in terms of reaction times and accuracy, particularly for nearby simulated distances in VR.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2858036.2858140
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
virtual reality, focus cues, user comfort, user performance
Computer vision,Virtual reality,Vergence,Stereoscopy,Computer science,Visual Discomfort,Human–computer interaction,Immersion (virtual reality),Artificial intelligence,Observer (quantum physics),Multimedia,Accommodation
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-3362-7
27
1.78
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Konrad1424.88
Emily A. Cooper2958.07
Gordon Wetzstein394572.47