11‐1: Invited Paper: Towards the Ultimate Mixed Reality Experience: HoloLens Display Architecture Choices. Issue 1 (May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kress, Bernard C.; Cummings, William J.
• Is Part Of: Digest of technical papers. Volume 48:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 127
• Page End: 131
• Publication Date: 2017-05
• Subjects: Augmented Reality -- Mixed Reality -- Virtual Reality -- waveguide gratings -- holography -- diffractive optics -- micro-display -- depth map sensing; Information display systems -- Congresses; 621.3815422
• DOI: 10.1002/sdtp.11586
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0097-966X

Abstract

Abstract : HoloLens by Microsoft Corp. is the world's first untethered Mixed Reality (MR) Head Mounted Display (HMD) system, released to developers in March 2016 as a Development Kit. We review in this paper the various display requirements and subsequent optical hardware choices we made for HoloLens. Its main achievements go along performance and comfort for the user: it is the first fully untethered MR headset, with the highest angular resolution and the industry's largest eyebox. It has the first inside‐out global sensor fusion system including precise head tracking and 3D mapping all controlled by a fully custom on‐board GPU. Based on such achievements, HoloLens came out as the most advanced MR system today. Additional features may be implemented in next generations MR headsets, leading to the ultimate experience for the user, and securing the upcoming fabulous AR/MR market predicted by most analysts.