Life-like visual experience through light field technology (LIVE)

光场（LF）技术是数字媒体领域的最新创新，被视为我们的眼睛和光学设备接收光线方式的“升级”，有可能彻底改变我们观看和传送现实生活和虚拟视频内容的方式。然而，尽管一些LF相机已经商业化，但光场捕获技术仍处于开发阶段，而光场体积的存储、带宽和处理要求过高。显示光场内容可能是这项突破性技术中最令人兴奋的部分，但显示技术也必须进步，显然在这一点上是一项正在进行的工作。**我们的目标是通过为整个管道开发解决方案来缩小光场理论与实际实施之间的差距，以实现这个新市场。我们将开发一套全面的新方法来有效地捕获、处理和显示光场内容，以便在任何网络和各种LF显示器上观看，从大屏幕到移动设备和耳机。我们工作的每个阶段都将由心理物理评估和用户体验质量评估指导，包括目前可用的所有类型的捕获和显示设备，并将由我们的行业合作伙伴指导和评估，以确保其商业可行性。将提供与增强现实内容的无缝集成。**随着光场为电影，真人镜头和视觉效果开辟了新的创意途径，我们的开发将提供新的市场机会，包括LF 2D和沉浸式LF应用。**由此产生的视觉质量飞跃将极大地增加所观看内容的影响，对教育和培训、娱乐、社交网络、广告和相关行业产生深远影响。采用这项技术的加拿大教育机构、制造业、娱乐和通信公司将获得比竞争对手更大的优势

Light field (LF) technology is the latest emerging innovation in digital media, seeing as an "upgrade" to the way our eyes and optical devices take in light, with the potential to revolutionize the way we view and deliver real-life and virtual video content. However, despite the fact that some LF cameras are commercially available, light field capturing technology is still under development, while storage, bandwidth and processing requirements for light field volumes are excessive. Displaying light field content may be the most exciting part of this breakthrough technology, but display technologies must also advance, clearly at this point being a work in progress.**Our goal is to close the gap between theory and practical implementation of light field by developing solutions for the entire pipeline to enable this new market. We will develop a comprehensive suite of new methods to efficiently capture, process, and display light field content, for viewing over any network and on a range of LF displays, from large screens to mobile devices and headsets. Each stage of our work will be steered by psychophysical assessments and user quality of experience evaluations involving all types of capturing and displaying devices currently available and will be guided and assessed by our industry partner to ensure its commercial viability. Provision will be made for seamless integration with augmented reality content.**As light field opens up new creative avenues for movies, live action footage and visual effects, our developments will offer new market opportunities including LF 2D and immersive LF applications.**The resulting leap in visual quality will dramatically increase the impact of content being viewed, with profound implications for education and training, entertainment, social networking, advertising, and related sectors. Canadian educational institutions, manufacturing, entertainment, and communications companies adopting this technology will gain a significant advantage over their competitors.**