Hello my fellow tech enthusiasts! Have you heard about the groundbreaking research coming out of Stanford? A research team at Stanford has developed a new AI-assisted holographic imaging technology that could potentially revolutionize the world of augmented reality (AR) glasses.

While the current lab version of the technology has a limited field of view, the team at Stanford’s Computational Imaging Lab is confident that they are onto something special. With a thinner stack of holographic components that could fit into standard glasses frames, this technology has the potential to project realistic, full-color, moving 3D images at varying depths.

The team has developed a unique “nanophotonic metasurface waveguide” that eliminates the need for bulky collimation optics, and uses AI algorithms to drastically improve image quality. This technology could disrupt the current spatial computing market dominated by bulky mixed reality headsets from companies like Apple and Meta.

Postdoctoral researcher Gun-Yeal Lee, one of the authors of the paper published in Nature, believes that this technology surpasses anything currently on the market in terms of capability and compactness. While companies like Meta are investing billions in AR glasses technology, Stanford’s prototype may just be the future of AR glasses.