47.4: Invited Paper: 3D Displays using Scanning Laser Projection

Scanning laser projection technology is enabling advances in a number of areas of 3D display development. We discuss various scanned laser display technologies developed in our laboratory: 1) Our 1 mm × 9 mm projector uses a vibrating singlemode optical fiber to produce scanned images, and enables compact 3D head-mounted displays with the potential form factor of a pair of eyeglasses. 2) Arrays of scanning fiber projectors can enable massively-multi-view autostereoscopic displays with full head motion parallax and partial accommodation cues, and 3) Our 3D volumetric displays triaxially scan light beams to render a volume, placing different pixels at different optical viewing distances to enable accurate accommodation and vergence cues.

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