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It looks like the acquired startup, Akonia, uses waveguides like Hololens but uses photopolymer in place of the diffraction grating.

https://mspoweruser.com/akonia-plans-holographic-waveguide-e...

https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/26/akonia-uses-holography-to...

Whitepaper on the photopolymer: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25835673/

They were going to replace tape storage with holographic storage before they figured out how to apply it to AR. Here's the holographic storage pitch deck:

https://science.energy.gov/~/media/np/pdf/sbir%2520sttr/SBIR...

http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw15/slides/AkoniaHolographicsKeynote....

parent doublerebel 8 years ago

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