{"id":142437,"date":"2022-07-18T12:46:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/swave-photonics-sees-holograms-getting-real"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:46:16","slug":"swave-photonics-sees-holograms-getting-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/swave-photonics-sees-holograms-getting-real","title":{"rendered":"Swave Photonics Sees Holograms Getting Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swave-photonics-sees-holograms-getting-real.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swave Photonics has designed holographic chips on a proprietary diffractive optics technology to \u201cbring the metaverse to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Can virtual reality become indistinguishable from actual reality? Swave Photonics, a spinoff of Imec and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has designed holographic chips on a proprietary diffractive optics technology to \u201cbring the metaverse to life.\u201d The Leuven, Belgium\u2013based startup has raised \u20ac7 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its multi-patented Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur vision is to empower people to visualize the impossible, collaborate, and accomplish more,\u201d Th\u00e9odore Marescaux, CEO and founder of Swave Photonics, told EE Times Europe. \u201cWith our HXR technology, we want to make that extended reality practically indistinguishable from the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to project images that are indistinguishable from reality? \u201cIt means a very wide field of view, colors, high dynamic range, the ability to move your head around an object and see it from different angles, and the ability to focus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swave Photonics has designed holographic chips on a proprietary diffractive optics technology to \u201cbring the metaverse to life.\u201d Can virtual reality become indistinguishable from actual reality? Swave Photonics, a spinoff of Imec and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has designed holographic chips on a proprietary diffractive optics technology to \u201cbring the metaverse to life.\u201d The Leuven, Belgium\u2013based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1923,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-holograms","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}