2023 Theme: Virtual Reality and Augmented Vision

Virtual Reality and Augmented Vision provides a gateway to learning about unique and long-standing optical and computational challenges for displays. Today’s devices are only at the beginning of a long journey; numerous future optical innovations could help us reach perceptually realistic images with devices that ultimately appear to be ordinary eyeglasses.

Learn about the newest VR/AV technologies, lessons learned in building practical systems and what specific applications appear to be the most promising.

Theme Coordinators

Kaan Akşit, University College London, UK
Douglas Lanman, Reality Labs Research, Meta, USA

Visionary Speaker

Jannick Rolland, Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering, Professor of Optics and Biomedical Engineering, Professor in the Center for Visual Science, Director, NSF/IUCRC: Center for Freeform Optics, Director, R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering, University of Rochester, USA
Talk Title: Shaping the Future of Augmented and Virtual Reality

Monday, 09 October
08:00 – 10:00 Room 315	Your Next Wearable Spatial Computing Platform Kripa Patel, Avegant, USA Compact, Efficient Light Engines for AR Wearables Stan Larroque, Lynx, Netherlands Lynx-r R1: Mixed Reality Standalone Headset Sehyun Park, LetinAR, Republic of Korea KeplAR: All-around Augmented Reality Smart Glasses Darran Milne, Vividq, UK Computer-Generated Holography Algorithms
10:45 – 11:30	FiO Visionary Session I Jannick Rolland, University of Rochester, USA Talk Title: Shaping the Future of Augmented and Virtual Reality
11:45 – 12:45 Room 315	Simulating the Next Sanjay Gangadhara, ANSYS, USA End-to-End Simulation in the Design of Advanced AR / VR Headsets Congli Wang, University of California, Berkeley, USA Differentiable Ray Tracing for Optical Design and Modeling
14:00 – 16:00 Room 315	Future's Wearable Displays Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Computational Imaging and Displays Ryoichi Horisaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan Computational Imaging with Randomness Kaan Akşit, University College London, UK Headsetless Holographic Virtual Reality Displays Yuchen Ma, Tsinghua University, China AR Cameras
16:30 – 18:30 Room 315	Emerging Meta Optics for AR/VR Tian Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Programmable Metasurface Ting Xu, Nanjing University, China Plasmonic Metasurfaces Arka Majumdar, University of Washington, USA Compact Multi-Functional Imaging Systems Using Meta-Optics
Tuesday, 10 October
08:00 – 09:00 Room 315	Art and Perception Linda Law, HoloCenter, USA Art and Holography - An Unfolding Digital Future Evolving from an Optical Past Hakan Urey, Koc Universitesi, Turkey Holography, AR/VR and Eye Health
15:30 – 17:00 Room 315	Design for Humans Alexandre Chapiro, Meta Tech - Reality Labs Research, USA Visible Difference Predictors: A Class of Metrics Based on Perception Science Josef Spjut, NVIDIA Corp., USA Constant Field of View Display Size Effects on First-Person Aiming Time Qi Sun, New York University, USA Color-Perception-Guided Display Power Reduction for Virtual Reality

2023 Theme: Virtual Reality and Augmented Vision

Theme Coordinators

Visionary Speaker