Abstract
Recently, Head-Mounted Displays have shown great potential for augmenting vision beyond traditional visual aids, such as compensating for complex visual impairments or providing superhuman vision to the unimpaired eye. Example applications addressed colour vision deficiency or emphasised visual cues for people with low vision. However, Visual Discomfort or Visual Noise and how to address it in vision augmentations are less explored, which is surprising given that acoustic noise control or cancellation is widely applied in modern audio headphones. In my PhD, we explore the area of Visual Noise and Discomfort through a series of studies. Specifically, we explore the general problem of what represents Visual Discomfort and Visual Noise, prototypically explore the first prototypes to receive feedback on the concept of Visual Noise cancellation, including novel prototypes for vision augmentation using LCD light actuators, also review the literature for the current state of vision augmentation.