This video shows a user testing the Dynallax prototype system. This video was a portion of the Ph.D. dissertation of the lead researcher, Tom Peterka.

Abstract:

Parallax barrier strip autostereoscopic virtual reality displays such as Varrier ™ have been constructed by placing a barrier of lines in front of an LCD display device. Together with a head tracking system and associated software to interleave portions of left and right eye images in appropriate positions on the display, an autostereo effect is achieved that can be quite compelling.

In the past, the barrier was a static component. While easy to construct, a static barrier imposes certain limitations on the system.

Substituting a dynamic parallax barrier for the static barrier frees the system from such limitations. By dynamically controlling the parallax barrier in real time, more than two eye channels can be produced, to accommodate two viewers and provide each viewer with an independent pair of stereo perspectives.

A prototype system called "Dynallax" exemplifies the qualities of a dynamic parallax barrier for autostereoscopic applications. This is a small single-panel prototype based on a stacked dual-LCD display, although it is scalable to larger displays.