Otoy introduces Holographic video / holographic light field rendering

linvanchene

Holographic video, or holographic light field rendering as it’s technically known, produces stunningly realistic images that can be looked at from any vantage point, as seen in a demonstration OTOY released today.

Each frame of video accurately simulates every ray of light in a given scene or environment and every interaction that each light ray has with the surfaces and materials therein. Every reflection, refraction, and absorption of that field of light is modelled as it would be in the real world.

The same caliber of incredibly accurate rendering is used in the special effects work of major motion pictures, typically taking hours if not days to render out one extremely polished and realistic frame for use in a movie.

OTOY demonstrated the same massive computational complexity delivered in hundredths of a second on the screen of one of the least powerful devices we use daily: a smartphone. The result is a video with true-to-life image quality that can be navigated and explored from any angle, otherwise known as holographic video.

Source:

http://render.otoy.com/newsblog/?p=547

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OTOY Holographic Video Demonstration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H0NMsp1lX0

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More exceiting news is presented at Siggraph 2014:

http://s2014.siggraph.org/

RawArt

That is very cool!

Rawn