REVIEW article
Front. Virtual Real.
Sec. Virtual Reality in Medicine
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frvir.2025.1575870
This article is part of the Research TopicEnabling the Medical Extended Reality ecosystem - Advancements in Technology, Applications and Regulatory ScienceView all 7 articles
Visual Performance Standards for Virtual and Augmented Reality
Provisionally accepted
- Luminex Technologies, Boulder, United States
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Extended reality devices are enabling new approaches and procedures in the medical field. However, many in the medical community are unfamiliar with these technologies and how to evaluate them for a given application. This article presents an overview of the available international visual performance standards for virtual and augmented reality devices to better inform users and developers on the critical metrics and methods commonly used to assess the devices. These standards provide guidance to minimize collisions and falls during casual use, reduce visual discomfort and fatigue during extended use in areas such as pain management, training, and surgery, and increase efficiency and outcomes through improved image quality and readability of visual information. The article is intended to assist users with identifying which visual performance parameters may be critical for their application and directs the user to the relevant standards where the detailed evaluation methods can be obtained.
Keywords: virtual reality, augmented reality, Optical measurement, Standards, Visual fatigue, Visual performance
Received: 13 Feb 2025; Accepted: 17 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 PENCZEK. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: JOHN PENCZEK, Luminex Technologies, Boulder, United States
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