Light Blue Optics was founded back in 2004 by four post-graduate engineering students from the University of Cambridge to commercialise an efficient method for the real-time projection of full-colour video images using holographic laser projection.

Holographic laser projection had been considered theoretically possible for some forty years. However, creating the holograms needed to produce high-quality video images was too computationally intensive and power hungry for actual implementation. So the technique remained a theory.

(l-r: Dr Edward Buckley, Dr Peter Mash, Dr Nic Lawrence, Dr Adrian Cable)

While still students, LBO’s founders figured out a way to make the theory a commercial reality. They devised holographic algorithms which would efficiently calculate multiple holograms for a rough version of the image. When shown in quick succession, the eye’s temporal bandwidth averages out the noise and perceives a single clearly defined image, enabling high-quality, efficient video in real time.

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