Augmenting the Field of View of Head Mounted Displays with Sparse Peripheral Displays

We explore the concept of a sparse peripheral display, which augments the fieldofview of a headmounted display with a lightweight, lowresolution, inexpensively produced array of LEDs surrounding the central highresolution display. We show that sparse peripheral displays expand the available fieldofview up to 190º horizontal, nearly filling the human fieldofview. We prototyped two proofofconcept implementations of sparse peripheral displays: a virtual reality headset, dubbed SparseLightVR, and an