LightField Forum

2014-06-30

Press Release: Lytro Launches Lytro Photo Adventure for Once-in-a-Lifetime Photography Experience

The following was published by Lytro on 30 June 2014. Lytro Launches Lytro Photo Adventure for Once-in-a-Lifetime Photography Experience Five Photographers to Win All-Expenses-Paid Trip to Iceland For Exclusive Photo Shoot with Acclaimed Adventure...

Lytro Announces New Open File Format and Open-Source WebGL Player, due July 15

Lytro / Software and Tools

2014-06-17

Lytro Announces New Open File Format and Open-Source WebGL Player, due July 15

One of the major points of critique about Lytro’s light field camera(s) is that the only way to share your pictures online is to upload them to ‘s servers first. Now, in an effort...

Lytro

2014-06-11

Press Release: Lytro Unleashes Interactive Power of Living Pictures to the Web with New Lytro WebGL Player

The following was published by Lytro on 11 June 2014. Lytro Unleashes Interactive Power of Living Pictures to the Web with New Lytro WebGL Player 500px to Host First Living Pictures Gallery With WebGL...

Evleaks stirrs up rumours about an upcoming Android-powered Lytro camera. (Screenshot)

Lytro / Rumours

2014-06-11

Meet Lytro’s rumoured “Android-Powered” Light Field Camera: The Lytro Illum

There has been a wave of reports about a rumoured new camera that will be running Android. All of these reports can be traced back to a tweet by @evleaks: Lytro's developing an Android-powered...

Nvidia Near-Eye Light Field Display: Binocular OLED-based prototype (Youtube Screenshot)

Light Field Displays / Technology / Videos

2014-06-06

Nvidia Near-Eye Light Field Display: Background, Design and History [Video]

About a year ago, Nvidia presented a novel head-mounted display that is based on light field technology and offers both depth and refocus capability to the human eye. Their so-called Near-Eye Light Field Display...

Illustration of concept. A light field projector, build using readily-available optics and electronics, emits a 4D light field onto a screen that expands the field of view so that observers on the other side of the screen can enjoy glasses-free 3D entertainment. No mechanically moving parts are used in either the projector or the screen. Additionally, the screen is completely passive, potentially allowing for the system to be scaled to significantly larger dimensions. (picture: MIT Media Lab, Camera Culture Group)

Light Field Displays / Technology / Videos

2014-05-27

MIT: Compressive Light Field Projection System for new Glasses-Free 3D Displays

Today’s glasses-free 3D displays ususally consist of dozens of devices, which makes them not only very complex, but also bulky, energy-consuming and costly. At SIGGRAPH 2014 conference, Gordon Wetzstein and Matthew Hirsch from the...