Light Field Technology

What is Light Field Technology?

Light Field Technology captures the direction and intensity of light rays from multiple angles, enabling post-capture adjustments to focus, perspective, and depth in immersive content while allowing users greater freedom of movement compared to traditional capture methods.

Why use Light Field Technology?

Light Field Technology bridges the gap between pre-rendered content and real-time 3D, offering unprecedented levels of realism while maintaining the authenticity of captured footage. As this technology matures, it creates new possibilities for interactive storytelling, virtual production, and mixed reality applications across entertainment, training, and visualization sectors.

How does Light Field Technology work?

This advanced computational imaging approach uses specialized hardware featuring microlens arrays (typically containing hundreds of thousands of tiny lenses) to capture light from multiple angles simultaneously, creating a rich dataset that contains considerably more information than traditional photography or videography.

The resulting content can be manipulated after capture to adjust aperture, focus, and perspective; even allowing viewers to change their viewpoint within the captured scene. For developers working with immersive content, light field technology represents a significant advancement over traditional 360° video by enabling six degrees of freedom (6DoF) movement and natural depth perception within recorded environments.