Capturing spherical light fields of a real scene

We have developed a spherical light-field capturing system that can generate arbitrary views from a real scene, not a synthetic one. It allows us to render high-quality (XGA) novel views for inside-looking-out observation of a surrounding environment with six degrees of freedom.

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