Light Field Lab Raises $50M To Bring SolidLight Holograms Into The Real World
... Their SolidLight displays are a completely new method of creating 3D objects that appear to be real and placing them in the physical world. They look real to the eye, but are formed with nothing but light. No glasses are required to see them, which is why their SolidLight naked-eye holograms were named one of the Best Inventions of 2022 by TIME. ...
If I wasn’t visiting a company that makes holographic technology, I would have thought I was speaking with a person wearing a mask— it looked that real. What I witnessed was the first of Light Field Lab’s Defy™ experiences. The team later revealed that I was interacting with a SolidLight hologram being computationally rendered in real-time by a game engine. The hologram’s eyes seemed to be following me around the room. After getting to know me, his deity-ness invited me to touch his face, and when I did, my hand passed right through the hologram. ...
The hologram was formed using LFL’s latest SolidLight panel modulating over 2.5 Billion pixels. Unlike my last meeting, this demonstration leveraged their new WaveTracing™ engine that performs billions of wavefront computations in real-time to form the interactive holographic objects. The WaveTracer is seamlessly integrated into industry standard 3D engines, like Unreal and Unity. ...
See the full story here; https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2023/02/08/light-field-lab-raises-50m-to-bring-solidlight-holograms-into-the-real-world/?sh=46009ead7070
