Products featured at an extraterrestrial “First Contact” experience with the SETI Institute.
December 5, 2024 – Light Field Lab (LFL), the leading developer of next-generation display technologies, launches new SolidLight: Holographic and Volumetric product configurations. The SolidLight: Holographic multi-panel system is available for the first time, modulating 10 Billion pixels/m2 to form holographic objects in midair. SolidLight: Volumetric is the latest addition to the company’s suite of technologies, offering floating multi-planar objects formed with 100 Million pixels/m2.
The product launch was developed in collaboration with the SETI Institute, the renowned organization searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, to showcase SolidLight through a theatrical experience. The invitation-only event entertained thought leaders from a wide variety of industries, including media, technology, retail and tourism. “SETI and Light Field Lab created a themed environment enabling guests to suspend disbelief and engage with an extraterrestrial formed with nothing but light,” said Jon Karafin, CEO of Light Field Lab.
The SETI Institute emerged as the ideal partner to introduce the possibilities of SolidLight. SETI leverages advanced technologies and immense bandwidth to capture and analyze radio signals, while LFL builds advanced display technology that incorporates incredible resolution and compute to enable holographic and volumetric objects that escape the screen and merge with reality. “The SETI Institute has partnered with Light Field Lab to enable an incredibly immersive experience and launch the company’s extraordinary SolidLight technologies. These are next-level, next-generation displays that are clearly the precursor to Star Trek’s Holodeck,” said Bill Diamond, president & CEO of the SETI Institute.
SolidLight: Holographic installations are built-to-order based upon customer requirements and powered with an array of media servers to form fully holographic objects. SolidLight: Volumetric systems are available now with delivery in 2025 and driven with a single computer to form multiple planes within the holographic volume. SolidLight experiences are exclusively hosted at Light Field Lab's headquarters in San Jose, California. Availability is limited and by appointment only. Interested parties should contact SpecialAgent-5371@LFL-SETI.com.
About Light Field Lab, Inc.
Light Field Lab’s roadmap of technologies begins with SolidLight holographic displays to seamlessly merge real and virtual worlds together. Light Field Lab is based in San Jose, California and backed by industry luminaries at Gates Frontier and Khosla Ventures, the venture capital and corporate investment arms of market leaders Bosch, Comcast, Corning, HELLA, LG, Liberty Global, NCSOFT, NTT Docomo, OTOY, Samsung, and Verizon, and a prestigious list of venture capital firms including AVG, ACME Capital, R7 Partners, and Taiwania Capital.
Further information about Light Field Lab and the SolidLight platform is available online. You may also connect with Light Field Lab on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.