Akonia uses holography to create transparent augmented reality display
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But that company eventually went bankrupt, and Akonia was founded in August 2012 after acquiring millions of dollars in assets and the entire 200-patent portfolio from InPhase. “You can overlay something like a green arrow for navigation or a Pikachu for a game.” Akonia hopes to raise money in the coming months to get a pilot line going to manufacture the displays. “Our proprietary holographic photopolymers have been developed and refined for over 2 decades, and along with our ability to design and develop complex holographic recording systems we have a unique insight into how to use holography to create the most elusive and difficult component of an AR headset: a thin, transparent eyepiece that provides good display performance at a reasonable cost,” Anderson said. Akonia is taking an entirely new holographic approach that utilizes its high-performance photopolymers, along with expertise in combining a multitude of holograms in a single layer of polymer to better control the quality and size of the images that are being redirected towards the eye. This is what nobody else in the world can do, but we can.” He believes Akonia’s HoloMirror technology will finally enable AR headsets to be thin, transparent, vibrant, full-color, and have a wide field of view at a fraction of the cost of competitors.