Binocular Rivalry in Helmet-Mounted Display Applications

Abstract

A research program was conducted to determine the relationships between helmet-mounted display (HMD) design parameters and binocular rivalry. A screening study which investigated 12 parameters was then conducted to determine which parameters affected binocular rivalry with HMDs. A parametric study was next conducted to establish functional relationships between HMD parameters and binocular rivalry for the parameters identified in the screening study to have a major impact on binocular rivalry. The final laboratory study was a validation study which compared selected HMD system configurations in realistic HMD and non-HMD tasks for binocular rivalry effects. The image quality analysis evaluated the effects of ambient illumination, display luminance, combiner transparency, and angular display subtense on HMD video image quality using modulation transfer function analysis techniques.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA013838

Entities

People

  • D. F. Guerin
  • M. L. Hershberger

Organizations

  • Hughes Aircraft Company

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Display Systems
  • Dynamic Range
  • Experimental Design
  • Factorial Design
  • Helmet Mounted Displays
  • Information Retrieval
  • Laboratory Equipment
  • Motor Skills
  • Optics
  • Photographic Materials
  • Psychology
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Target Recognition
  • Task Performance And Analysis

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).