SeeReal Technologies GmbH is a
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
-based company focusing on the development of
3D display
A 3D display is a display device capable of conveying depth perception, depth to the viewer. Many 3D displays are stereoscopic displays, which produce a basic 3D effect by means of stereopsis, but can cause eye strain and visual fatigue. Newer ...
s. It is owned by its
Luxembourg
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parent company SeeReal Technologies S.A., which is responsible for marketing, partnering and IP licensing.
The firm was founded in 2002 by Dr. Armin Schwerdtner, who had previously headed an optics research group at the
Dresden University of Technology
TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...
(TU Dresden).
SeeReal develops technology that is licensed to display manufacturers, including several variants of a tracked autostereoscopic display.
The firm has presented a real-time desktop holographic display on the
SID 2007 Display Week in
Long Beach
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Incorporate ...
(
California
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) and th
FPD2007 in
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...
(
Japan
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). The firm owns more than 100 patents in the field of
holographic
Holography is a technique that enables a wavefront to be recorded and later re-constructed. Holography is best known as a method of generating real three-dimensional images, but it also has a wide range of other Holography#Applications, applic ...
and
autostereoscopic
Autostereoscopy is any method of displaying stereoscopic images (adding binocular perception of 3D depth) without the use of special headgear, glasses, something that affects vision, or anything for eyes on the part of the viewer. Because headg ...
3D displays.
SeeReal was awarded the European Information Society Technologies Prize (IST), and the Innovation Prize of the Free State of Saxony in 2007.
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Display
Display may refer to:
Technology
* Display device, output device for presenting information, including:
** Cathode ray tube, video display that provides a quality picture, but can be very heavy and deep
** Electronic visual display, output devi ...
Holography