39.3 Hyper-reality Head Dome Projector $^{TM}$(HDP) for future displays

  • Okumura, Haruhiko (Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corp.) ;
  • Sasaki, Takashi (Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corp.) ;
  • Hotta, Aira (Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corp.) ;
  • Okada, Naotada (Corporate Manufacturing Engineering Center, Toshiba Corp.)
  • Published : 2008.10.13

Abstract

In this paper, we developed a novel hyperreality display called the Head Dome Projector (HDP). The HDP is a head-mounted display consisting of a dome-shaped screen with a very small radius of 40 cm, a mobile projector with ultra-wide projection lens and LED light sources. The main feature of the HDP is very wide viewing angle of 160 degrees horizontally by 120 degrees vertically comparable to the human visual field of view without head tracking and 360 degrees by 360 degrees with head tracking. According to our subjective evaluation comparing the HDP with a flat-panel display (FPD), the HDP realizes hyperreality 2.5 points higher than that realized by an FPD in the case of ${\pm}5$ level evaluation for HD motion images.

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