Human Bond Communication with Head-Mounted Displays: Scope, Challenges, Solutions, and Applications

Abstract

In this article, we introduce a human bond communication (HBC) method, based on head-mounted displays (HMDs), which enables continuous bidirectional communication among multiple users with or without Internet connections. The disadvantages of the existing technologies limit the scope of this study to provide a communication platform for HMD-based HBC. However, the features of the optical camera communication (OCC) technology will enrich the possibilities of HBC. This leads us to introduce a visual communication approach for virtual applications. To deploy OCC in HMDs for HBC, the camera of an HMD can be used as a receiver, while a near-infrared light source must be added to the HMD as a transmitter. We also discuss some potential future applications, suggest effective architectures, and briefly describe the scope, challenges, and solutions of OCC-based HMDs for HBC.