Project Number
- 276
Title
- Retinal Direct Imaging
Description
- Direct stereoscopic display projector for the human eye.
Contact
- Takahisa Ando
Affiliation
- SANYO Electric Co., Ltd
Address
- Laboratories of Image information Science and Technology
- WTC Bldg, 21F, Mail Box 82
- 1-14-16, Nanko-Kita, Suminoe-ku
- Osaka 559-0034 Japan
- WTC Bldg, 21F, Mail Box 82
- ando@image-lab.or.jp
WWW
Year
- 2000
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "This new stereoscopic display uses a holographic optical element (HOE) to provide a Maxwellian view which converges the coherent parallel rays at the center of the human eye and projects the rays directly on the retina."
- "Direct retinal projection does not rely on the eye's crystalline lens, so the virtual object can be seen at any convergence. Conventional binocular stereoscopic displays (head-mounted displays, for example) disassociate accommodation and convergence, because they have a fixed focal length. This project's stereoscopic retinal projection overcomes that defect."
- "In addition, the HOE grating that provides the holography effect is very efficient in both transparency and diffraction, so users can see the real world and virtual objects at the same time."
Sight
- graphics workstation, retinal projection display
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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