Oculus Varifocal Half-Dome
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): TrendBT
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/06/30
Oculus Research’s Douglas Lanman, who has since moved to Facebook’s Reality Labs, was at the 2018 SID Display Week event. He was part of a session about 40 minutes long to show the most recent VR hardware developed by his team.
He was talking about the immersive VR environments and the Oculus Varifocal Displays. A varifocal display is also known as a multi-focal plane head-mounted display or an HMD technology. It works to deal with one of the problems inherent in the extant stereoscopic displays.
In the current technology, the user’s eyes have to work to correct for the fixed focal distance. But then there are the changes in the angles of convergence in order to see the 3D content. The content will be rendered at different depths.
The focal plane in these new technologies is dynamically controlled. They can help with visual fatigue and other problems inherent in the older technology of which these ones hope to replace. “It makes for a pretty fascinating watch and, eventually, leads to the Half-Dome prototype that Facebook first teased at its F8 conference last month. This new device has a massive 140-degrees field of view with varifocal optics and more,” the article stated, “We don’t know when/if we’ll see the Half-Dome released as a true successor to the Oculus Rift but hopefully we’ll have more to talk about at this year’s Oculus Connect developer conference. That takes place this September.”
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