Facebook Technologies, LLC

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Oculus, Vr, LLC

Michael Sean Mounier

Douglas Robert Lanman

Robert Dale Cavin

Alexander Jobe Fix

Ryan Michael Ebert

William Aaron Nicholls

Lu Lu

Fenglin Peng

Wai Sze Tiffany Lam

Kevin James MacKenzie

Michael Alan Dougherty

David Scott McCoy

A display apparatus includes a pixelated display, an eye tracking system, and a segmented resolution enhancing device coupled to the eye tracking system and operable to selectively enhance effective image resolution for the electronic display in the gaze direction. The segmented resolution enhancing device may include a polarization switch in series with a polarization gratings, at least one of which is segmented, for shifting image pixels in the gaze direction between offset positions while displaying a frame.

Display with gaze-adaptive resolution enhancement

A virtual reality headset displays a three-dimensional (3D) virtual scene and includes a varifocal element to dynamically adjust a focal length of an optics block included in the virtual reality headset based on a location in the virtual scene where the user is looking. The headset tracks a user's eyes to approximate gaze lines and determines a plane of focus for a frame of the virtual scene as the intersection of the gaze lines. The varifocal element adjusts the focal length of the optics block so the optics block is focused at the plane of focus, which keeps the user's eyes in a zone of comfort as vergence and accommodation change. Based on the plane of focus, the virtual reality headset may provide depth cues, such as depth of field blur, to planes in the virtual scene deeper in the user's field of view than the plane of focus.

Focus adjustment method for a virtual reality headset

Focus adjusting virtual reality headset

A graphics rendering system and method is disclosed, in which color values for certain pixels appearing on the screen may be adjusted to create a blurring effect. A pixel-by-pixel comparison may be used to compare differences in depth, as noted in a depth buffer, and if pixel depths are sufficiently close, the pixel's color may be softened to take into account color values of neighboring pixels.

System for softening images in screen space

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Michael Sean Mounier