A Design for a Smartphone-Based Head Mounted Display

[Fredz]

I’m traveling to the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference in Singapore this weekend. I’m presenting a poster describing our prototype head mounted display which uses two smartphones as displays and 3D rendering engines.

The cool thing about this prototype is that it is completely wireless. The phones do all the rendering. We use a Phasespace Impulse motion capture system for head tracking, but all that head tracking data is transmitted to the phones over WiFi.





We have a number of other posters and talks at IEEE VR from our lab. We have a presentation on redirected walking, our software toolkit FAAST which lets you control any application using the Microsoft Kinect, and a poster that shows how the Kinect can put real people into virtual reality scenes.

Publication : http://people.ict.usc.edu/~suma/papers/ ... poster.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Source : http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/blog/sm ... e-vr-2011/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[PalmerTech]

I have made a thread about this before: http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=13158" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I have also used the HMD! It has a lot of issues, some of which they outline in the paper. It is almost impossible to get the phones to render in sync, and even if you could, you are limited to custom content that you create specifically for the HMD. Besides... The resolution is actually lower than that of the PR3.

Still really cool, though! If I were to make a smartphone based HMD, I would buy the upcoming Samsung Note (5.3" 720p OLED display), and use it with optics similar to the PR3.

[Fredz]

Ah sorry, I somewhat missed your previous thread about this HMD. I should know you are always on the bleeding edge for this kind of thing...