Project Number
- 319
Title
- Occlusive Optical See-Through Displays in a Collaborative Setup
Description
- Head-mounted display for showing opaque virtual objects interacting with real-world objects.
Contact
- Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
Affiliation
- Communications Research Laboratory
Address
- 4337 15th Avenue NE, #304
- Seattle, Washington 98105
- kiyo@crl.go.jp
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- ELMO is an optical see-through head-mounted display (HMD) capable of showing opaque virtual objects interacting with real objects. Occlusion is achieved by using a secondary LCD to properly block incoming light on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
- "ELMO realizes a 3D collaborative workstation that has the following three advantages:"
- 1 - unlike video see-through HMDs, users can see non-digitized real collaborators for superior awareness and natural non-verbal communication cues
- 2 - unlike fixed displays, virtual objects can appear anywhere in the workspace, e.g., between to user's faces
- 3 - unlike conventional optical see-through HMDs, virtual objects can be transparent or opaque as required by a certain task
Sight
- graphics workstation, ELMO-4 see-through head-mounted display
Sound
Touch
- see-through head-mounted display
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- The newly designed ELMO-4 is lighter (1.5kg) and with smaller optics, supporting natural viewing with absolutely no viewing offset
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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