In-simulator assessment of trade-offs arising from mixture of color cuing and monocular, binoptic, and stereopsis cuing information

Research done to assess the tradeoffs arising from the mixture of color cueing and monocular, binocular, and stereopsis cueing information in peripheral monitoring displays encountered in helmet-mounted display (HMD) systems is discussed. The accompanying effect of stereopsis cueing in the foveal display of tracking information was assessed. A description of the simulator as well as experimental results are provided. The results of this experiment indicate that binoptic display of monitoring information in the right-peripheral region, with color cueing as an alerting function, to such information, and stereopsis cueing in the central region of the display, were the most effective display conditions examined. To obtain the advantages, of binocular summation with binoptic displays in the peripheral region, a sacrifice in total field of view (FOV) is required. The performance gains realized from binoptic or stereopsis cueing over monocular display in the periphery require a loss of total FOV that may not be justified for all applications