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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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The work for this paper is supported in part by MOST under 2015BAK05B03, NSFC under 61471234 and 61527804, Shanghai Pujiang Program under 16PJD029, and the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Digital Media Processing and Transmissions.
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Zang, B., Zhou, J., Xiong, J. (2019). What Is the 3D Comfort Difference Experienced via VR Glasses and 3D-TV. In: Zhai, G., Zhou, J., An, P., Yang, X. (eds) Digital TV and Multimedia Communication. IFTC 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1009. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8138-6_22
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