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Yes I built a prototype. You can order lenticular sheets online. I have an iPad Pro but the distance between the LCD to the screen surface is too great to use normal lenicular sheets. A 4k small laptop screen would likely be enough for clean binocular separation however I only had a 1080p 10inch display. While this is difficult at the hobby level this already seems to be widely commercially available http://www.alioscopy.com/en/3Ddisplays.php

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Interesting how they're marketing it: as a glasses-free 3D display instead of a holographic (lightfield or w/e) display. That's probably due to the chosen field of view and resolution tradeoff, where you can see only a narrow field of view and angular variation is small (so there are less artifacts, better image quality/"resolution") -- it's a quasi-binocular range field.

However, this seems like a poor strategy: most people already know 3D (binocular) displays and there's not much demand for it, I bet few people would be willing to pay significantly more for lower quality just to get rid of glasses (for those who even crave binocular content). Compare to the potential of having wide viewing angle holograms (even if a little fuzzy) in your living room.

Unrelated: Your blog posts are awesome and you should submit more often to HN ;)

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