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Near-Eye Light Field Displays

Douglas Lanman · 88.9K views · 2013-07-16 · 5:24

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Overview

A SIGGRAPH 2013 demo from Douglas Lanman and NVIDIA of near-eye light field displays, which allow much thinner head-mounted displays that still show accurate focus and depth cues.

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HN cites it in Magic Leap and VR threads as a clear overview of how light fields could solve focus and bulk problems.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2014–2018

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jonah · 2014-10 · Recommendation

Here's the video associated with the Nvidia paper on Near-Eye Light Field Displays linked elsewhere in the comments. [VIDEO] It gives a very clear overview of the concept and prototypes.

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VikingCoder · 2014-10 · Recommendation

Watch this video at the 4 minute mark: [VIDEO] It explains what they're talking about. Your eyes can focus on different parts of the view - it's not just an infinite depth-of-field display like we're used to. It's like the display version of a Lytro camera.

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kbenson · 2018-02 · Reference

I'm still waiting for more info on Near Eye Light Field devices.[1][2] Actually, it appears there's more on this now[3][4], but the video's audio is a weird translation of some paper or something. 1: [LINK] 2: [VIDEO] 3: [LINK] 4: [LINK]

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