HoloPathTracer: Fast and Accurate Wave Path Tracing for Holography (opens in new tab)

Holography offers unique advantages for delivering perceptual realism while preserving compact form factors in VR/AR. Its perceptual quality, however, hinges on encoding rich wavefronts of photorealistic scenes into interference patterns and then incoherently multiplexing the resulting wave fields for perception. Existing CGH paradigms decouple radiance estimation from wave propagation by pre-rendering radiance on discretized scene sectors. This...