Paper Info
Title
Pepper's Cone: An Inexpensive Do-It-Yourself 3D Display.
Abstract
This paper describes a simple 3D display that can be built from a tablet computer and a plastic sheet folded into a cone. This display allows naturally viewing a three-dimensional object from any direction over a 360-degree path of travel without the use of a head mount or special glasses. Inspired by the classic Pepper's Ghost illusion, our approach uses a curved transparent surface to reflect the image displayed on a 2D display. By properly pre-distorting the displayed image our system can produce a perspective-correct image to the viewer that appears to be suspended inside the reflector. We use the gyroscope integrated into modern tablet computers to adjust the rendered image based on the relative orientation of the viewer. The end result is a natural and intuitive interface for inspecting a 3D object. Our choice of a cone reflector is obtained by analyzing optical performance and stereo-compatibility over rotationally-symmetric conic reflector shapes. We also present the prototypes we built and measure the performance of our display through side-by-side comparisons with reference images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3126594.3126602
UIST '17: The 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Québec City QC Canada October, 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
3D Displays, Pepper's Ghost, Computer Graphics
Illusion,Computer vision,Gyroscope,Computer graphics (images),Stereo display,Computer science,Image based,Augmented reality,Artificial intelligence,Conic section,Computer graphics,Mount
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-4981-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuan Luo13010.84
Jason Lawrence200.68
Steven M. Seitz38729495.13