Experimental Wide Visual Field Stereoscopic Display with Five Screens

Abstract

We developed an experimental wide visual field stereoscopic display system, like CAVE, in order to investigate the effects of the wide visual field and stereoscopic image on the sensation of reality. This display is constructed of five screens which are set on the four sides-left, right, top and bottom-in addition to the front. Each screen is 40 inches. Two channels of HDTV frame memory are used as the image source for generating the left and right eye images displayed on the five screens. The stereoscopic image displayed on each screen is composed by polarizing the left and right eye images line by line. Therefore the stereoscopic image can be viewed with polarizing glasses. This display system can be used not examining the effects or the wide visual field and stereoscopic image on the sensation of reality.