Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that are capable of executing an application on a head-mounted device (HMD) having a first image sensor in a first image sensor configuration. In some implementations, the application is configured for execution on a device including a second image sensor in a second image sensor configuration different than the first image sensor configuration. In some implementations, a request is received from the executing application for image data from the second image sensor. Responsive to the request at the HMD, a pose of a virtual image sensor is determined, image data is generated based on the pose of the virtual image sensor, and the generated image data is provided to the executing application.

A display device includes: a display panel that includes, in a front surface, a display area in which an image is displayed, and projects, from the display area, light that has entered from a back surface as display light showing the image; a thermal conductive sheet that is disposed contacting the display panel, and has an opening positionally corresponding with the display area; and a light transmissive material that sandwiches the thermal conductive sheet together with the display panel.

Head-mountable devices can be supplemented with accessory devices that provide a variety of different components and functions to achieve the results that are desired by a user. The exchangeable configurations allow a user to easily customize a head-mountable device with one or more accessory devices to provide features that integrate with other operations of the head-mountable device. The accessory devices can be easily exchanged with each other to provide different components and functions at different times. Accordingly, a head-mountable device need not include permanent components that provide every function that will later be desired by the user. Instead, the head-mountable device can have expanded and customizable capabilities by the use of one or more accessory devices.

In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.

An optical apparatus has an electroluminescent display energizable to emit image-bearing light along an optical axis. A reflective polarizer reflects light of a first polarization state and transmit light of a second polarization state orthogonal to the first polarization state. A quarter wave plate in the path of transmitted light of the second polarization state imparts retardance to conveyed light. A curved, partially reflective surface transmits incident light. An exit lens directs light from the curved, partially reflective surface to an exit pupil, with an eye relief of less than the focal length of an eye, wherein the optical apparatus forms an image with a field of view exceeding 40 degrees horizontally and 20 degrees vertically. The optical apparatus is configured for seating directly against the face of the viewer, to form the image peripheral to a primary field of view.

A light guide module according to an embodiment comprises a first light guide and a second light guide, wherein the first light guide includes a first pattern region that reacts with first light having a first wavelength and third light having a third wavelength, the second light guide includes a second pattern region that reacts with second light having a second wavelength and the third light having the third wavelength, the first pattern region includes multiple first patterns, the second pattern region includes multiple second patterns different from the first patterns, and each of the first patterns is thickest in a central region including the center thereof and is symmetrical with respect to a first direction passing through the center.

A three-dimensional display device includes a display panel, a barrier panel, and a controller that controls the display panel and the barrier panel. The controller defines multiple first image areas and multiple second image areas in the display panel, causes the first image areas to be at first intervals in a first direction, causes displaying of a first image viewable by a first eye of a user in the first image areas and a second image viewable by a second eye of the user in the second image areas, defines, in the barrier panel, multiple first transmissive areas transmissive to the image light at a first transmissivity and multiple second transmissive areas transmissive to the image light at a second transmissivity, causes the first transmissive areas to be at second intervals in the first direction, and performs an irregular process at third intervals in the first direction.

Provided are an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to reduce a storage capacity necessary for an omnidirectional image. Of a plurality of images generated by perspectively projecting an omnidirectional image mapped to a 3D model onto a plurality of two-dimensional planes, an image corresponding to a viewing direction of a user and an omnidirectional image reduced in resolution are accepted, and a drawing block generates a display image on the basis of at least one of the accepted image and the accepted omnidirectional image reduced in resolution. A viewing direction acquisition block acquires viewing direction information related with the viewing direction of the user, and a sending block sends a viewing direction log recorded on the basis of the acquired viewing direction information.

A VR headset and a method for controlling a VR headset are provided. The VR headset comprises a wakeup/sleep control circuit, at least one pressure sensor and at least one distance sensor, the pressure sensor and the distance sensor each being electrically connected with the wakeup/sleep control circuit, wherein the pressure sensor is provided at an upper frame and/or a lower frame of the VR headset, and the distance sensor is provided at an inner side of the VR headset, the inner side of the VR headset referring to a side of the VR headset that is adjacent to a face of a user wearing the VR headset. The VR headset provides a hardware basis for an automatic wakeup/sleep control of the VR headset.

Methods and apparatus include providing a head-mounted display to be worn by the user and presenting a video to the user through the head-mounted display; measuring outside world information; detecting whether or not the outside world information contains any notification information to be notified to the user, including detection of at least one reference position, which is set by the user as notification information; and notifying the user when notification information is detected.