Daniel Evangelakos

Harvard University | Harvard · Area of Computer Science

We present a system for acquiring, processing, and rendering panoramic light field still photography for display in Virtual Reality (VR). We acquire spherical light field datasets with two novel light field camera rigs designed for portable and efficient light field acquisition. We introduce a novel real-time light field reconstruction algorithm th...

Light Fields let us experience freedom of motion and realistic reflections and translucence like never before in VR. Explore the Gamble House, Mosaic Tile House, and Space Shuttle Discovery. These navigable light field stills showcase the emerging technology Google is using to power its next generation of VR content.

Light fields can provide transportive immersive experiences with a level of realism unsurpassed by any other imaging technology. Within a limited viewing volume, light fields accurately reproduce stereo parallax, motion parallax, reflections, refractions, and volumetric effects for real-world scenes. While light fields have been explored in compute...

Head-mounted virtual reality displays exhibit latency between sensing the users head position and updating the camera transformation for the image on the screen. With current sensors, rendering pipelines, and displays, this latency is on the order of several milliseconds and is believed to contribute to simulator sickness symptoms of disorientation...