High-resolution light-field projector

Light-field projector for projecting an image, the light-field projector comprising:

• an image source comprising a light-source including a plurality of pixel components generating a plurality of modulated light beams and an imaging optical element configured to project an image of the light source to a light-source image plane and to collimate said plurality of modulated light beams;
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• projection optics comprising a first projection element configured to project the modulated light beams to define an eye-box and to form projector pixel images for each pixel component of said plurality of pixel components at a projector image plane between the first projection element and the eye-box, the modulated light beams generated from the different pixels components of said plurality of pixel components intersecting at a projector virtual pixel image between the first projection element and the eye-box;
• wherein the imaging optical element is further configured to shift the projector image plane from a position where the projector image plane differs from the projector virtual pixel image to a shifted plane, between the first projection element and the eye-box, where the projector pixel image coincides with the projector virtual pixel image.