Vividq, Startup Deeptech based in the UK with technology to demean holograms on heritage screens, has collected $ 15 million to develop the technology for the next generation and digital devices. And it has crossed manufacturing partners in the US, China and Japan to do so.
Round funding, seed extension round, led by Utokyo IPC, Ventura investment arm for the University of Tokyo. It joined Foresight Williams Technology (Joint Collaboration between the Foresight Group and Williams Advanced Engineering), Japan Miyako Capital, Apex Ventures in Austria, and the R42 VC Group came out of Stanford. Previous investors University of Tokyo Edge Capital, definitely Valley Ventures, and Essex innovation also participated.
Funding will be used for the scale of the Vividq Hololcd technology, which, claimed the company, changed the consumer class screen to a holographic look.
Established in 2017, Vividq has worked with arms, and other partners, including photonic compounds, Himax technology, and Iview display.
This startup is aiming for the technology in the automotive HUD, the appearance installed in the head (HMDS), and smart glasses with computer-generated holographic that projects “actual 3D images with the correct depth, making the look more natural and profound for users.” He also said that he had found a way to change the normal LCD screen to a holographic look.
“The scene we know from the film, from Iron Man to Star Trek, becomes closer to the reality than before,” Darran Milne, Co-Founder and CEO Vividq, said. “In Vividq, we are on a mission to bring holographic displays to the world for the first time. Our solution helps bring innovative display products to the automotive industry, enhance the experience of AR, and will soon change the way we interact with personal devices, such as laptops and cellphone. “
Mikio Kawahara, Investment Head Utokyo IPC, said, “The future display is a holographic. Demand for 3D images that are enhanced in real world settings grow throughout the display industry. Vividq products will make future ambitions from many consumer electronics businesses.”
Hermann Hauser, Advisory ‘Apex Ventures and Co-Founder Arm added: “The computer produced by the computer re-creates a deep projection that has the same 3D information with the world around us. Vividq has the potential to change the way humans interact with digital information.”
Talking with a call with me, Milne added: “We have placed technology on a gaming laptop that can really take advantage of the holographic look on a standard LCD screen. So you know the image is actually extending from the screen. We don’t use optical trickery.”
“When we say the hologram, what we mean is the hologram is basically a set of instructions that tell the light of how to behave. We calculate the effect algorithmically and then present it to the eye, so it cannot be distinguished from real objects. It is fully natural too. You and your visual system cannot distinguish it from something real because you really provide the same information with reality, so there is no trick in the normal sense, “he said.
If this works, it can of course be a transformation, and I can see it very well married with technology like ultraleap.