OSC Colloquium: Douglas Lanman, "How to Pass the Visual Turing Test in AR/VR"

Title
How to Pass the Visual Turing Test in AR/VR
Abstract
How can a display appear indistinguishable from reality? We describe how to pass this “visual Turing test” using AR/VR headsets, emphasizing the perceptually driven joint design of optics, display components, rendering algorithms, and sensing elements. Topics covered include compact holographic optical elements for ultra-compact VR headsets, high-resolution viewing optics, accommodation-supporting VR headsets, distortion correction, wide fields of view, high dynamic range, occlusion-capable AR displays, and mixed reality passthrough systems.
For more details, see these recent blog posts and a related interview with Tested.com:
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www.meta.com/blog/quest/reali...
• Hands-On with Meta's N...
Bio
Douglas is the Senior Director of Display Systems Research at Reality Labs Research, Meta, where he leads investigations into advanced display and imaging technologies. He is also an Affiliate Instructor at the University of Washington CSE Department, where he teaches a course on building VR headsets from scratch. His prior research has focused on head-mounted displays, glasses-free 3D displays, light field cameras, and active illumination for 3D reconstruction and interaction. He received a B.S. in Applied Physics with Honors from Caltech in 2002 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brown University in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He was a Senior Research Scientist at Nvidia Research from 2012 to 2014, a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Media Lab from 2010 to 2012, and an Assistant Research Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2002 to 2005.
More: www.optics.arizona.edu/colloq...

[@RA-el6vn]

Such a badass talk. Need more of this. Very happy people like Mr Lanman are working so hard on this stuff!

[@Junglejuz]

Amazing talk. Thanks so much. This needs a much wider audience.

[@rymazon]

Thats crazy everyone skipped class this day, look at all those empty seats 💀. This should have been an industry conference.

[@francokees1493]

very useful

[@petergerdes1094]

That's really interesting but the reverse passthrough seems unnecessary. Far better to use that weight to improve the display. I figure you have two equilibria. First, AR displays are basically used occasionally by individuals or in specific jobs and you take them off for interpersonal in person interaction. In that case you don't really need it. Second, AR displays become virtually ubiquitous. In that case just share the eye tracking data directly with the nearby individuals and render their face on your display.

[@Depressed-teen-making-videos]

Start of the new be headset 1:01:00

[@user-wt8bj1fq5c]

Why decided to achieving vari-focal by mechanical motor instead of 6-layer PB lens in the final demo? Ha, think it‘s thicky one.

[@Haunteral]

Apple won

[@mikeb3172]

Why does he use animal abuse catch phrases...