fVisiOn: glasses-free tabletop 3D display to provide virtual 3D media naturally alongside real media

Shunsuke Yoshida

doi:10.1117/12.920542

15 May 2012 fVisiOn: glasses-free tabletop 3D display to provide virtual 3D media naturally alongside real media

Shunsuke Yoshida

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Proceedings Volume 8384, Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2012; 838411 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920542
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

A novel glasses-free tabletop 3D display, named fVisiOn, floats virtual 3D objects on an empty, flat, tabletop surface and enables multiple viewers to observe raised 3D images from any angle at 360° Our glasses-free 3D image reproduction method employs a combination of an optical device and an array of projectors and produces continuous horizontal parallax in the direction of a circular path located above the table. The optical device shapes a hollow cone and works as an anisotropic diffuser. The circularly arranged projectors cast numerous rays into the optical device. Each ray represents a particular ray that passes a corresponding point on a virtual object's surface and orients toward a viewing area around the table. At any viewpoint on the ring-shaped viewing area, both eyes collect fractional images from different projectors, and all the viewers around the table can perceive the scene as 3D from their perspectives because the images include binocular disparity. The entire principle is installed beneath the table, so the tabletop area remains clear. No ordinary tabletop activities are disturbed. Many people can naturally share the 3D images displayed together with real objects on the table. In our latest prototype, we employed a handmade optical device and an array of over 100 tiny projectors. This configuration reproduces static and animated 3D scenes for a 130° viewing area and allows 5-cm-tall virtual characters to play soccer and dance on the table.

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Shunsuke Yoshida "fVisiOn: glasses-free tabletop 3D display to provide virtual 3D media naturally alongside real media", Proc. SPIE 8384, Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2012, 838411 (15 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920542

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