article thumbnail

Akonia Uses Holography To Create Transparent Augmented Reality Display

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The company now plans to use holography to make inexpensive transparent displays for augmented reality smartglasses. Augmented reality is expected to be a $90 billion market by 2020, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. We’ve used lenses for hundreds of years, and we hope holography will give us a new way to manipulate light.”.

article thumbnail

Apple Acquires AR Optics Startup Akonia Holographics

Road to VR

Founded in 2012, Colorado-based Akonia Holographics claims to have 200 patents focused on holography, specifically pertaining to storage and optics. Back in April, a CNET report indicated that Apple is working on a combined AR/VR headset with an 8K per-eye resolution and a 2020 launch target. ” The company previously raised $11.6

Apple 149
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What holograms are and why they matter in XR

The Ghost Howls

Samsung is experimenting on true holographic displays for smartphones and in 2020 it claimed that the technology guaranteed either a viewing angle of 0.25 Big kudos to Wikipedia for having a very well-written page on Holography. I hope you enjoyed this journey into holography as I did. inch display. Further references.

article thumbnail

NVIDIA Researchers Demonstrate Ultra-thin Holographic VR Glasses That Could Reach 120° Field-of-view

Road to VR

. “[…] the [system’s field-of-view] was mainly limited by the size of the available [spatial light modulator] and the focal length of the GP lens, both of which could be improved with different components.

Wearables 254