According to an example embodiment, a near-eye display (NED)
assembly (200a, 200b, 200c, 200d, 200e) for a stereoscopic NED apparatus including a pair of NED assemblies is provided, the NED
assembly comprising: an image projection portion (102) projecting
collimated light that represents a preprocessed image5 (Id); an optical
waveguide (106) comprising an incoupler (106a) arranged to receive the light projected from the image projection portion (102) and an outcoupler (106b) arranged to release the light received via the incoupler (106a); a diffractive optical element, DOE, (208a, 208b, 208c, 208d, 208e) arranged on a10 first side of the optical
waveguide (106) to allow for viewing the light released from the optical
waveguide (106) therethrough, wherein the DOE (208 a, 208b, 208c, 208d, 208e) is arranged to apply a
phase modulation function that results in a phase
delay that varies with a spatial position of an aperture of the DOE (20815 a, 208b, 208c, 208d, 208e); and a preprocessing portion (232) arranged to derive the preprocessed image (Id) based on an input image (I) via application of a preprocessing procedure that is arranged to apply an image-area-
position dependent preprocessing in derivation of different image sub-areas of the20 preprocessed image (Id) to account for the variation in the phase
delay through spatially corresponding sub-areas of the aperture of the DOE (208 a, 208b, 208c, 208d, 208e), wherein said preprocessing procedure and the
phase modulation function are arranged to jointly provide a
virtual image for
perception through25 the DOE (208a, 208b, 208c, 208d, 208e) substantially in focus over a predefined depth range.