Photonics Spectra Article: Waveguide Designs Bring Extended Reality into Sight

January 2024 – Photonics Spectra has written an article which discusses the future of alternative, virtual, and mixed reality hinges on waveguide designs that can deliver user comfort, high functionality, and low cost. 

With contributions from NIL Technologies, Lumus, Digilens,VividQ, Inprentus, and in particular, Andreas Georgiou, a Microsoft researcher and optical engineer with Reality Optics in Cambridge, the view is that extended and mixed reality is indeed in sight. 

NIL Technology, which introduced its first diffractive gratings for AR in 2008, is seeing customers continuously request more advanced nanostructures to optimize their display performance. 

“At the same time, customers are, to a constantly higher degree, designing for manufacturing both from a mastering and a replication point of view.”

— Theodor Nielsen, CEO & Founder of NIL Technology