Posted on 10/08/2021 12:35:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
A team of engineers at Silicon Valley startup Light Field Lab is debuting its new high-resolution holographic display, SolidLight. In its announcement, officials with the company claim that it is "the highest-resolution holographic display platform ever designed." The company has also invited members of the media to view the new platform in person.
For many years, researchers around the world have been working toward building a true holographic display—one that appears to those who view it as realistic. With the introduction of SolidLight, that goal appears very close to being achieved. Members of the press who have seen it in person describe it as "a true hologram," or "the first of its kind."
The high-resolution holographic display is unique in its design as well. It was made by enclosing what the company calls a High Performance and Proprietary Field Programmable Gate Array, electronics and Wall and Display controllers behind a photonics array along with a nanoparticle polymer fused surface energy relay—in a box of sorts. The front of it is covered with a complex phase-guide modulation surface. A finished display is made by placing sub-modules together to create a larger display, each with 16 x 10k pixels. This configuration is capable of generating holograms made of 2.5 billion pixels with a density of 10 billion pixels per meter. Holograms were created by emitting light into the space in front of the display at millions of angles, allowing viewers to see displayed objects in all dimensions, which is what makes the holograms appear to be three dimensional to the human brain.
On their announcement page, Light Field Lab notes that there is no head tracking and no latency with SolidLight; thus, there is no motion sickness. They also note that they are currently taking orders for their new platform and that customers are free to use their platform in any way they choose—they suspect initial users will use their platform to create holographic, life-sized video walls.
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More information: www.lightfieldlab.com/press-release-oct-2021
www.lightfieldlab.com/#SolidLight
Red Dwarf was great comedy.
Maybe Automan too?
Won’t go mainstream until the porn industry gets a hold of it.
yes it bloody was
Biden is a glitchy hologram.
I made a diorama in grade school out of a shoebox and construction paper.
It was Napoleon’s retreat from Russia.
I think I got a C.
Teacher never liked me.
” a density of 10 billion pixels per meter”
That’s 1/10 of a nanometer per pixel. It would take roughly 250 of them to span the width of a DNA strand.
I wonder how they’re constructed. Maybe they’re “virtual” pixels.
Bad arithmetic. Should have said 25 of them. Still tiny, though.
Endless variations there.
This is not a true hologram but they are using the term for marketing purposes.
It is auto-stereoscopic 3D apparently using a field programmable gate array in order to accommodate the high bandwidth needed to display the required number of pixels.
Auto-stereoscopic 3d is OLD tech. It has been understood using lenticular arrays of lenses for more than a century. But it has not been practically possible because of the required pixel density necessary to show an image from many vantage points.
For example, let’s suppose we needed 4k resolution to be viewed from four-thousand vantage points. (Ideally, each vantage point would be about the width of a human pupil but could be as a large as the interocular distance. In a row of seats at a theater, this could easily be in excess of several thousand.) You would need 3840 x 2160 pixels (standard 4k) for EACH vantage point. So, four-thousand vantage points equals the pixels of 4000 4k displays!
And that ONLY gives you horizontal parallax. To be able to see an 3d image from multiple vertical vantage points, you will need to multiply times this number. Thus, creating a fully auto-stereoscopic image of 4k quality could easily require a device and/or method of moving the equivalent visual data of a few million 4k displays simultaneously.
This is the REAL challenge of glasses-free 3d. We are heading there, but I’m not convinced the tech has arrived yet. When it does, we will have entered the simulacron, and we may have trouble separating fact from fiction.
good luck getting a video card that will push so many pixels.
I cannot even get on that will power enough to get decent framerates in 4k 2d. (unless I want to pay double msrp)
we are not getting into simulacron tech until we can get giant 3d printers with an extremely good refresh rate.
but already it is hard to tell fact from fiction
As long as no one disables the safety protocols, everything should be fine.
One of the funniest episodes of RD. My wife and I couldn’t breathe when we saw the little dancing Rimmers.
Meltdown is probably mine.
The one with the wax droids.
Sounds like we are one step closer to Arnold Rimmer being a reality. Next step then is ‘Ace’ Rimmer, his hard-light counterpart that can touch things. And just when you’ve seen every insane thing Democrats can throw at you comes the ultimate bizarro world event. I saw an article on that, “YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP! White, Trans Writer and Producer of Netflix Show ‘Dear White People’ QUITS Over Netflix Black Comedian Dave Chapelle’s ‘Gender is a fact’ Comment”, and you can give that a look at 100percentfedup. I’m sure in Moore’s mind it made sense to do that, but it just proved that in addition to being a DNA denier HE is also a racist. So smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast.
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