Abstract: A near-eye display assembly presented herein includes an electronic display, an optical assembly, and scanning assembly. The electronic display has a first resolution. The optical assembly controls a field of view at an eye box and directs a plurality of light rays emitting from the electronic display toward the eye box. The scanning assembly shifts a direction of at least one of the light rays in accordance with emission instructions such that a virtual display is presented to the eye box, the virtual display having a second resolution greater than the first resolution. The display assembly can be implemented as a component of a head-mounted display of an artificial reality system.

Abstract: Functional optical equipment such as lenses, prisms, optical flats, and color filters are made from hard candy, resulting in working optics that can be treated as either experimental equipment or confectionaries. These hard candy optics are manufactured by an extremely precise casting process, which avoids the need to polish or reshape the candy after casting and allows for the production of a wider selection of optical equipment. This process also allows the inclusion of features that expand the applications of the hard candy optics, but are not themselves optically functional.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a first emission region, a second emission region, and a third emission region. The first emission region is surrounded by the second emission region and the second emission region is surrounded by the third emission region. The display panel includes a plurality of light emitters arranged in the first emission region, the second emission region, and the third emission region, respective light emitters of the plurality of light emitters configured to emit light. The first emission region has a first density of light emitters, the second emission region has a second density of light emitters that is less than the first density and the third emission region has a third density of light emitters that is less than the second density.

Abstract: A display device may include (1) a light-emitting layer having a plurality of light-emitting regions, with at least some of the light-emitting regions operable to emit a varying, controlled intensity of light at a fixed location, (2) a color selector layer disposed over the plurality of light-emitting regions, the color selector layer having at least one group of color selectors, and (3) an actuator operable to move the color selector layer relative to the light-emitting layer. The movement of the color selector layer may result in each color selector of the at least one group of color selectors passing each fixed location. Various other apparatus, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes an electronic display having a pixel array configured to display a sequence of subframes, and an image shifting electro-optic device that is operable to shift at least a portion of an image of the display pixel array synchronously with displaying the sequence of subframes, so as to form a sequence of offset subframe images for providing an enhanced image resolution and pixel correction in a compound image. The image shifting electro-optic device may include a polarization switch in series with a polarization grating, for shifting image pixels between offset image positions in coordination with displaying consecutive subframes.

Abstract: The apparatus may include a display device that includes an integral display which receives bit-depth assignment data and configures, based on the bit-depth assignment data, the integral display to display image data at differing bit depths within various display regions of the integral display. This may cause the display device to consume a lower proportion of image data to drive display regions of the integral display that are configured to display image data at lower bit depths and maintain higher image quality within display regions of the integral display that are configured to display image data at higher bit depths. The apparatus may also reconfigure the integral display in response to receiving updated bit-depth assignment data. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: Functional optical equipment such as lenses, prisms, optical flats, and color filters are made from hard candy, resulting in working optics that can be treated as either experimental equipment or confectionaries. These hard candy optics are manufactured by an extremely precise casting process, which avoids the need to polish or reshape the candy after casting and allows for the production of a wider selection of optical equipment. This process also allows the inclusion of features that expand the applications of the hard candy optics, but are not themselves optically functional.