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Red Announces a Smartphone with a Holographic Display

by Norbert Hildebrand

When a camera maker announces a smartphone, not many people listen. However, when Red the high end camera maker announces a smartphone with holographic display the interest is, of course, a little higher. Unfortunately, …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Red| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Provision Wins Drug Mart Deal for 3D Displays

by Bob Raikes

Provision Interactive Technologies of the USA said that it has done a deal to put its 3D Savings Center kiosks inside Discount Drug Mart stores around Ohio. The chain has 73 stores. As well …

Tags:3D display| Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Retail| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Super Thin Holograms are Under Development

by Arthur Berman

Modulating the phase of light is part of the means by which holograms are able to create an image. It follows that, to generate a sufficient phase shift, a hologram needs to have a …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 24

Summary of Holographic Papers

by Chris Chinnock

Session 54 was called “Holographic” and was a catchall for some related papers. In the first paper, Kai-Han Chang from Kent State University talked about a novel way to reduce speckle in laser illumination. …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Microsoft Researching Better AR Displays

by Arthur Berman

Paraphrasing a recent publication by a team of researchers at Microsoft Research: the lightweight optics typically found in the current generation of virtual, augmented and mixed reality near-eye displays cannot be scaled to provide …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays| Microsoft| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Microsoft Research Publishes Results on a Phase Only Holographic Projection System

by Norbert Hildebrand

Siggraph 2017 is shaping up to be a very interesting conference for holographic display enthusiasts. Just a little while ago Facebook / Oculus announced their work on a head mounted display system to overcome …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Laser| Microsoft| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Aska3D is not ‘Just Pepper’s Ghost’

by Bob Raikes

We were walking past the booth of Aska 3D and saw what looked like a typical ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ display, which are often described as ‘holographic’, but are not. We then realised that the image …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Large Display Monitor| Retail Digital Signage Expo 2017| Virtual Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Holotronica Confirms European Distribution Deal with Gerriets

by Isaac Oburu

Holotronica, owner of Holo-Gauze, the world-renowned 3D display solution for large hologram effects, has announced Gerriets GmbH as its exclusive European Sales Partner. The German company will distribute Holo-Gauze in the UK, Europe and …

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Tabletop 360º Display Can be Viewed Glasses-free

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers headed by Yongjun Lim at the 5G Giga Communication Research Laboratory within the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) is developing a novel tabletop holographic display. The system …

Tags:Holographic Displays| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 24 - Issue 19| Volumetric Displays

Light Field Lab, Inc. Launches to Bring Holographic Experiences to Consumers

by Isaac Oburu

Light Field Lab, Inc. officially debuts today, co-founded by CEO Jon Karafin, CTO Brendan Bevensee, and VP of Engineering Ed Ibe. The co-founders previously worked together to design the world’s first professional light field …

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Alibaba Invests in WayRay

by Norbert Hildebrand

WayRay, a Swiss based developer of HUD systems (with offices in San Francisco and Moscow), announced that Alibaba and other investors have invested US$18 million into the company during the Series B financing round. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Head Up Displays HUDs| Holographic Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Real View – The Longing for the true Hologram

by Norbert Hildebrand

Since the first attempts at creating head mounted displays and at least since Star Wars, the hologram has been the holy grail of the display technology. Today, the term is more and more deteriorating …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Holography| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 04