Wednesday, May 2025

12:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Room: 220A Locate

Session: Luncheon

Perceptual Science for Augmented Reality Systems

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  Associate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science

  Emily Cooper

  University of California, Berkeley

Description:

Today’s augmented reality (AR) systems aim to seamlessly merge our computer’s display into our view of the natural world. But AR systems often suffer from technical and visual limitations, such as small eyeboxes, limited brightness, and narrow visual field coverage – not to mention poor aesthetics. An integral part of AR system development, therefore, is perceptual research that improves our understanding of when and why these limitations matter for the user. Cooper describes a series of AR system engineering challenges and associated perceptual studies designed to provide guidance for navigating these challenges. This work highlights the idiosyncrasies of how the visual system integrates information from the two eyes, the complexities of quantifying visual field coverage, and the unique puzzles that must be solved for a computer display to be worn on your face.

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