A new Maxwellian view display for trouble‐free accommodation

Abstract

We studied a new display system that realizes a Maxwellian view. The system is composed of a base display and a fly‐eye lens with micro‐pinholes. This forms ray intersecting points of diameter of 0.8 mm at a viewing distance of 280 mm. It was confirmed that the new display system can extend the depth of field of the human eye system, where the observer sets the ray intersecting point at his pupil.

Challenges and Advancements for AR Optical See-Through Near-Eye Displays: A Review

“…To mitigate the VAC issue, Maxwellian view AR NEDs have been developed (Yuuki et al, 2012). Different from other methods which render virtual imagery with true focal cue for each eye, Maxwellian view AR NEDs, or retina scanning displays, use pinhole imaging to project and focus the virtual imagery onto the retina (Choi et al, 2020c).…”

Towards a Switchable AR/VR Near-eye Display with Accommodation-Vergence and Eyeglass Prescription Support

“…Holographic methods were employed to achieve Maxwellian view near-eye displays with large eye boxes through scanning of the exit pupil [15,33]. The light field method is also utilized to achieve a large eye box, but it suffers from poor resolution as in light field near-eye displays [32,38]. To achieve vision correction for the near-/far-sighted or presbyopia users, some researchers proposed some novel designs of Maxwellian view near-eye displays with corrective lens [3] or contact lens [37].…”

Multifocal displays: review and prospect

“…However, so far these technologies are still not ideal for practical applications due to their demanding hardware requirements. On the other hand, there are also solutions with extended depth of focus (DOF), such as Maxwellian-view retinal projection [22][23][24][25] and varifocal displays [26][27][28], offering blur-free images independent of the human eye's focusing state, i.e., accommodation. Since these approaches cannot provide the natural optical blur, they require additional computational rendering to include the retinal blur in the digital images with proper eye-tracking devices [29] for a realistic viewing experience.…”