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ThinVR: VR displays with wide FOV in a compact form factor

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Joshua Ratcliff,

Alexey Supikov,

Santiago Alfaro,

Ronald AzumaAuthors Info & Claims

SIGGRAPH '20: ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Emerging Technologies

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We demonstrate ThinVR as a new approach to simultaneously address the bulk and limited FOV of today’s head-worn VR displays. ThinVR enables a VR display to provide 180 degrees horizontal FOV in a thin, compact form factor. Our approach is to replace traditional large optics with a curved microlens array of custom-designed heterogeneous lenslets and place these in front of a curved display. Custom-designed heterogeneous optics were crucial to make this approach work, since over a wide FOV, many lenslets are viewed off the central axis. We show the viability of the ThinVR approach through two demonstrations, using both dynamic and static displays.

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Joshua Ratcliff, Alexey Supikov, Santiago Alfaro, and Ronald Azuma. 2020. ThinVR: Heterogeneous microlens arrays for compact, 180 degree FOV VR near-eye displays. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 26, 5 (May 2020), 1981–1990. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2020.2973064

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