SeeReal Technologies GmbH is a
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
-based company focusing on the development of
3D displays. 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 , abbreviated as TUD), also as the Dresden University of Technology, is a public research university in Dresden, Germany. It is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony a ...
(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
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(
California
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) and th
FPD2007 in
Yokohama
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Japan
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). The firm owns more than 100 patents in the field of
holographic
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and
autostereoscopic 3D displays.
SeeReal was awarded the European Information Society Technologies Prize (IST), and the Innovation Prize of the Free State of Saxony in 2007.
SeeReal, as of 2024, is out of business, and the website ceased functioning.
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