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Glasses-free Displays at CES

by Chris Chinnock

We met with four companies at CES: Vision Engineering, Creal 3D, Dimenco and StreamTV. StreamTV had a very good location right in central hall next to the LG Electronics booth. They were highlighting their …

Tags:3D display| Autostereo 3D| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Light Field Displays

NTT Shows 3D Sand Table

by Chris Chinnock

At Ceatec in Japan, NTT Service Evaluation Laboratories showed a prototype of a 3D Sand Table display; i.e. one in which participants can view a 3D image while walking around it in a tabletop …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Stereo 3D| Vol 25 - Issue 41

Introduction to Display Summit 2018

by Chris Chinnock

Display Summit 2018 was held on Oct. 2-4 at two facilities: Harman International in Northridge, California and at the Pacific Winnetka theaters in Chatsworth, California. A 2-day symposium on the light field ecosystem and …

Light Field Display Update from Display Summit 2018

by Chris Chinnock

In the afternoon session, the focus was more on advanced 3D displays. Jon Karafin from Light Field Labs started the discussion by giving a presentation most of which we have described before. It included …

Tags:Display Summit 2018| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 39

Light Field Capture and Distribution Update From Display Summit 2018

by Chris Chinnock

Yahya Mirza from Aclertic Systems began the conference with a discussion of the computational needs for rendering light field images. His company’s goal is to “better understand what it takes to create content for …

Tags:Display Summit 2018| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 39

Fraunhofer Highlights Codecs, LightFields and Packages

by Bob Raikes

The Fraunhofer had a number of demonstrations of interest. First, we heard about the new JPEG XS ‘mezzanine’ codec designed for contribution applications and optimised for around 6:1 or 8:1 compression. It was developed …

Media Turmoil and the Future of Displays

by Chris Chinnock

There has a been a lot of news lately about the rapidly changing media market. This will have an indirect impact on the future of displays, so I thought I would summarize some of …

Tags:broadband| CableLabs| Light Field Displays| Netflix| Vol 25 - Issue 33

Siggraph 2018 Experience Hall Roundup

by Bob Raikes

The Experience Hall was for start-ups and research projects (like the SID i-Zone) and we found a number of display-related projects at different stages of development. FairLight is a research project from Japan that …

Cable Industry Gearing up for the High Bandwidth Needs of Light Field Displays

by Chris Chinnock

CableLabs, the development group funding by the cable industry, held their summer conference last week in Colorado. A number of topics were discussed, but I want to focus on their views of display use …

The Resolution of Light Field Displays – Inside and Outside the Virtual Reality Room

by Kenneth Li

I wrote a couple of articles last year related to Light Field Displays (LFD) and called them Pixel Ray Displays (PRD). The question was: Are they Waves or Rays? I know that “real” holograms, …

Tags:Light Field Displays| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 30

Is the Red Hydrogen One Phone the Start of Something Bigger?

by Chris Chinnock

Cinema camera maker Red is going into the smartphone business with the Hydrogen One phone that features what they call a 4V light field display made by Leia. Red disrupted the cinema camera market …

Tags:Light Field Displays| Red| Vol 25 - Issue 22

3D Display Round up

by Chris Chinnock

Coretronics was in the i-Zone with a near-to-eye light field display. The idea is to create a multi-focal plane display to avoid conflicts with vergence and accommodation. This approach can also use a microlens …