Light Field Lab Ship Date for SolidLight Displays

The Silicon Valley startup company, Light Field Lab, is now accepting advanced orders for its holographic display platform, dubbed SolidLight, as it starts building them for shipment next year.

The development of light field displays goes back to the early 1900s and the work of Gabriel Lippman’s ‘integral photography’. In contrast to regular photography, which focuses light from a scene onto a light sensitive medium, light field displays imagine the waves emanating from a scene to be a field of light that can be described by the intensity of light at each position within the field and the direction that each light ray is travelling.

Unlike a hologram, that records the amplitude and phase relation of the wave fronts reflected (or in some cases emitted) from an object, light fields are best thought of as a vector function of the amount of light flowing in every direction through every point in space.