Tracking a head-mounted display in a room-sized environment with head-mounted cameras

Jih-Fang Wang; Ronald T. Azuma; Gary Bishop; Vernon Chi; John Eyles; Henry Fuchs

doi:10.1117/12.20954

1 October 1990 Tracking a head-mounted display in a room-sized environment with head-mounted cameras

Jih-Fang Wang, Ronald T. Azuma, Gary Bishop, Vernon Chi, John Eyles, Henry Fuchs

Proceedings Volume 1290, Helmet-Mounted Displays II; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.20954
Event: 1990 Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1990, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

This paper presents our efforts to accurately track a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) in a large environment. We review our current benchtop prototype (introduced in {WCF9O]), then describe our plans for building the full-scale system. Both systems use an inside-oui optical tracking scheme, where lateraleffect photodiodes mounted on the user's helmet view flashing infrared beacons placed in the environment. Church's method uses the measured 2D image positions and the known 3D beacon locations to recover the 3D position and orientation of the helmet in real-time. We discuss the implementation and performance of the benchtop prototype. The full-scale system design includes ceiling panels that hold the infrared beacons and a new sensor arrangement of two photodiodes with holographic lenses. In the full-scale system, the user can walk almost anywhere under the grid of ceiling panels, making the working volume nearly as large as the room.

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Jih-Fang Wang, Ronald T. Azuma, Gary Bishop, Vernon Chi, John Eyles, and Henry Fuchs "Tracking a head-mounted display in a room-sized environment with head-mounted cameras", Proc. SPIE 1290, Helmet-Mounted Displays II, (1 October 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.20954

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