Why People Should Care About Light‐Field Displays

Abstract

Light‐field displays have a wide range of potential applications, including 3‐D television and projection systems, technologies for vision assessment and correction, and small form factors with support for focus cues in head‐mounted displays.

Light‐Field Imaging and Display Systems

“…) ket applications and broader consumer segments such as entertainment, gaming, and education within the next 5 years. 24,27 Since the quality of user experience will be of paramount importance in the successful and widespread adoption of these systems, lightfield displays are likely to play a major role. For this reason, the next article in this issue, written by Hong Hua, is focused on recent advances in light-field displays for VR and AR HMDs.…”

“…Three major types of group/multi‐user displays include scanning, multi‐projector, and multi‐layer. The first two are discussed in detail in Liu's overview paper, 23 and the third is discussed in articles such as one by Wetzstein 24 published in 2015.…”

“…This reduction allows for practical architectures such as a multi‐focal‐plane 21 and dual‐stack compressive 16 to be used for AR and VR, respectively. Such displays used for augmented or virtual reality can provide many types of compelling user experiences and are likely to see adoption in vertical market applications and broader consumer segments such as entertainment, gaming, and education within the next 5 years 24 , 27 . Since the quality of user experience will be of paramount importance in the successful and widespread adoption of these systems, light‐field displays are likely to play a major role.…”

Development of a scalable tabletop display using projection-based light field technology

“…Major researchers and developers were involved in the development of basic 3D displays to resolve vergence-accommodation conflict [1] and to realize multiviews and full parallax. Among these 3D displays, light-field technologies that employ plenoptic functions or four-dimensional functions have recently attracted interest [2][3][4][5]. The light field can be described as a set of rays that pass through every point in space.…”