Design, Assembly, Calibration, and Measurement of an Augmented Reality Haploscope
It provides a systematic description of AR haploscope methods for researchers in vision science and AR, but it is incremental as it builds on long-existing stereoscope technology.
The paper presents an augmented reality haploscope for measuring perceptual properties of stereoscopic vision, detailing its design, assembly, calibration, and measurement methods developed over 10 years.
A haploscope is an optical system which produces a carefully controlled virtual image. Since the development of Wheatstone's original stereoscope in 1838, haploscopes have been used to measure perceptual properties of human stereoscopic vision. This paper presents an augmented reality (AR) haploscope, which allows the viewing of virtual objects superimposed against the real world. Our lab has used generations of this device to make a careful series of perceptual measurements of AR phenomena, which have been described in publications over the previous 8 years. This paper systematically describes the design, assembly, calibration, and measurement of our AR haploscope. These methods have been developed and improved in our lab over the past 10 years. Despite the fact that 180 years have elapsed since the original report of Wheatstone's stereoscope, we have not previously found a paper that describes these kinds of details.