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Display Week iZone Highlights

by Steve Sechrist

This was a record breaking year for the iZone at the annual Society for Information Display Display Week. Launched just seven years ago, the innovation Zone or iZone has grown to almost 50 booths …

TS03 The Future of Cinema is Holographic

by Chris Chinnock

John Karafin from Light Field Labs gave a similar presentation to these we have seen and reported on previously. It highlighted some examples of three classes of displays: volumetric; holographic and fauxlographic (display architectures …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Technology Summit on Cinema 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 15

Google To Buy Lytro

by Bob Raikes

Google is buying light field pioneer company, Lytro for a deal that is reported to be somewhere between $25 million and $40 million although one report claims that Google is getting only the assets …

Light Field Displays are Coming

by Chris Chinnock

If you haven’t been following activities in Light Field displays, here’s a quick update – there is a lot of activity in this area with products likely to be commercialized in 2018. Investments are …

Tags:Light Field Displays| Vol 25 - Issue 04| Volumetric Displays

Limitless Team Joins Up with Lytro

by Andrew Fenn

VR company, Limitless, has announced that its team will join image capture start-up, Lytro. Lytro specialises in light-field image capture. The two teams will collaborate on a solution for combining light-field and real-time rendering …

Tags:AR/VR| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Light Field Lab Raises $7 Million in Seed Funding

by Andrew Fenn

Light Field Lab has raised $7 million in seed funding for its holographic display technology. Khosla Ventures, Sherpa Capital and R7 Partners have made investments in the technology, which is designed to show holographic …

Tags:Investment| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 04

The HoloPlayer One Lets Users Interact with “3D Holograms”

by Arthur Berman

A startup called Looking Glass Factory (Brooklyn, NY) has debuted a display device called the HoloPlayer One. The device has been widely reported in the popular press as a “hologram viewing device.” Let me …

Tags:Gesture Recognition| Light Field Displays| Novel Displays| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Lytro Looks to VR for New Technology Applications

by Bob Raikes

Lytro has pivoted in its business and has been moving away from its static photography business (Lytro to Shift to Video and Virtual Reality) and has now shut down support for pictures.lytro.com where images …

Tags:AR/VR| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 48

DS01 Summary of the Advanced Displays Session at Display Summit 2017

by Chris Chinnock

The morning of the first day of Display Summit 2017 was devoted to describing advanced displays. Thomas Burnett from FoVI 3D started out by describing its light field display system based upon integral imaging …

FoVI3D Installs Metrology System for Field of Light Displays

by Bob Raikes

FoVI3D has installed a light-field display metrology system at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The equipment is intended for the test, validation, and performance evaluation of a new FoLD display. The FoVI3D delivered Field of …

Fraunhofer Moves Light Field to Video & Works on Codecs

by Bob Raikes

The Fraunhofers had its usual booth in Hall 8, with lots of stations showing different technologies. Most of them were looking at audio developments as the Institute is very strong there, with MPEG-H being …

Red’s Hydrogen One Phone uses Lightfield Display From Leia Inc.

by Norbert Hildebrand

Some time ago we reported on a smartphone to be released by Red, the camera company. The surprising fact about this announcement was that the Android phone would feature a “holographic” display. Now Red …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Light Field Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 34