抄録
Driving simulators have many benefits as exemplified by easiness of securing safety and repeatability. Therefore, they have been used for driver training and vehicle development. High sense of reality, that is, a sense that one is driving a real car is required for a driving simulator. If the sense of reality is poor, it is difficult to reproduce the operations that subject drivers do with real cars. Therefore improving the reality of driving simulators has been demanded. To improve the reality of driving simulator, researches for improving body sensory information and visual information have been promoted. Stereoscopic technology is currently being focused on because it gives information about depth of space by binocular parallax. However, studies using stereoscopic technology in driving simulator have not been done much. This study focuses on the stereoscopic technology, and investigates the effectiveness of the stereoscopic technology for driving simulator by experiments. As a result, in terms of distance recognition, primacy of 3D images over 2D images was not confirmed in conditions of experiments conducted in this study. However, it was confirmed that 3D images make it easy to perceive anteroposterior movement of objects under certain conditions.
