What Is the 3D Comfort Difference Experienced via VR Glasses and 3D-TV

Nowadays, many people use virtual reality (VR) glasses such as Oculus instead of 3D-TV to watch stereoscopic 3D (S3D) videos. However, few subjective 3D visual comfort assessment works that related to VR glasses were reported. In this paper, we explore the difference of visual comfort experienced while viewing the same S3D videos via VR glasses and 3D-TV. A S3D video database was built including 10 original S3D videos and their corresponding shifted, geometric distorted, and frame desynchronized version of videos for subjective comfort test. Subjective experimental results show that the subjective comfort experienced on 3D-TV is generally higher than on VR for original and shifted S3D videos, but the visual comfort for geometric distorted and frame unsynchronized S3D videos on VR is higher than on 3D-TV.

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