Dynallax: Solid State Dynamic Parallax Barrier Autostereoscopic VR Display
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| Charlotte, NC, USA March 10-March 14 |
Tom Peterka, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois, Chicago. tpeterka@evl.uic.edu
Robert L. Kooima, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois, Chicago
Javier I. Girado, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois, Chicago
Jinghua Ge, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois, Chicago
Daniel J. Sandin, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois, Chicago; California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, San Diego
Andrew Johnson, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois, Chicago
Jason Leigh, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois, Chicago
Jurgen Schulze, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, San Diego
Thomas A. DeFanti, Electronic Visualization Laboratory University of Illinois, Chicago; California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, San Diego
A novel barrier strip autostereoscopic (AS) display is demonstrated using a solid-state dynamic parallax barrier. A dynamic barrier mitigates restrictions inherent in static barrier systems such as fixed view distance range, slow response to head movements, and fixed stereo operating mode. By dynamically varying barrier parameters in real time, viewers may move closer to the display and move faster laterally than with a static barrier system. Furthermore, users can switch between 3D and 2D modes by disabling the barrier. Dynallax is head-tracked, directing view channels to positions in space reported by a tracking system in real time. Such head-tracked parallax barrier systems have traditionally supported only a single viewer, but by varying the barrier period to eliminate conflicts between viewers, Dynallax presents four independent eye channels when two viewers are present. Each viewer receives an independent pair of left and right eye perspective views based on their position in 3D space. The display device is constructed using a dual-stacked LCD monitor where a dynamic barrier is rendered on the front display and the rear display produces a modulated VR scene composed of two or four channels. A small-scale head-tracked prototype VR system is demonstrated. Performance data are analyzed while advantages, disadvantages, ongoing and future work are identified.
Citation:
Tom Peterka, Robert L. Kooima, Javier I. Girado, Jinghua Ge, Daniel J. Sandin, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jurgen Schulze, Thomas A. DeFanti, "Dynallax: Solid State Dynamic Parallax Barrier Autostereoscopic VR Display," vr, pp.155-162, 2007 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, 2007
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