For 3D displays to be successful, they must be bright enough to compete with 2D displays and not diminish display resolution. To date, stacked-LCD displays have employed parallax barriers, which use pinhole or stripe patterns to provide view-dependent imagery. We show a prototype that adapts the imagery on both layers to multi-view 3D content, increasing brightness while maintaining display resolution. This promises a future of devices with sharp 2D screens and 3D displays with full horizontal and vertical parallax.
For 3D displays to be successful, they must be bright enough to compete with 2D displays and not diminish display resolution. To date, stacked-LCD displays have employed parallax barriers, which use pinhole or stripe patterns to provide view-dependent imagery. We show a prototype that adapts the imagery on both layers to multi-view 3D content, increasing brightness while maintaining display resolution. This promises a future of devices with sharp 2D screens and 3D displays with full horizontal and vertical parallax.