Nowadays, augmented reality (AR) systems and virtual reality (VR) systems still suffer from two main problems related to human eyes. One is vergence accommodation conflict (VAC) and the other is vision corrections. To resolve those problems, we could use dynamic lenses to provide extra lens powers for changing the image plane of AR or VR systems and correcting vision. In this research, we used polarization-switching-type liquid crystal lenses as a varifocal lens and combined three liquid crystal lenses as a liquid crystal lens set. With applying different voltage, liquid crystal lens set exhibits four operating modes. Four operating modes present three electrically tunable lens powers: 0, -0.79 diopters, -2 diopters, and -3.06 diopters by means of passively anisotropic polymeric layers as well as active manipulation of polarization of incident light (<50 ms). Furthermore, we demonstrated the practical application of the LC lens set in AR and VR systems, effectively presenting its ability to perform varifocal image. This solves both the problems of VAC and vision correction in AR and VR systems. By adjusting the LC lens set, it could display even 7 switching modes and the lens power ranges from 0 to -4.5 D.
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