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A glasses-free 3D display uses AI to direct images straight to the viewer’s eyes

For decades, creating a large, glasses-free 3D display that looks like a real window has been a challenge because screens broadcast image information wastefully. Artificial intelligence has now been used to focus light only on the viewer’s eyes, delivering a seamless 3D experience using a low-cost display the size of a standard computer monitor.

This is a summary of: Ma, W. et al. Glasses-free 3D display with ultrawide viewing range using deep learning. Nature 648, 76–83 (2025).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03828-5

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