Presentation Abstract

Immersive displays generally either involve giant screens or headsets that place tiny screens and lenses close to a person’s eyes. BRELYON, a deep tech display startup in Silicon Valley is introducing a new category of displays that provide a large field of view (larger than most VR headsets) as well as a sense of depth with no need for wearing any headsets. This talk will talk about the principles of depth perception and how that may be used to increase the field of view and realize such new categories of displays.

Dr. Barmak Heshmat, Founder and CEO of BRELYON

Dr. Barmak Heshmat is the founder and CEO of BRELYON, a display technology startup in silicon valley which is pioneering a new category of displays with computational media interfaces. Barmak was former head of optics at Meta Augmented Reality where he was leading a team of engineers to realize the next generation of augmented reality headsets. Before that he was a research scientist at MIT Media Lab where he pioneered multiple technologies in the area of computational displays and computational imaging. Dr. Heshmat has given six TEDx talks and has many publications and inventions some of which are featured on cover of MIT news, Nature photonics and other mainstream media outlets such as BBC, CBS; Tech crunch, etc.