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CReal Demoes AR with its Light Fields

by Bob Raikes

What They Say CReal has published another ‘through the display’ example of its headset light field technology in an AR headset. The video highlights the way that the focus at different depths is ‘natural’ …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Light Field Displays| R&D (Research & Development)

Google Previews Breakthrough Project Starline

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has released a video and blog post that combines very high resolution video conferencing combined with a light field display system that creates life-sized images of participants with a true …

Tags:Google| Light Field Displays| VideoConferencing

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CReal showed off its light-field display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Real released a video that showed its latest ‘light field’ VR display optics system that shows how different objects at various distances can be rendered in focus at the centre of …

Tags:Cameras| Light Field Displays| Virtual Reality

Insight Media Launches Light Field / Holographic Webinar Series

by Artem Alekseenko

“There’s a major shift underway of a magnitude similar to the shift from photographs to film or radio to television, and that’s the shift from flat media to holographic light field media, Said Shawn …

Tags:Dimenco| Holography| Insight Media| Light Field Displays

A Different Kind of Light Field Camera

by Chris Chinnock

Wooptix is a Spanish start-up company with a funny name, but a very interesting product They are developing a light field camera that does not use a microlens or an array of cameras Instead, …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Light Field Cameras| Light Field Displays

Light Field Streaming Milestone Reached

by Chris Chinnock

Cable operator Charter Communications and host of partners used the recent SCTE*ISBE Cable-Tec Expo to showcase a light field capture-transmission-display demonstration. This is the first time such an end-to-end demonstration has been attempted and …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Light Field Displays| Networks| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

NHK Developing an Autostereoscopic 3D TV System

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Hayato Watanabe within the Science and Technology Research Laboratories at NHK (Tokyo, Japan) is developing a novel lightfield based 3D TV system. The display is reported as producing …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Japan| Light Field Displays| NHK

Streaming Video to Light Field Displays

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Dr. C. E. Thomas, Founder and CTO of Third Dimension Technologies (TDT) recently gave a SMPTE webinar for members titled “Streaming Model for Field of Light Displays.” Field of Light Displays (FoLD) are what …

Tags:Light Field Displays| Streaming Video

Preliminary Agenda Released for the 2019 Light Field and Holographic Display Summit

by Artem Alekseenko

This two-day event will focus on the latest developments in the light field and holographic ecosystem – from capture to display. The preliminary agenda can be viewed at: http://www.displaysummit.com/2019-light-field-and-holographic-display-summit/. Hosted at CableLabs, the R&D …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Light Field Displays

Digital Humans are Closer Than You Think

by Chris Chinnock

Well, they are closer than I thought anyway. In talking to possible presenters for the upcoming Light Field and Holographic Display Summit, I was speaking with Digital Domain’s John Canning, who pointed me to …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Light Field Displays| Visual Computing

IDEA Group Formed for Advanced Display Distribution Standards

by Chris Chinnock

A press conference at the 2019 NAB Show was used to launch the Immersive Digital Experiences Alliance (IDEA). Its mission is to create a suite of royalty-free specifications that address all immersive media formats, …

Tags:3D software| Augmented Reality| Distribution| Holographic Displays| Light Field Displays| Virtual Reality