Realfiction recently exhibited at Display Week 2023 its next-gen 2-inch microLED ECHO proof-of-concept display that is enabled by its proprietary driving system and powered by FLC technology from its collaboration partner HKUST. With the commercial license agreement in place, Realfiction has the exclusive rights to use the FLC technology for the lifetime of the patents for application in 3D displays larger than 9-inches (approximately until 2041).

“The response we received from booth visitors during Display Week 2023 was amazing, and we now continue communication with relevant parties”, says Peter Simonsen, co-founder of Realfiction and continues “Securing the exclusive license with HKUST prior to attending Display Week 2023 was important to ensure that we have the intellectual property rights required to produce large, immersive social multiuser 3D microLED displays.”

The combination of Realfiction’s underlying directional pixel technology in the patent-pending driving system and super-fast FLC technology unlocks the holy grail of 3D by enabling multiuser glasses-free viewing without any loss of resolution and is set to enable many sought-after use cases for the display industry. Realfiction’s invention has the potential of empowering the display industry with a real alternative to the competition from AR/VR glasses that are limited to one-user scenarios.

“Since I saw the Giant Screen 3D film “Into the Deep” more than 20 years ago, I have been fascinated by the hyper realistic experience of stereoscopic 3D,” says Steen Iversen, Realfiction’s Director of Advanced Display Technology and continues “This initiated my line of work in the 3D industry with 3D for cinema, tv and planetarium domes. I quickly realized that eliminating the 3D glasses was key to making 3D a mainstream experience and I have since then been dreaming of inventing a technology to make this happen. When I met with the founders of Realfiction we quickly realized that we shared this dream. I was happy to join the Company in 2019 where we started Project ECHO with the ambition of creating social and immersive 3D experiences. We now have a great team in Copenhagen and Taipei working on Project ECHO, and we secured an exclusive license for super-fast FLC technology, thus enabling us to create true multiuser 3D displays also with microLED. I am confident, that the combined technology can become the future standard for glasses-free 3D displays delivering a holographic experience to audiences around the world, and our team looks very much forward to presenting our 17-inch HD ECHO display later this year.”

Please also refer to the news from the HKUST Office of Knowledge Transfer website here https://okt.hkust.edu.hk/.

This project is supported by Innovation Fund Denmark.