Fun. I hope they are successful. One of the things that my daughter pointed out about 3D movies is that because they are 3D your brain thinks it should be able to shift the focus but it can't and that 'fight' gets in the way of enjoying the content. My understanding is that light field optics don't have this issue.
Hmmmm, just some brainstorming here:<p>You should be able to convert your smartphone's HD display into a low-resolution light field display by attaching a special lens array. It's like the lenticular 3D displays (they refract two rows of pixels in two different directions to create a stereo image), just omnidirectional.<p>I'm not sure how complex the manufacturing and calibration is but in theory we could create an attachable lens array for smartphones and use it to display a low-res light field, couldn't we?
This is a horrible misuse of the term "light-field" for a display.<p>An actual light-field display would have, for every pixel, maybe 16 sub-pixels, each only visible from a certain vantage point. They represent the rays that travel through each point in space.<p>This is something that could bring true glass-less 3-D, and would be an ideal VR holographic display if they could make a 16K display that could fit in a headset. You wouldn't even need lenses to focus - just stick the display right up to your face.
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