Editing Lightfield display

A '''light field display''' is an electronic visual display that can show natural 3D visuals to the viewer. It can either be a head-mounted display or a traditional world-fixed display, like a computer monitor. It displays a [[light field]], which is light that a person can focus on naturally at a range of distances in the image.

It is largely the same as a [[multifocal display]].

Light field displays can be made to be near the eye or fixed in the world: Either a [[near eye lightfield display]] or a world-fixed lightfield display.

The light reaches the viewer from multiple angles at a single viewpoint.

The light in a light field display must be pointed at many different angles. It can use a [[lens array]] to point the light in specific directions, or it can use a [[directional backlight]] or display that naturally emits directional rays of light.

Lens-array based light field prototypes were created by [[Doug Lanman]].

A basic display can be made by stacking two [[lenticular sheet]]s perpendicularly.

It can be connected to a computer to display dynamic light field imagery and UI.
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==Sequential==

A [[sequential light field display]] is a display that generates groups of rays at various focus distances one after another, and displays to the eye in rapid succession.

Sequential light field displays have been developed by [[Andrew Maimone]] and [[CREAL]].

==Microlens-based==
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A light field display can be made by putting a [[microlens array]] in front of a traditional flat display.<ref name="w353">{{cite web | title= | url=https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2013-11_Near-Eye-Light-Field/NVIDIA-NELD.pdf | access-date=2024-07-09}}</ref> This can be done by taking a laptop computer and putting a microlens sheet in front of it.

A world-fixed microlens or perpendicular lenticular sheet based display requires on the order of thousands to millions of different viewpoints if not using [[head tracking]] and [[view selection]] based on where the head is.

==Manufacturing==
A light field display must be lit. For example using high brightness LEDs. The LEDs can be a broad backlight, or they can be the individual pixels or subpixels themselves.

Instead of using high-PPI displays, it is possible to use [[fiber optic image conduit]]s to transport light from a physically larger and high resolution display in a flexible way to a head-mounted apparatus, where microlensing can take place for light field generation.

==References==
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[[Category:Types of displays]]
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