Thursday 20th January 2022

Stereoscopic Displays and Applications SESSION 1 SD&A Keynote Session Session Chair: Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia) Moderator: Bjorn Sommer, Royal College of Art (London)

Mon. 10:00 - 11:05 * New York Timezone

10:00*: Conference Introduction

SD&A Keynote 10:05 New York Timezone   Tasks, traps, and tricks of a minion making 3D magic John R. Benson, Illumination Entertainment (France)   [SD&A-267] [Presentation Only] Abstract:  "Um, this movie is going to be in stereo, like, 3D? Do we have to wear the glasses? How do we do that? How expensive is it going to be? And more importantly, if I buy that tool you wanted, can you finish the movie a week faster? No, ok, then figure it out for yourself. Go on, you can do it. We have faith…" And so it begins. From Coraline to Sing2, with Despicable Me, Minions, Pets, and a few Dr. Suess films, John Benson has designed the look and developed processes for making the stereo films of Illumination Entertainment both cost efficient and beneficial to the final film, whether as 2D or 3D presentations. He will discuss his workflow and design thoughts, as well as the philosophy of how he uses stereo visuals as a story telling device and definitely not a gimmick. Biography: John R. Benson began his professional career in the camera department, shooting motion control and animation for "Pee-wee's Playhouse" in the mid 80s. He's been a visual effect supervisor for commercials in New York and San Francisco, managed the CG commercials division for Industrial Light and Magic, and was compositor for several films, including the Matrix sequels and Peter Jackson's "King Kong". After "Kong", he helped design the motion control systems and stereo pipeline for Laika's "Coraline". Since 2009, he has been working for Illumination Entertainment in Paris, France as the Stereographic Supervisor for the "Despicable Me" series, "Minions", several Dr. Seuss adaptations, the "Secret Life of Pets" series and both "Sing" films. Together, the Illumination projects have grossed over $6.7 billion worldwide.

SD&A Invited Presenter 1 10:45 * New York Timezone Multiple independent viewer stereoscopic projection (Invited) Steve Chapman, Digital Projection Limited (United Kingdom)   [SD&A-268] [Presentation Only] Abstract: It has emerged that one of the major shortcomings of immersive visualization is the problem of isolation. Although the cost and performance of head mounted displays have improved greatly over recent years, they still suffer from fundamental issues: They fail to blend real and virtual environments, potentially resulting in discomfort, disorientation and disassociation from other participants. Combinations of Stereo Projection and Head-Tracking have been used to provide a single observer with a convincing virtual environment that can be real time updated to maintain the correct perspective as the viewer moves within the model. Multi-View technology extends the capability of stereo projection and head-tracking to enable multiple viewers to observe the same model and environment, but each from a perspective appropriate to their changing position. They have the benefit that they can move independently and see one another's movements and articulations. This maintains natural human interactions and collaboration. Multi-View has been achieved by the development of very high frame rate, high resolution projection and fast-switching active glasses. Together, these have enabled time division multiplexed presentation of images to multiple observers. To date we have demonstrated and installed systems where up to and including six independent stereo views are displayed at native 4K resolution, flicker free (at 120fps per viewer) with excellent greyscale, colour and luminance. Biography: Steve Chapman: Studied Physics and Mathematics (BSc hons) at Leeds University (UK) followed by a Master's degree in Applied Optics at the University of Salford. Joined the Rank Organisation in 1994 and was a founder member of the newly formed Digital Projection Limited in 1996. Digital Projection (and previously Rank) were Texas Instruments' founding partner in the development of DLP Projection technology; first moving images were displayed at our site in Manchester, UK. Having been instrumental in the development of multiple generations of projectors as the technology evolved, Steve is now Head of R&D at Digital Projection Limited.

Session Break

Thu. 11:05 - 11:30 * New York Timezone

Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality SESSION 1 View/Narrative/Actions in Virtual Reality Session Chairs: Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University (United States) and Ian McDowall, Intuitive Surgical / Fakespace Labs (United States)

Thu. 11:30 - 12:30 * New York Timezone

11:30 * : Novel view synthesis in embedded virtual reality devices, Laurie Van Bogaert¹, Daniele Bonatto^1,2, Sarah Fachada¹, and Gauthier Lafruit¹; ¹Université Libre de Bruxelles and ²Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) [ERVR-269]

11:50 * : ReCapture: A virtual reality interactive narrative experience concerning photography, perspectives, and self-understanding, Indira Avendano, Stephanie Carnell, and Carolina Cruz-Neira, University of Central Florida (United States) [ERVR-270]

12:10 * : Erasmus XR – Immersive experiences in European academic institutions, Adnan Hadziselimovic, University of Malta (Malta) [ERVR-271]

Session Break

Thu. 12:30 - 13:00 * New York Timezone

SD&A SESSION 2 Stereoscopic Applications I Session Chair: Nicolas Holliman, Kings College London (United Kingdom) Moderator: Gregg Favalora, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (United States)

Thu. 13:00 - 14:20 * New York Timezone

13:00 * : The association of vision measures with simulated air refueling task performance using a stereoscopic display, Eleanor O'Keefe¹, Matthew Ankrom¹, Charles Bullock², Eric Seemiller¹, Marc Winterbottom², Jonelle Knapp², and Steven Hadley²; ¹KBR and ²US Air Force (United States) [SD&A-289]

