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Can anyone provide a basic description of how this technology works? It certainly sounds amazing.

It’s 100 year old technology called a lenticular film that’s bonded to a high resolution display.

Making a lenticular film that small is tough but not rocket science. The software is doing most of the magic interlacing the images properly.

My senior year of high-school I made a similar display. I purchased a lenticular screen, coated it, and modified a projector to make a much smaller image than intended. Alignment was tough, but I ended up with about 4" of useful horizontal space with a fairly narrow viewing angle.

There really isn't any magic, it's just a lot of pixels to push. I was able to do a Utah Teapot to 2 views at 400x600 on a 100MHz 486 (it was an 800x600 projector).

It’s not rocket science, it’s laser science.

The 3d input is transformed into a series of 45 views. At any point you're looking at on the screen, you're seeing one of those views with your left eye, and a different view with your right eye. The optics to do this kind of thing have been around for a while in one dimension. They seem to have a much higher resolution display with all these tiles in it, multiplexed, and driven by a custom display processor.

I expect the price to stay high, and this not to become a consumer purchase.

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