Foreword to the Second Edition

IN MY FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS EXCELLENT BOOK (see below), I wrote “If there is a better text on this topic, I have yet to see it.” Well, here it is – Hainich and Bimber took the best book and made it even better! For details on just how they made it better, see the section “The Second Edition” starting on page xxxii. Here I’ll just highlight two areas that are particularly important: multi-viewer auto stereoscopic displays and near-eye displays. In the five years since the first edition of this book, these two areas have developed rapidly.

Generations of researchers (and users!) have dreamt of multi-viewer auto stereoscopic displays. In the past five years, new designs have been presented that may ...

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