13:20 * : Towards an immersive virtual studio for innovation design engineering, Bjorn Sommer¹, Ayn Sayuti², Zidong Lin¹, Shefali Bohra¹, Emre Kayganaci¹, Caroline Yan Zheng¹, Chang Hee Lee³, Ashley Hall¹, and Paul Anderson¹; ¹Royal College of Art (United Kingdom), ²Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) (Malaysia), and ³Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Republic of Korea) [SD&A-290]

SD&A Invited Presenter 2 13:40 * New York Timezone Underwater 360 3D cameras: A summary of Hollywood and DoD applications (Invited) Casey Sapp, Blue Ring Imaging (United States)   [SD&A-291] [Presentation Only] Abstract: Since 2015 when Casey Sapp created his first underwater 360 3D camera array his projects have spanned across Hollywood, Natural History, Science, Autonomous Vehicle Navigation, and the DoD. Casey will provide a brief history of underwater 360 camera technology and specifically underwater 360 3D camera technology's increasing adoption in the marketplace. Bio: Casey Sapp is CEO of Blue Ring Imaging. His background is in underwater technology innovation for Hollywood creating many first of its kind systems including the first 360 3D underwater camera system, the first underwater 360 live broadcast (GMA), the first ROV VR piloting system (MBARI), the first 360 cinematic camera on a submarine, and the highest resolution underwater cinematic camera system in the world (MSG Sphere). Blue Ring Imaging has been awarded 3 different SBIRs to expand the ROV VR offering in the Navy and Air Force for teleoperations and artificial intelligence applications.

SD&A Invited Presenter 3 14:00 * New York Timezone Why Simulated Reality will be the driver for the Metaverse and 3D immersive visualization in general (Invited) Maarten Tobias, Dimenco B.V. (the Netherlands)   [SD&A-292] [Presentation Only] Abstract: Easiness of use and access to devices will determine for a large part the way people will be able to experience the Metaverse or immersive content. Using 3D displays, without the need of wearables and that can interact with the end-user in such a way that they feel part of the experience, will provide exactly that experience. If such 3D display technology is relatively low cost, can be easily integrated in existing devices and leverage on known 3D formats and XR standardization, like OpenXR it will drive the adaptation of immersive content in general. Especially the large tech companies that are pushing this immersive experience will drive the push for accessible and cost effective display solutions. Whereas their focus is often on head mounted devices the market agrees that the majority of devices is – and will remain – devices as we know them today, such as laptops, mobile phones and monitors. Therefore an important specification to facilitate this transition to immersive devices is that they can be used as normal devices. Switchable display technology is therefore a must to facilitate this transition and offer a easy accessible immersive experience. Biography: Maarten holds a Master in Strategic Management at Tilburg University and has been in different commercial and strategic roles at Philips before founding Dimenco in 2010. Maarten introduced the concept of SR in 2017 and is since then working closely with the technical and commercial team to implement this vision. Maarten is further since 2019 part of the Supervisory board of Morphotonics and advises several start-ups on strategic challenges.

Session Break

Thu. 14:40 - 18:00 * New York Timezone

Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality SESSION 2 Simulation, Embodiment, and Active Shooters in VR Session Chairs: Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University (United States) and Ian McDowall, Intuitive Surgical / Fakespace Labs (United States)

Thu. 18:00 - 19:00 * New York Timezone

18:00 * : VirtualForce: Simulating writing on a 2D-surface in virtual reality, Ziyang Zhang and Jurgen P. Schulze, University of California, San Diego (United States) [ERVR-297]

18:20 * : A systematic review of embodied information behavior in shared, co-present extended reality experiences, Kathryn Hays¹, Ruth West¹, Christopher Lueg², Arturo Barrera¹, Lydia Ogbadu Oladapo¹, Olumuyiwa Oyedare¹, Julia Payne¹, Mohotarema Rashid¹, Jennifer Stanley¹, and Lisa Stocker¹; ¹University of North Texas and ²University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States) [ERVR-298]

18:40 * : Immersive virtual reality training module for active shooter events, Sharad Sharma and Sri Teja Bodempudi, Bowie State University (United States) [ERVR-299]

Session Break

Thu. 17:00 - 19:15 * New York Timezone

SD&A SESSION 3 Stereoscopic Applications II Session Chair: Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia) Moderator: Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan)

Thu. 19:15 - 20:15 * New York Timezone

19:15 * : Evaluation and estimation of discomfort during continuous work with mixed reality systems by deep learning, Yoshihiro Banchi, Kento Tsuchiya, Masato Hirose, Ryu Takahashi, Riku Yamashita, and Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan) [SD&A-309]

19:35 * : 360° see-through full-parallax light-field display using Holographic Optical Elements, Reiji Nakashima and Tomohiro Yendo, Nagaoka University of Technology (Japan) [SD&A-310]

19:55 * : An aerial floating naked-eye 3D display using crossed mirror arrays, Yoshihiro Sato, Yuto Osada, and Yue Bao, Tokyo City University (Japan) [SD&A-311]