NVIDIA embarks on AI-converged holographic AR glasses, Google/WiMi explores immersive experience

Instead of manipulating the intensity of light, the new display element, the spatial light modulator (SLM), manipulates the phase of light to be able to reconstruct 3D holographic images in front of or behind the SLM. Utilizing this principle, the team has introduced holographic glasses with a thickness of only 2.5 mm, utilizing waveguides, holographic near-eye displays, and geometric phase lenses to create holographic AR glasses with minimal thickness.

Another important feature of the design is the use of AI-driven holographic algorithms.SLM is driven by coherent light sources such as lasers, where precise manipulation of the coherent wavefront in the waveguide system is critical for holographic displays. To address this challenge, NVIDIA developed a mathematical model that uses a combination of physically accurate modelling techniques and AI to describe the propagation of the coherent waves in the waveguide.

Google has announced that it will work with HP to take Project Starline out of the lab and commercialize it starting in 2025, with a focus on connecting distributed teams and individuals in the workplace, which users will be able to experience in the future through existing videoconferencing services.

At Google I/O 2021, Google shared the Starline project, which leverages advanced AI, 3D imaging, and other technologies to make Starline a “magic window” that allows friends, family, and coworkers to talk to each other no matter where they are, gesture and make eye contact with friends, family and coworkers wherever they are, enabling face-to-face conversations over zero distance.

Holographic technology usually refers to the recording and reproduction of the recording and reproduction of the real three-dimensional image of an object through optical technology interference and diffraction principles and is a kind of stereoscopic display technology. Not only can it produce three-dimensional airborne illusions, but it can also make the illusions interact with the performers and complete the performance together, resulting in a stunning performance effect.

Currently the mainstream of several holographic projection technologies including air projection, laser projection and holographic display three, basically models the image projected on the transparent holographic film to form the final effect. Which is based on the principle of spectroscopic imaging, through the actual shooting of the product to build a three-dimensional model of the special processing, and then the shooting of the product image or product three-dimensional model image superimposed into the scene.

The concept of holographic compared to the meta-universe put forward earlier, the industry volume has also begun long ago. For the high cost of holographic technology, which requires a large number of high-precision equipment and technical support, the WiMi team has found a key breakthrough, the development strategy, in addition to the willingness to increase the investment in science and technology, in the market model is also gradually from the output of hardware and equipment to the focus on science and technology and industrial creativity combined to output.

At present, to cater to the constantly upgrading market demand, WiMi creates a holographic naked eye 3D digital person has almost the same as the real person with realistic stereoscopic sense and vivid expression, The interactive experience is excellent, and the product range covers in the cultural tourism, live broadcasting, education, exhibitions and other scenarios accelerate the application of the vast number of consumers immersed in a new sense of science and technology in the audio-visual experience.

Holographic technology is the next era of interaction, its immersion, interactivity, and imagination is incomparable to other existing interaction methods. Although holographic display technology is still a little out of reach, it is undeniably a technology worth looking forward to. Among them, there have been many high-tech enterprises, persistent integration of technological innovation to expand resources, so that scientific and technological innovation to better serve the high-quality development of the real economy, to further promote the holographic technology innovation-driven development of a beautiful blueprint for the future of the holographic technology will have a disruptive impact in several fields.