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Xbox Cofounder Seamus Blackley Takes R&D Post at AR Firm Daqri

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Daqri is working with Blackley, who was originally a theoretical physicist before he started making games, and his team of physicists at Heat Engine in Southern California to explore applications of optics and holography in something that Daqri calls Software Defined Light. Among them was using holography to do instantaneous 3D printing.”.

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Microsoft Research Reveals New, Slimmed Down AR Glasses

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.” The researchers methodology here is “built on the principles of Fresnel holography and double phase amplitude encoding with additional hardware, phase correction factors, and spatial light modulator encodings to achieve full color, high contrast and low noise holograms with high resolution and true per-pixel focal control.”

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