Autostereo displays provide 3D perception without the need for special glasses or other head gear. Three basic technologies exist to make autostereo displays: spatial multiplex, multi-projector and time-sequential. These can be used to make two types of useful device: two-view, head-tracked displays; and multi-view displays. The former tend to be single-viewer systems while the latter can support multiple viewers. The latter tend to require more processing power because they have more views than the former.
Research in the Computer Laboratory and Department of Engineering at Cambridge has produced a time-sequential, multi-view display. This is currently being commercialised by a Cambridge company: ASD Systems Ltd [the CEO of ASD Systems is Stewart Lang, a visiting professor at Glasgow].
In the talk I will give a brief background to autostereo displays, go on to describe the operation of the basic "Cambridge Display", and then discuss how ASD Systems have combined the basic display with multi-projector technology to produce a commercially viable system. I will conclude with some discussion of future research directions in display technology, image rendering, and image compression.
For more information contact: nad@cl.cam.ac.uk