Prototyping a Light Field Display Involving Direct Observation of a Video Projector Array

Abstract

We present a concept for a full-parallax light field display achieved by having users look directly into an array of video projectors. Each projector acts as one angularly-varying pixel, so the display's spatial resolution depends on the number of video projectors and the angular resolution depends on the pixel resolution of any one video projector. We prototype a horizontal-parallax-only arrangement by mechanically moving a single pico-projector to an array of positions, and use long-exposure photography to simulate video of a horizontal array. With this setup, we determine the minimal projector density required to produce a continuous image, and describe practical ways to achieve such density and to realize the resulting system. We finally show that if today's pico-projectors become sufficiently inexpensive, immersive full-parallax displays with arbitrarily high spatial and angular resolution will become possible.

Cite

Text

Jurik et al. "Prototyping a Light Field Display Involving Direct Observation of a Video Projector Array." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2011. doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2011.5981693

Markdown

[Jurik et al. "Prototyping a Light Field Display Involving Direct Observation of a Video Projector Array." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2011.](https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2011/jurik2011cvprw-prototyping/) doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2011.5981693

BibTeX

@inproceedings{jurik2011cvprw-prototyping,
  title     = {{Prototyping a Light Field Display Involving Direct Observation of a Video Projector Array}},
  author    = {Jurik, Joel and Jones, Andrew and Bolas, Mark T. and Debevec, Paul E.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops},
  year      = {2011},
  pages     = {15-20},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPRW.2011.5981693},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2011/jurik2011cvprw-prototyping/}
}