Pre-recorded Sessions: From 4 December 2020 | Live Sessions: 10 – 13 December 2020
4 – 13 December 2020
Optimizing Depth Perception in Virtual and Augmented Reality through Gaze-contingent Stereo Rendering
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Date/Time:
04 – 13 December 2020
All presentations are available in the virtual platform on-demand.
Lecturer(s):
Brooke Krajancich, Stanford University, United States of America
Petr Kellnhofer, Stanford University, Raxium, United States of America
Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University, United States of America
Bio:
Description: Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) displays crucially rely on stereoscopic rendering to enable perceptually realistic user experiences. Yet, existing neareye display systems ignore the gaze-dependent shift of the no-parallax point in the human eye. Here, we introduce a gaze-contingent stereo rendering technique that models this effect and conduct several user studies to validate its effectiveness. Our findings include experimental validation of the location of the no-parallax point, which we then use to demonstrate significant improvements of disparity and shape distortion in a VR setting, and consistent alignment of physical and digitally rendered objects across depths in optical see-through AR. Our work shows that gaze-contingent stereo rendering improves perceptual realism and depth perception of emerging wearable computing systems.
