Advances in Computer-Generated Holography for 3D Display Applications Darran Milne, CEO and Co-founder of VIVIDQ

This talk will mostly be about our efforts to make Computer-Generated Holography (CGH) a viable display solution for the consumer market, essentially looking at advances in CGH for 3D display applications and how you build a business around that.

CGH is in some sense the ideal display as, in principle, it can be used to recreate full 3D images of objects with very high accuracy, sufficient to pass the visual Turing test and potentially give us a route to the ultimate immersive display experience. While promising, there have been very few attempts to commercialise the technology due to several longstanding challenges that make CGH infeasible for current display applications.

Alumnus Darran Milne (MPhys 2008, PhD 2012), CEO and Co-founder of VIVIDQ, will discuss the standard methods in CGH and why they are unsuitable for display applications before presenting the recent work from VividQ on how to overcome these challenges. In particular, I will cover our solutions for image quality, limited etendue, system form factor and computational overhead and go on to discuss some near-term applications of CGH in upcoming consumer products and some perspectives for the future.

As we talk through the development of our technology, Darran will intersperse some of his experience in spinning out a deep tech startup in the UK, including how to know when to start a company, the routes to gain funding, and the challenges of scaling.