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Light Fields are a subtle but critical element to making 3D video look “real”, and it has little to do with either resolution or field of view. Meta (formerly Facebook) …read more Continue reading Weird Lens Allows Light Field Passthrough for VR Headset
Back in 2012, technology websites were abuzz with news of the Lytro: a camera that was going to revolutionize photography thanks to its innovative light field technology. An array of …read more Continue reading Unlocking Hidden Features of an Unusual Camera
Baseball jokes aside, holograms have been a dream for decades, and with devices finally around that support something like them, we have finally started to wonder how to make content …read more Continue reading Stop-Motion Angels In The Light Field
In photography, depth of field refers to how much of a three-dimensional space the camera can focus on at once. A shallow depth of field, for example, would keep the subject sharp but blur out much of the foreground and background. Now, researchers at … Continue reading Record-breaking camera keeps everything between 3 cm and 1.7 km in focus
3D video content has a significant limitation, one that is not trivial to solve. Video captured by a camera — even one with high resolution and a very wide field of view — still records a scene as a flat plane, from a fixed point of view. The limitation this …read more
Continue reading Light Fields: Missing Ingredient for Immersive 3D Video Gets Improved
We are all familiar with the idea of a hologram, either from the monochromatic laser holographic images you’ll find on your bank card or from fictional depictions such as Princes Leia’s distress message from Star Wars. And we’ve probably read about how the laser holograms work with a split beam of coherent light recombined to fall upon a photographic plate. They require no special glasses or headsets and possess both stereoscopic and spatial 3D rendering, in that you can view both the 3D Princess Leia and your bank’s logo or whatever is on your card as 3D objects from …read more
Continue reading Supercon: Alex Hornstein’s Adventures In Hacking The Lightfield
Light Field technology is a fascinating area of Virtual Reality research that emulates the way that light behaves to make a virtual scene look more realistic. By emulating light coming from multiple angles entering the eye, the scenes look more realistic because they look closer to reality. It is rumored to be part of the technology included in the forthcoming Magic Leap headset, but it looks like Google is trying to steal some of their thunder. The VR research arm of the search giant has released a VR app called Welcome to Light Fields that uses a similar technique on …read more
Continue reading Google Light Fields Trying to Get the Jump on Magic Leap
Yesterday Magic Leap announced that it will ship developer edition hardware in 2018. The company is best known for raising a lot of money. That’s only partially a joke, since the teased hardware has remained very mysterious and never been revealed, yet they have managed to raise nearly $2 billion through four rounds of funding (three of them raising more than $500 million each).
The announcement launched Magic Leap One — subtitled the Creator Edition — with a mailing list sign up for “designers, developers and creatives”. The gist is that the first round of hardware will be offered for …read more
Continue reading Magic Leap Finally Announced; Remains Mysterious
Lytro continues its push into the professional video world with its first cinema camera, and it could revolutionize filmmaking entirely. The post Lytro’s Pro Movie Camera Lets Filmmakers Refocus After Shooting appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Lytro’s Pro Movie Camera Lets Filmmakers Refocus After Shooting