Complete immersion field-of-view of up to 240x130deg in a compact VR headset, its architecture and manufacturing technologies

The Field of View (FOV) of VR headsets has not significantly changed since the start of consumer VR adoption 10 years ago. While a FOV covering human vision is desired by most VR consumers and enables many professional applications, limitations of optical technologies have prevented achieving a wide FOV. Having solved optical design and manufacturing challenges, Hypervision has developed compact VR “pancake” lenses providing a headset FOV of 130o vertical and 180o horizontal and edge-to-edge image sharpness (60 PPD optical resolution). A patent pending method of integration of two displays per eye enables increasing the horizontal FOV up to 240o, with invisible seem between the images of different displays. With LightPolymers (under Binational Industrial R&D Israel-USA foundation sponsored project), Hypervision is developing a technology for coating polarization control films directly on optical surfaces. This technology not only eliminates constraints on optical design, but also results in a cost-effective manufacturing process.