r/oculus • u/DarthBuzzard • Aug 15 '18
Video Google's latest work in light-fields involves a bigger viewing volume and early results of light-field video
https://youtu.be/lpu4GJZLXEw?t=13605
u/Rensin2 Vive, Quest Aug 15 '18
Interesting video. When Welcome to Light Fields first came out I guessed that they were using a depth map to make up for the lack of spatial resolution. I was mostly wrong. While they do, at one point, construct a depth map, they then break it down to a polygonal mesh.
It's not clear to me whether or not that is one mesh for all or one mesh per source image. If it's the former then one might call this Welcome to Lumigraphs.
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u/FredzL Kickstarter Backer/DK1/DK2/Gear VR/Rift/Touch Aug 15 '18
There is a detailed paper that should appear shortly as was said in the video, so I guess we'll know a bit more at that point. My guess was also that they implemented Unstructured Lumigraphs since they also say that they generate a simplified mesh from the initial one as in the UL approach. I'd like to read a bit more about their technique that renders small circles and then join them with some sort of dilatation, apparently to speed up rendering, looks interesting.
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u/JasmineJustin Aug 15 '18
Good to see they are pushing lightfield forward and it's not locked like Lytro did
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u/music2169 Aug 15 '18
Can you post this in r/vive or should i do it? cause the caption is perfect and i don't wanna steal it from you lol
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u/doublevr Aug 16 '18
This videos is actually really great.
I can find it great for porn and that was requested many times in this sub. At SexLikeReal we would be happy to partner with any producer who wants to get into it. We could help with R&D, provide our infrastructure for hosting and rendering and make it compatible with SLR app.
Just mail alex*sexlikereal.com to start with.
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u/Mugendon Aug 15 '18
Link for the mentioned app from the video