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Near-Eye Light Field Displays
A SIGGRAPH 2013 demo from Douglas Lanman and NVIDIA of near-eye light field displays, which allow much thinner head-mounted displays that still show accurate focus and depth cues.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it in Magic Leap and VR threads as a clear overview of how light fields could solve focus and bulk problems.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Douglas Lanman
- Topic
- near-eye light field displays
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2018
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Here's the video associated with the Nvidia paper on Near-Eye Light Field Displays linked elsewhere in the comments. [VIDEO] It gives a very clear overview of the concept and prototypes.
jonah on Hacker News · 2014-10
In Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality TechWatch this video at the 4 minute mark: [VIDEO] It explains what they're talking about. Your eyes can focus on different parts of the view - it's not just an infinite depth-of-field display like we're used to. It's like the display version of a Lytro …
VikingCoder on Hacker News · 2014-10
In Google May Lead $500M Round in Magic Leap Virtual Reality Tech
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