Light Field Lab raises $28 million for huge holographic displays
Summary
Jon Karafin, CEO of Light Field Lab, told me in an interview in November that he wants to bring real-world holographic experiences to life with up to hundreds of gigapixels of resolution, including modular video walls for live event and large-scale installations. With this implementation, a viewer sees around objects when moving in any direction such that motion parallax is maintained, reflections and refractions behave correctly, and the eyes freely focus on the items formed in mid-air. “We want to make sure that the way we roll our technologies out is starting with the really big thing, using large-scale, high-value entertainment experiences, showing something that is transformational that nobody has ever seen before.” The building blocks will be assembled into large images, like a T-Rex at a museum that looks amazingly real to the children who are standing next to it. But we are going to create and we will show you today that it is a fully interactive, social experience that you and your friends and your family we can all be in the same environment together and not be limited to some kind of isolated experience.” “Light Field Lab’s holographic display technologies enable entirely new business opportunities across consumer and enterprise markets,” said Ingo Ramesohl, managing director of co-lead investor Bosch Venture Capital, in a statement. “We look forward to working with our syndicate of manufacturing, content creation and distribution partners to uncover opportunities and alliances across a range of vertical markets as we take our technology to the next phase.” “It’s a merger between the real and synthetic worlds,” he said.