Adding virtual information that is indistinguishable from reality has been a long-awaited goal
in Augmented Reality (AR). While already demonstrated in the 1960s, only recently have …

In recent years, the development of Augmented Reality (AR) frameworks made AR
application development widely accessible to developers without AR expert background …

One of the main goals of many augmented reality applications is to provide a seamless
integration of a real scene with additional virtual data. To fully achieve that goal, such …

In robot‐assisted laparoscopic surgery, the first assistant (FA) is responsible for tasks such
as robot docking, passing necessary materials, manipulating hand‐held instruments, and …

Augmented Reality has traditionally been used to display digital overlays in real
environments. Many AR applications such as remote collaboration, picking tasks, or …

Optical see-through augmented reality (AR) systems are a next-generation computing
platform that offer unprecedented user experiences by seamlessly combining physical and …

The tremendous rise of interest and hype in augmented reality (AR) is justified by its long‐
term potential as the technology with the best chance to supplant smartphones, by becoming …

Complex spatial light modulator (SLM), which can simultaneously control the amplitude and
phase of light waves, is a key technology for wide-range of wave-optic technologies …

Occlusion is a powerful visual cue that is crucial for depth perception and realism in optical
see-through augmented reality (OST-AR). However, existing OST-AR systems additively …

We propose a varifocal occlusion technique for optical see-through head-mounted displays
(OST-HMDs). Occlusion in OST-HMDs is a powerful visual cue that enables depth …