Baseline SPAAM calibration accuracy and precision in the absence of human postural sway error

We conducted an experiment in an attempt to generate baseline accuracy and precision values for optical see-through (OST) head mounted display (HMD) calibration without the inclusion of human postural sway error. This preliminary work will act as a control condition for future studies into postural error reduction. An experimental apparatus was constructed to allow performance of a SPAAM calibration using 25 alignments taken using one of three distance distribution patterns: static, sequential, and magic square. The accuracy of the calibrations were determined by calculating the extrinsic X, Y, Z translation values from the resulting projection matrix. The standard deviation for each translation component was also calculated. The results show that the magic square distribution resulted in the most accurate parameter estimation and also resulted in the smallest standard deviation for each extrinsic translation component.