Title

Design Of An Ultra-Light Head-Mounted Projective Display (Hmpd) And Its Applications In Augmented Collaborative Environments

Keywords

Augmented reality (AR); Distributed collaborative environment; Head-mounted display (HMD); Head-mounted projective display (HMPD); Mixed reality (MR); Stereoscopic display; Virtual environment

Abstract

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) are widely used for 3D visualization tasks such as surgical planning, scientific visualization, or engineering design. Even though the HMD technologies have undergone great development, tradeoffs in capability and limitation exist. The concept of head-mounted projective displays (HMPDs) is an emerging Technology on the boundary of conventional HMDs and projective displays such as the CAVE technology. It has been recently demonstrated to yield 3D visualization capability with potentially a large FOV, lightweight optics, low distortion, as well as correct occlusion of virtual objects by real objects. As such, the HMPD has been proposed as an alternative to stereoscopic displays for 3D visualization applications. In this paper, a brief review the HMPD technology is followed by the presentation of a recent design and implementation of a compact HMPD prototype based on an ultra-light design of projective optics using diffractive optical element (DOE) and plastic components. Finally, we will include applications of the HMPD technology being developed across three universities for augmented visualization tasks and distributed collaboration in augmented environments. © 2002 SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.

Publication Date

5-24-2002

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

4660

Issue

1

Number of Pages

492-497

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.468067

Socpus ID

0036057158 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0036057158

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