Display system and method for providing variable accommodation cues using multiple intra-pupil parallax views formed by light emitter arrays

A method for displaying virtual image content using a head-mounted display system, the method performed by one or more processors of the display system, the method comprising:

• determining light emitters of each of an array of groups of light emitters to activate based upon a level of parallax disparity associated with images formed by the light emitters, the array of groups of light emitters included in a micro-display of the display system;
• activating a first light emitter of the groups of light emitters to form a first parallactically-disparate intra-pupil image;
• activating a second light emitter of the groups of light emitters to form a second parallactically-disparate intra-pupil image;
• and
• displaying a virtual object to appear to be on a depth plane by injecting image light including the first and second parallactically-disparate intra-pupil images of the object into a same eye of a viewer,
• wherein the first and second parallactically-disparate intra-pupil images provide different views of the virtual object for a same eye of a user of the display system, and
• wherein activating the first light emitter of the groups of light emitters overlaps in time with activating the second light emitter of the groups of light emitters, to inject the first and second parallactically-disparate intra-pupil images into the same eye of the user within a flicker fusion threshold that is 1/60 of a second.