Dynparity: Dynamic disparity adjustment to avoid stereo window violations on stationary stereoscopic displays. (16th August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schröder‐Dering, Christoph; Zachmann, Gabriel; Weller, René
• Other Names: Kim Jinman guestEditor.; Papagiannakis George guestEditor.; Sheng Bin guestEditor.; Thalmann Daniel guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Computer animation and virtual worlds. Volume 33:Number 6(2022)
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• Publication Date: 2022-08-16
• Subjects: stereo window violation -- stereoscopic 3D -- user studies -- visual discomfort; Computer animation -- Periodicals; Visualization -- Periodicals; 006.6
• DOI: 10.1002/cav.2099
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1546-4261

Abstract

Abstract: We propose a novel method to avoid stereo window violations at screen borders. These occur for objects in front of the zero parallax plane, which appear in front of the (physical) screen, and that are clipped for one eye while still being visible for the other eye. This contradicts other stereo cues, particularly disparity, potentially resulting in eye strain and simulator sickness. In interactive and dynamic virtual environments, where the user controls the camera, for example, via head tracking, it is impossible to avoid stereo window violations completely. We propose Dynparity, a novel rendering method to eliminate the conflict between clipping and negative disparity, by introducing a nonuniform stereoscopic projection. For each vertex in front of the zero parallax plane, we compute the stereoscopic projection such that the parallax approaches zero toward the edge of the screen. Our approach works entirely on the GPU in real‐time and can be easily included in modern game engines. We conducted a user study comparing our method to the standard stereo projection on a large‐screen stereo wall with head tracking. Our results show significantly reduced simulator sickness when using Dynparity compared to the standard stereo rendering. Abstract : Stereo window violations in 3D rendering occur when virtual objects in front of a physical screen are clipped at the screen borders. Dynparity introduces a real‐time, per‐vertex, nonuniform projection to eliminate this adversary effect. Our user study shows that Dynparity significantly reduces simulator sickness compared to standard stereo rendering on a large stereo projection screen.