Fakespace Labs, Inc.

Sonicbox, Inc.

Fakespace, Inc.

University of Southern California

Mosi Media, LLC

Other

Im Networks, Inc.

Mark T Bolas

Ian E McDowall

Sung Hoon Kim

William R Jones, Iii

Sara K Fisher

Russell C Mead, Jr

Paul E Debevec

J Adam Jones

Graham Fyffe

Scott Smith

Evan Suma

David M Krum

Gerard Medioni

Abhijeet Ghosh

Xueming Yu

David J Frerichs

Jay Busch

Ruizhe Wang

Pieter Peers

Jonathan Sass

Jonathan M Sass

Ari Y Shapiro

Andrew Jones

Mary McCann

Wei-Wen Feng

Christian Greuel

Russell Mead

Michael N Bolas

Perry Hoberman

Thai Phan

Ian E Mcdowall

Compact and low mass augmented and fully virtual head mounted display designs are disclosed. The disclosed displays employ a display located between the eye and the main optical element of the head mounted display. These designs additionally afford the ability to support augmented reality displays because the user can see both the virtual image from the display and the real world if desired. The designs use semi-transparent displays where either the display emits circularly polarized light or the displays which emits light from one surface or the view of the display directly from the eye is obscured.

Head-mounted augmented reality display

A non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium may contain a program of instructions that cause a computer system running the program of instructions to automatically generate a 3D avatar of a living being, including automatically: causing one or more sensors to generate 3D data indicative of the three dimensional shape and appearance of at least a portion of the living being; and generating a virtual character based on the 3D data that can be animated and controlled.

Rapid avatar capture and simulation using commodity depth sensors

The effective focal length of an optical system can be electronically controlled using switchable wave plates in conjunction with polarized light.

Electrically controlled optical elements and method

A head mounted display (HMD) for viewing a virtual environment generally include a flat display (FD), lenses for focusing on the FD, and a housing to enclose the FD and lenses. The housing is generally opaque to block out all external light, so the viewer only sees light from the FD. By making a portion or all of the housing translucent or transparent, ambient light and other external light can be seen by the viewer, providing additional visual cues and a larger perceived field of view. Additionally, other people can see light from the FD. The lenses are configured to view the FD and parts of the translucent housing.

Control of ambient and stray lighting in a head mounted display

A facial image capture system may capture images of a face of a person while the person is moving. A video camera may capture sequential images of a scene to which the video camera is directed. A marker-based location detection system may determine and generate information about the location of a marker worn on or close to the face of the person. A camera control system may automatically adjusts both the horizontal and vertical direction to which the video camera is directed so as to cause the sequential images of the camera to each be of the face of the person while the person is moving, based on the information about the location of the marker from the marker-based location detection system.

Virtual head mounted video camera system

A head-mounted display (HMD) allows a user to view a virtual environment. The HMD displays a field of view to the user. However, the user may experience simulator sickness or motion sickness from viewing the field of view. The HMD is connected to a sensor which can monitor the user. By monitoring the user's physiological state, the user's simulator sickness can be detected or predicted. To reduce the negative effects, the field of view can be throttled. The field of view can also be throttled in order to provide a better user experience even if the user does not experience sickness.

Dynamic field of view throttling as a means of improving user experience in head mounted virtual environments

A virtual reality hardware and software platform comprised of a stereoscope which attaches to a mobile touchscreen computer/tablet. The stereoscope, in which the user looks through, covers just the top portion of the tablet screen. This top portion displays the stereoscopic view of a virtual environment. The bottom portion displays the two-dimensional view. The user touches the view with his/her thumbs and/or fingers in order to interact with and travel through the virtual environment seen in the view.

Method for interacting with virtual environment using stereoscope attached to computing device and modifying view of virtual environment based on user input in order to be displayed on portion of display

Head mounted augmented reality display

Electrically controlled optical system

Growing community of inventors

Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Mark T Bolas