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The Varrier™ Autostereoscopic VR Display An OptIPuter Display System

Daniel Sandin, Todd Margolis, Tom PeterkaJavier Girado, Robert Kooima, Thomas DeFanti

E V L U I CC a l I t 2 U C S D

January 2007

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Complete Panel-Based Auto-Stereo VR

• Viewer-centered perspective– with no tracker to wear

• Wide angle of view 120 - 230 horizontal

• Stereo vision– without glasses

• Interactive and real-time

• Successor to the CAVE

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VR Without Attachments

• Auto-stereo– no glasses– images are directed out to the viewer’s eyes– single user

• Camera-based head tracking– tracking needed for VR and to direct images

to eyes

• Walk in the room and VR is in your face– currently wearing a head target is best

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Cylindrical Varrier™

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Cylindrical Varrier™40 Mpix / eye

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Personal Varrier 1

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Personal Varrier 3

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Barrier Strip Auto-StereoQuick Review

• Columns of right and left eye images viewed through slits

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Varrier™ Auto-StereoSoftware

• All Current Demos are in Electro– application development environment – MPI process model – bound to the Lua programming language – cluster-driven tiled displays– virtual reality systems– desktop workstation– multiplatform Linux, Windows, Mac

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Varrier™ Auto-Stereoand the OptIPuter

• Current compatibilities with OptIPuter– any current Electro-Varrier application can

run on the tiled displays in non-stereo– same for COVISE– Have to add a 3d input device– Electro applications run on CAVEs and Cwall– COVISE applications run on CAVEs and Cwall– Varrier displays exist at EVL, Calit2, TRECC

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Varrier™ Auto-Stereoand the OptIPuter

• Things that need to be done– port COVISE

• in planning stage

– port CAVElib ?• originally worked; easy to do if there is demand

– Integrate into SAGE• in planning stage

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Varrier™ Auto-Stereoand the OptIPuter

• Varrier is ready to be copied by partners

• Arrangements have been made for people to buy it

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