GPU-Addressable Monocular Depth: A 1000x Finer Play With Light
- Every depth is not created equal, you might be familiar with stereoscopic 3D in IMAX or headsets where each eye sees slightly shifted images to trigger stereopsis essentially tricking your brain to think what it is seeing is 3D. This is a great way to downsample (93 mrad at 70 cm distance) the true light field that represents the world around us, but since its very coarse it jumps over monocular depth cues (which are discerned in as small as 104 μrad steps) this creates accommodation vergence mismatch leading to fatigue accumulation and that hazy imagery you may have experienced in stereo 3D where your eye can't maintain focus. While monocular depth alone does not provide stereoscopic 3D cues in Extend, it always matches the vergence of the eyes, making it much easier on the eyes during prolonged usage and without compromising image quality.


