A near-eye display comprising: a multibeam diffraction grating-based display configured to provide a plurality of different views of an image; and an optical system configured to relay the plurality of different views of the image to a corresponding plurality of different locations within an eye box at an output of the near-eye display, the corresponding plurality of different locations within the eye box being configured to impart focus depth cues to a user of the near-eye display, wherein the plurality of different views has a total angular extent and the optical system has an input aperture, the total angular extent being configured to substantially correspond to a size of the input aperture, wherein the multibeam diffraction grating-based display comprises: a plate light guide configured to guide a collimated light beam at a non-zero propagation angle; an array of multibeam diffraction gratings at a surface of the plate light guide, a multibeam diffraction grating of the array being configured to diffractively couple out a portion of the guided collimated light beam as a plurality of coupled-out light beams having different principal angular directions that correspond to view directions of the plurality of different views of the image; a light source configured provide the collimated light beam to plate light guide light; and a light valve array adjacent to the plate light guide surface, the light valve array being configured to selectively modulate the coupled-out light beams as a plurality of pixels corresponding to of the plurality of different views of the image. a multibeam diffraction grating-based display configured to provide a plurality of different views of an image; and an optical system configured to relay the plurality of different views of the image to a corresponding plurality of different locations within an eye box at an output of the near-eye display, the corresponding plurality of different locations within the eye box being configured to impart focus depth cues to a user of the near-eye display, wherein the plurality of different views has a total angular extent and the optical system has an input aperture, the total angular extent being configured to substantially correspond to a size of the input aperture, wherein the multibeam diffraction grating-based display comprises: a plate light guide configured to guide a collimated light beam at a non-zero propagation angle; an array of multibeam diffraction gratings at a surface of the plate light guide, a multibeam diffraction grating of the array being configured to diffractively couple out a portion of the guided collimated light beam as a plurality of coupled-out light beams having different principal angular directions that correspond to view directions of the plurality of different views of the image; a light source configured provide the collimated light beam to plate light guide light; and a light valve array adjacent to the plate light guide surface, the light valve array being configured to selectively modulate the coupled-out light beams as a plurality of pixels corresponding to of the plurality of different views of the image. a plate light guide configured to guide a collimated light beam at a non-zero propagation angle; an array of multibeam diffraction gratings at a surface of the plate light guide, a multibeam diffraction grating of the array being configured to diffractively couple out a portion of the guided collimated light beam as a plurality of coupled-out light beams having different principal angular directions that correspond to view directions of the plurality of different views of the image; a light source configured provide the collimated light beam to plate light guide light; and a light valve array adjacent to the plate light guide surface, the light valve array being configured to selectively modulate the coupled-out light beams as a plurality of pixels corresponding to of the plurality of different views of the image. <EOS>