Light Field Lab

Light Field Lab is a Silicon Valley-based company founded in 2017 by Jon Karafin, Brendan Bevensee, and Ed Ibe, who previously worked at Lytro. The company has developed SolidLight, a groundbreaking holographic display technology that creates true 3D images visible without the need for special glasses or headgear. SolidLight uses modular panels containing billions of pixels to generate light fields that form holographic objects appearing to float in mid-air. These holograms are viewable from multiple angles and behave like real objects, responding to focus changes and occlusion.

The SolidLight system comprises three layers: a photonic array of light-emitting nanoparticles, a modulated-amplitude plane, and a static PhaseGuide modulation plane. Together, these components manipulate light to create holographic images with a density of 10 billion pixels per square meter. Light Field Lab's proprietary WaveTracing software enables real-time rendering of holographic content from standard 3D engines like Unity and Unreal. In February 2023, the company demonstrated its Defy interactive experiences, which allow users to engage with responsive holographic characters in real-time.