Talks

Speaker: Alastair Grant (DigiLens) Title: "Enabling the Next Generation of Digital Mobility With Volume Holographic Waveguides" Video: Click here to view Abstract: The dawn of next generation digital mobility has arrived! The paradigm of today’s smart phones is beginning to change, right at the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions becoming ubiquitous in our everyday […]

Speaker: Dr. Nihar Mohanty (Meta) Title: Waveguide Innovations on Path to Immersive Augmented Reality Video: Click here to view Abstract: Ever since the “Sword of Damocles” augmented reality (AR) prototype was invented by Ivan Sutherland in 1968, enabling an all-day-wearable true immersive augmented reality display has been a grand challenge for the field of optics […]

Speaker: Professor Laura Waller (UCB) Title: Space-time methods for computational microscopy Video: Click here to view Abstract: Computational imaging is permeating cameras and microscopes across many scientific applications, enabling new high-resolution and multi-dimensional measurement capabilities (e.g. phase, 3D, hyperspectral). But many methods require acquisition of multiple images to reconstruct this new information, limiting their applicability […]

Speaker: Dr.  Gun-Yeal Lee (Stanford) Title: Nanophotonics and AI for display and imaging system applications Video: Click here to view Abstract: Advances in optics and photonics are driving innovations in display and imaging systems, but conventional optical elements remain limited by bulkiness and restricted light modulation. To overcome these challenges, new design paradigms are necessary […]

Speaker: Dr. Andrea Colaco (Google) Title: Agentic AI for XR Video: Click here to view Abstract: As extended reality (XR) technologies rapidly mature, the integration of intelligent agents is set to redefine how users interact with virtual, augmented, and mixed environments. This talk explores the emerging paradigm of Agentic AI for XR, where AI systems […]