Optics – Display Daily

VR: Panamorph’s Exit Pupil Modulation Claims Image Quality Improvements and Reduced Costs

by Chris Chinnock

The fact is that the spray of light coming out of today’s VR headsets toward the user’s face when using a backlit LCD or emissive display is over ten times the size of the exit pupil needed for the eye to see the full virtual image

Luminate NY Opens Applications for Seventh Cohort of Optics, Photonics, and Imaging Startups

by Shawnee Blackwood

Up to $2 million in funding available for startups accepted into the program.

Tags:Imaging| Optics| Photonics

Hot News – Metasurfaces Can Create Pixels

by Bob Raikes

The concepts and manufacturing techniques that have enabled Moore’s Law can be applied to optics

Leaky-Wave Metasurfaces Achieve World Record in Optical Control, Bridging Free-Space and Integrated Systems

by Omid Rahmat

A groundbreaking class of integrated nanophotonic devices demonstrates unprecedented control over all four optical degrees of freedom, enabling conversion of confined waveguide light into customizable free-space patterns.

Tags:Holographic Displays| Metasurfaces| Optics| research

Single-Shot Spectral and Polarization Imaging with a Transversely Dispersive Multi-Foci Metalens: Potential Applications in Display Manufacturing

by Omid Rahmat

A spectral and polarization multi-foci metalens (SPMM) is a newer technology that combines a metalens with a geometric phase element to capture both spectral and polarization information of light simultaneously.

Tags:Manufacturing| Optics

Lark Optics Pokes Light Into Your Eyes Enabling You to See Things That Aren’t There

by Jon Peddie

Lark Optics is a Cambridge-based startup that has developed a way to address the issue of AR sickness. The company has created AR glasses that project images directly onto the user’s retina, eliminating the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Lark Optics| Optics| Retina

Avicena Demonstrating Hottest MicroLED Optical Link

by Artem Alekseenko

Avicena is demonstrating the world’s highest temperature optical link operating at up to 235°C using its LightBundle communication architecture and technology at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2023 in San Diego, CA. The Avicena …

Tags:Avicena| MicroLED| Optics

LG Display to launch large OLED panels with micro lens tech in 2024

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that LGD plans to use large OLEDs using microlens technology in 2024. The report said that the firm has solved an issue with mura by using an adhesive …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| OLEDs| Optics

Varjo Modifies XR-3 to add ‘Retooled’ option

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Varjo has a new version of its XR-3 which boosts the clarity of the headset’s passthrough cameras when viewing objects between 30cm and 90cm (1′ to 3′) away. This makes the …

Tags:Cameras| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Printing Highly Reflective Mirrors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to Alfred Poor, publisher of Health Tech Insider for pointing me to an article about the use of ink-jet printing to create Bragg mirrors. The technology has been developed …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

Links Week Ending 9th September 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. There are a lot as I was so …

So what is it going to take to deliver all-day wearable AR glasses?

by Bob Raikes

A few weeks ago, I spotted an interesting article on the long form ‘Medium’ platform from Avi Bar-Zeev. He’s been at Disney, Keyhole (acquired by Google), Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and has had his own …