Submitted 6 months ago by solo@kbin.earth to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24153092/stanford-ai-holographic-ar-glasses-3d-imaging-research
A research team at Stanford is developing a new AI-assisted holographic imaging technology it claims is thinner, lighter, and higher quality than anything its researchers have seen.
the Stanford tech is currently just a prototype
Stop trying to make AR glasses happen.
Why?
That's a pretty cool idea, though I think it would be a challenge to align the plans perfectly with the actual construction site.
They already exist in much larger packaging.
They already exist in much larger packaging.
Nobody uses that stuff, though.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But Stanford’s Computational Imaging Lab has an entire page with visual aid after visual aid that suggests it could be onto something special: a thinner stack of holographic components that could nearly fit into standard glasses frames, and be trained to project realistic, full-color, moving 3D images that appear at varying depths.
Like other AR eyeglasses, they use waveguides, which are a component that guides light through glasses and into the wearer’s eyes.
But researchers say they’ve developed a unique “nanophotonic metasurface waveguide” that can “eliminate the need for bulky collimation optics,” and a “learned physical waveguide model” that uses AI algorithms to drastically improve image quality.
Although the Stanford tech is currently just a prototype, with working models that appear to be attached to a bench and 3D-printed frames, the researchers are looking to disrupt the current spatial computing market that also includes bulky passthrough mixed reality headsets like Apple’s Vision Pro, Meta’s Quest 3, and others.
Postdoctoral researcher Gun-Yeal Lee, who helped write the paper published in Nature, says there’s no other AR system that compares both in capability and compactness.
Companies like Meta have spent billions buying and building AR glasses technology, in the hopes of eventually producing a “holy grail” product the size and shape of normal glasses.
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Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Any time a news headline asks a question, the answer is almost always “no”
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 months ago
After reading the article, this might be the exception.
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 6 months ago
Agreed. The form factor is right. AR technology will only reach the possibility of mass adoption when it can fit in/on the existing eye-glasses form factor.
fart_pickle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines