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and your 1500€ phone still sucks compared to my 500€ DSLR, lol
Yeah I seriously doubt that. Not without a lens that costs 3x-4x times the camera. If you spent 500€ on a kit that makes iPhone or Pixel photos look bad... you bought it stolen, lol.
And yes, it is better than any phonecamera.
Requires Zeiss Multifunctional Smart Glass(tm)
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and your 1500€ phone still sucks compared to my 500€ DSLR, lol
For the everyday needs of the average non-enthusiast consumer, I'd argue that an iPhone is simply better than a DSLR or mirrorless - not just more portable or more convenient, but capable of producing reliably better images. Sure, the DSLR is the obvious choice if you're a serious photographer, but most people aren't serious photographers. If they buy a DSLR or mirrorless camera, they're going to use the kit lens and…
And yeah u have to learn how to properly use a dedicated camera which is why i only shoot with manual settings, for casuals phones are enough.
For the people kinda worried: this is a highly specialized piece of glass that is extremely complicated to manufacture at present and must, due to the laws of thermodynamics, not be 100% transparent. It's not going to allow surveillance through existing glass installations in any form, just possibly new ones if there's room for the support equipment and through the use of 4-5 digit piles of cash. Any camera glass lik…
I agree with everything you said, but the example on the CES floor does not have an apparent tint.
After some searching I found a patent I think may be related to this https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2020225109A1/en because it uses the phrase "Holocam", is German and was filed by Audi (the press release mentions automotive applications as the primary initial use case). It's a translation from German which makes it a bit tougher to parse than the usual patent. The total lack of any deeper information beyond the…
The paper mentioned in the Description section can be read here: https://www.academia.edu/52566311/_title_Volume_phase_hologr...
My guess is that each of the items in patent diagram labeled 20 and 22 are gratings of this sort, perhaps with the fringes angled at 45 degrees.
Some additional info may be gleaned from the one patent citing this one, invented by one of the co-inventors of the latter: https://patents.google.com/patent/DE102019206354A1/en
Having played with light fields and photography, I have questions. There has to be an imaging sensor somewhere. Where is it? I strongly suspect most of this "magic" will condense out of this cloud into a puddle of marketing sponsored bovine excrement.
> The Holocam technology "uses holographic in-coupling, light guiding and de-coupling elements to redirect the incoming light of a transparent medium to a hidden image sensor." It looks like it still requires a sensor, it can just be hidden in the frame of the glass.
In most cases such as the windscreen you can just have a camera on the frame. Why does it need to utilise the glass itself?
The article is poorly written, as it only discusses the camera component. Strangely, they chose stock images of holographic and optical displays, but didn’t mention that even once. The Zeiss site is a much better read: https://www.zeiss.com/corporate/en/about-zeiss/present/newsr... In summary: 1) ZEISS unveils holographic Smart Glass at CES 2024, both for displays/projection/filtering, but also another component whic…
Thanks for linking to that. > coupling, decoupling and light guiding elements to divert incident light to a concealed sensor So, there's a camera in the dash looking up at the windshield and focusing where it expects to see a face, thereby using the windshield as a reflector? And maybe there's some additional etching and deposited films in the windshield to support the angles required? And perhaps you can put cameras…
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Yes and I manually sort through thousands of sunflower seeds every year to get the good ones for my breeding program but our obscure hobbies aren’t the norm.
Now I want to know more about your sunflower breeding program :)