The Varrier autostereoscopic virtual reality display
Daniel J. Sandin, Todd Margolis, Jinghua Ge, Javier Girado, Tom Peterka, Thomas A. DeFanti
In ACM Transactions on Graphics, 24(3), August 2005.
Abstract: Virtual reality (VR) has long been hampered by the gear needed to make the experience possible; specifically, stereo glasses and tracking devices. Autostereoscopic display devices are gaining popularity by freeing the user from stereo glasses, however few qualify as VR displays. The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has designed and produced a large scale, high resolution head-tracked barrier-strip autostereoscopic display system that produces a VR immersive experience without requiring the user to wear any encumbrances. The resulting system, called Varrier, is a passive parallax barrier 35-panel tiled display that produces a wide field of view, head-tracked VR experience. This paper presents background material related to parallax barrier autostereoscopy, provides system configuration and construction details, examines Varrier interleaving algorithms used to produce the stereo images, introduces calibration and testing, and discusses the camera-based tracking subsystem.
Keyword(s): TOG, autostereoscopic display, camera-based tracking, parallaxbarrier, varrier, virtual reality
Article URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1073204.1073279
BibTeX format:
@article{Sandin:2005:TVA,
  author = {Daniel J. Sandin and Todd Margolis and Jinghua Ge and Javier Girado and Tom Peterka and Thomas A. DeFanti},
  title = {The Varrier autostereoscopic virtual reality display},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
  volume = {24},
  number = {3},
  pages = {894--903},
  month = aug,
  year = {2005},
}
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