RealD Inc. is a private company known for its

RealD 3D RealD 3D is a digital stereoscopy, stereoscopic projection technology made and sold by RealD. It is currently the most widely used technology for watching 3D films in theaters. Worldwide, RealD 3D is installed in more than 26,500 auditoriums by app ...

system, which is used for projecting films in stereoscopic 3D using circularly polarized light. The company was founded in 2003 by Michael V. Lewis and Joshua Greer. The company was taken public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in July 2010, trading under the ticker RLD. It re-privatized in 2016 by the private equity firm

Rizvi Traverse Suhail R. Rizvi is an Indian-American businessman and co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Rizvi Traverse Management LLC. He has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and sits on the Wh ...

. Between 2005 and 2007, the company purchased StereoGraphics Inc. and optical components technology company ColorLink, a provider of

rear-projection television Rear-projection television (RPTV) is a type of large-screen television display technology. Until approximately 2006, most of the relatively affordable consumer large screen TVs up to used rear-projection technology. A variation is a video projec ...

(RPTV) equipment, polarizing film and optical technologies. RealD developed its technology to create its 3D cinema systems.

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* Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange Film and video technology Companies established in 2003 Companies based in Beverly Hills, California {{film-org-stub