Explorations of Display Interfaces for Virtual Reality

The technical limitations of early Virtual Reality systems made them almost teasers for showing the potential of the technology. Since these early days, many researchers have focused on understanding the display factors affecting quality and realism in Virtual Reality display systems. This paper surveys such work, and presents some new data based on experience with the Virtual Portal: a new high-resolution, lowdistortion, inclusive Virtual Reality display system, built with three rear screen projectors covering three sides of a small room with head-tracked stereo display. Successes and limitation Three alternatives to the traditional head mounted Virtual Reality display are described. One configuration is the Virtual Holographic Workstation; an external stereo CRT viewed by a user wearing head tracking stereo shutter glasses. Another is a Computer Augmented Reality camcorder, where virtual objects are composited onto live video using six axis tracking information about the location ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1993
• Where: VR
• Authors: Michael F. Deering
• Keywords: Reality Display System, Stereo Displays, Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality Display, VR 1993