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Beaming Displays

Itoh, Y; Kaminokado, T; Aksit, K; (2021) Beaming Displays. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3067764. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Existing near-eye display designs struggle to balance between multiple trade-offs such as form factor, weight, computational requirements, and battery life. These design trade-offs are major obstacles on the path towards an all-day usable near-eye display. In this work, we address these trade-offs by, paradoxically, removing the display from near-eye displays. We present the beaming displays, a new type of near-eye display system that uses a projector and an all passive wearable headset. We modify an off-the-shelf projector with additional lenses. We install such a projector to the environment to beam images from a distance to a passive wearable headset. The beaming projection system tracks the current position of a wearable headset to project distortion-free images with correct perspectives. In our system, a wearable headset guides the beamed images to a user’s retina, which are then perceived as an augmented scene within a user’s field of view. In addition to providing the system design of the beaming display, we provide a physical prototype and show that the beaming display can provide resolutions as high as consumer-level near-eye displays. We also discuss the different aspects of the design space for our proposal.

Type: Article
Title: Beaming Displays
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3067764
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2021.3067764
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Augmented reality, Near-eye displays, Projectors, Ergonomics, Power, Thermal concerns, Performance
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125462
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