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The interesting thing is that if the lenticular lens is done with mini spheres instead of mini-cylinders, it should be possible to create a more fully holographic effect, given a sufficiently high-res base display. Basically a light-field camera in reverse.

(I am sure they have thought of this by now ...)



Fovi3D (http://www.fovi3d.com/) makes this kind of light-field display based on microlenses.

One challenge here is the tradeoff between spatial and angular resolution. If you're generating a 4x4 lightfield starting with a 2160x1440 display, you only end up with 640x360 superpixels.

The company I work for (https://www.leiainc.com/) makes a display that can switch between light field and 2D, so you can have the best of both worlds.




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