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Felix Lauber, Andreas Butz
View Management for Driver Assistance in an HMD
In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Adelaide, Australia, October 2013, 1-6. (bib)

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) have the potential to overcome some of the technological limitations of currently existing automotive head-up displays (HUDs), such as the limited field of view and the restrictive boundaries of the windshield. However, in a formative study, we identified other, partially known problems with HMDs regarding content stability and occlusion. As a counter-measure we propose a novel layout mechanism for HMD visualization, which, on the one hand, benefits from the unique characteristics of HMDs and, on the other, combines the advantages of head-stabilized and cockpit-stabilized content. By subdividing the HMDs field of view into different slots to which the content is dynamically assigned depending on the users head rotation, we ensure that the drivers vision is effectively augmented in every possible direction.