Wide Field of View Compressive Light Field Display using Tracked Viewers | JSID 2015

A single-person wide field of view light field display. Head tracking is employed to dynamically steer a smaller, instantaneous viewing zone around the viewer, such that they perceive a much larger field of view.

ABSTRACT

We discuss a simple extension to existing compressive multilayer light field displays that greatly extends their field of view and depth of field. Rather than optimizing these displays to create a moderately narrow field of view at the center of the display, we constrain optimization to create narrow view cones that are directed to the viewer’s eyes, allowing the available display bandwidth to be utilized more efficiently. These narrow view cones follow the viewer, creating a wide apparent field of view. Imagery is also recalculated for the viewer’s exact position, creating a greater depth of field. The view cones can be scaled to match the positional error and latency of the tracking system. Using more efficient optimization and commodity tracking hardware and software, we demonstrate a real-time, glasses-free 3D display that offers a 110×45 degree field of view.

FILES

  • SID Display Week Digest 2014 technical paper (pdf)
  • Journal of the Society for Information Display 2015 technical paper (coming soon)

CITATION

A. Maimone, R. Chen, H. Fuchs, R. Raskar, G. Wetzstein. “Wide Field of View Compressive Light Field Display using a Multilayer Architecture and Tracked Viewers”, Journal of the Society for Information Display, 2015

BibTeX

@article{Maimone:2015:TrackedDisplay,
author = {A. Maimone and R. Chen and H. Fuchs and R. Raskar and G. Wetzstein},
title = {{Wide Field of View Compressive Light Field Display using a Multilayer Architecture and Tracked Viewers}},
journal = {Journal of the Society for Information Display},
year = {2015},
}