Extended reality

XR displays & optics

Screens and lenses that create the immersive image.

Terms

3 terms

  • Foveated rendering

    Foveated rendering draws full detail only where the eye looks and lowers detail in peripheral vision, cutting the GPU load of XR headsets substantially.

  • Fresnel lens

    A Fresnel lens in XR headsets is a thin, lightweight lens made of concentric ridges that magnifies the display, at the cost of glare known as…

  • Pancake lens

    A pancake lens is a folded optical design in XR headsets that bounces light between polarizing layers to shorten the distance from display to eye.