Towards Multifocal Displays with Dense Focal Stacks
PubDate: Sep 2018
Teams: Carnegie Mellon University
Writers: Jen-Hao Rick Chang, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan
PDF: Towards Multifocal Displays with Dense Focal Stacks
Abstract
We present a virtual reality display that is capable of generating a dense collection of depth/focal planes. This is achieved by driving a focus-tunable lens to sweep a range of focal lengths at a high frequency and, subsequently, tracking the focal length precisely at microsecond time resolutions using an optical module. Precise tracking of the focal length, coupled with a high-speed display, enables our lab prototype to generate 1600 focal planes per second. This enables a novel first-of-its-kind virtual reality multifocal display that is capable of resolving the vergence-accommodation conflict endemic to today’s displays.