Paper Info
Title
Manufacturing Application-Driven Foveated Near-Eye Displays.
Abstract
Traditional optical manufacturing poses a great challenge to near-eye display designers due to large lead times in the order of multiple weeks, limiting the abilities of optical designers to iterate fast and explore beyond conventional designs. We present a complete near-eye display manufacturing pipeline with a day lead time using commodity hardware. Our novel manufacturing pipeline consists of several innovations including a rapid production technique to improve surface of a 3D printed component to optical quality suitable for near-eye display application, a computational design methodology using machine learning and ray tracing to create freeform static projection screen surfaces for near-eye displays that can represent arbitrary focal surfaces, and a custom projection lens design that distributes pixels non-uniformly for a foveated near-eye display hardware design candidate. We have demonstrated untethered augmented reality near-eye display prototypes to assess success of our technique, and show that a ski-goggles form factor, a large monocular field of view (30deg×55deg), and a resolution of 12 cycles per degree can be achieved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TVCG.2019.2898781
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Three-dimensional displays,Optical refraction,Optical waveguides,Optical design,Adaptive optics,Optical surface waves
Field of view,Computer vision,Projection screen,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Ray tracing (graphics),Augmented reality,Lead time,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Monocular,Adaptive optics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
5
1941-0506
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.42
30
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kaan Aksit1606.34
Praneeth Kumar2154.75
Kishore Rathinavel3303.38
Youngmo Jeong430.42
Rachel Albert5303.20
Henry Fuchs641661248.53
David Luebke72196140.84