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Augmented reality (AR) technology has been widely applied across a variety of fields, with head-up displays (HUDs) being one of its prominent uses, offering immersive three-dimensional (3D) experiences and interaction with digital content and the real world. AR-HUDs face challenges such as limited field of view (FOV), small eye-box, bulky form factor, and absence of accommodation cue, often compromising trade-offs between these factors. Recently, optical waveguide based on pupil replication process has attracted increasing attention as an optical element for its compact form factor and exit-pupil expansion. Despite these advantages, current waveguide displays struggle to integrate visual information with real scenes because they do not produce accommodation-capable virtual content. In this paper, we introduce a lensless accommodation-capable holographic system based on a waveguide. Our system aims to expand the eye-box at the optimal viewing distance that provides the maximum FOV. We devised a formalized CGH algorithm based on bold assumption and two constraints and successfully performed numerical observation simulation. In optical experiments, accommodation-capable images with a maximum horizontal FOV of 7.0 degrees were successfully observed within an expanded eye-box of 9.18 mm at an optimal observation distance of 112 mm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tabletop autostereoscopic displays have the advantage of displaying realistic three-dimensional (3D) content. In particular, the Integral imaging (InIm) method is superior in tabletop displays, as it is possible to make the system small using microlens arrays (MLA). Off-the-shelf MLAs have a small field of view (FOV) and are unsuitable for tabletop displays where the half viewing angle is typically around 45 degrees. The MLA for tabletop display also needs to have uniform angular resolution and low crosstalk to display 3D content. In this paper, we designed a new MLA with a multilayer structure and a reversed lens shape. This lens array has a wide viewing angle of −58 degrees to +58 degrees, with uniform angular resolution and low crosstalk of less than 0.2. We implemented a tabletop display using our MLA and verified its properties experimentally. The misallocation error of the elemental image is experimentally measured and compensated for as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]