This company should make their mascot/logo for this lens the rainbow mantis shrimp because these animals can also see all the types of light and polarization that this lens can.

@b0ark1ng21

10 ай бұрын

That would be cool

@JinKee

10 ай бұрын

And their compound eyes look a bit like these wafers.

@zot2698

10 ай бұрын

odd, but I would agree! lol!

@Cineenvenordquist

10 ай бұрын

Merely binding them into some conservation and outreach activities yaaaay. They cured my testicular cancer yay ow ow ow ouch whoo...

@VeganSemihCyprus33

10 ай бұрын

They are fooling and enslaving you with these gadgets 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

this is the kind of technology that motivates me to live longer

@freethink

10 ай бұрын

👴❤️

When taking physics in undergrad and thinking about how to make space telescopes that can image exoplanets. The idea of a lens that can capture all the information contained in the photons in a nanometer size region space would allow this but until now I had no idea they actually had something that can do this. This would enable the mass production of a fleet of telescopes that can collectively image incredibly small and far away things.

@VeganSemihCyprus33

10 ай бұрын

They are fooling and enslaving you with these gadgets 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

@kuroitenshi1632

10 ай бұрын

Omg i completely forgot about this part. Imagine if we could put a big one for those telescope we sent above. This would be massive, we already invented something better than JW that was supposed to be the best we had

@Skinflaps_Meatslapper

10 ай бұрын

There's already talk of using the sun as a gravitational lens to magnify a point far behind it in the same way we get gravitational lensing in deep space images. If one could someday locally manipulate gravity, one could focus the light to a small point made of meta-lenses and extrapolate a ridiculous amount of information that we'd never be able to see without physically being there.

@homo-sapiens-dubium

10 ай бұрын

sadly, you'd still need X amount of photons, which would require a _huge_ collection surface for this kind of project. I doubt that inferometry based optics would be more efficient in "collecting" light than a plain mirror? An interesting idea for this project is to use the sun as a gravitational lens. There is an interesting paper from JPL on this, presented by this "friendly neighborhood astronomer Prof. of astronomy youtuber", forgot his name though...

@SeanOHanlon

10 ай бұрын

Astronomy was the first application I thought of as well. The metalenses could conceivably detect virtually everything across the entire light spectrum without the need for sub zero cooling.

I've been dreaming about metalenses for years. This is the holy grail of the lenses and it will be a revolution in smartphone cameras.

@Vaeldarg

10 ай бұрын

Magic Leap's CEO often talked about their waveguide being an "optical processor" (might be misremembering the exact term used). So a much more impressive use than the camera of a smartphone, would be for optical computing. When using photons, there's a MUCH larger processing bandwidth achieved due to the different wavelengths can use independent of each other. The different pieces have been slowly being developed for a while now, and hopefully can soon be brought together.

@VeganSemihCyprus33

10 ай бұрын

They are fooling and enslaving you with these gadgets 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

@c123bthunderpig

10 ай бұрын

That's great over 9 billion phones in the world NOT ONE IN MADE IN AMERICA, CELEBRATE THAT.

@Skinflaps_Meatslapper

10 ай бұрын

@@c123bthunderpig why don't you make one then

@c123bthunderpig

10 ай бұрын

@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper I have, not just one but by the billions for over 30 years, nothing new here, American industry shut it down, sent it off shore , killing jobs, and making more profit, not to mention giving away intellectual property in the meantime.

I, and many others, were making these routinely in our labs in the late 1980s. There are many published papers on the subject. My first Ph.D. student went on to found a company that sold these commercially in the 1990s. If Metalens has any advance over old technology, it's not apparent from the video.

@xstrxd

10 ай бұрын

Lately I've been wondering if the sort of tech used in phased array radars and to steer wifi/cellular beams is applicable to visible light. What i'm wondering is this mostly based on the same principle?

@atmel9077

10 ай бұрын

This video and the company's website present it as an obscure new technology... from what I understand, this is a holographic lens, holograms were invented in the 60s and have to be made on photographic plates, the real innovation here is to make the hologram using photolithography. Another possible innovation is to control both the amplitude and phase of the interference pattern, making this an in-between of holograms and spatial light modulators, and would allow to remove the conjugate image. The big problem is that such a lens can only work with a single wavelength of light and can only be used with laser illumination. Could be used for machine vision applications, but it's certainly not going to replace camera lenses anytime soon. The video illustrates the patterns of the lens with tiny colored shapes... nope, the pattern is probably concentric circles, what is called a fresnel zone plate.

@atmel9077

10 ай бұрын

@@xstrxd Yes, it's called a hologram, and it's sort of an optical phased array. The "beam-steering" properties of holograms allows them to record images of 3-dimensional objects. Holograms were also used in the 60s and 70s to reconstruct images taken by radar satellites

@mikeheffernan

10 ай бұрын

Well, what happened? You sound scornful.

@DavidZysk-bv2bb

10 ай бұрын

It might be an ad for the company targeted at investors.

one thing they did not touch upon is that these lenses can be made in a way that makes photonics possible i.e. computing with light instead of electrons.

@mancerrss

8 ай бұрын

Isn’t that in a way less efficient since Light wavelengths can be way larger than using electrons?

@SC-zq6cu

8 ай бұрын

@@mancerrss That doesn't matter here

@Atheist7

7 ай бұрын

@@mancerrss BUT, the computing would be done at the SPEED of LIGHT. AND, you could EASILY...... Increase the size of a BYTE!!!! have bytes of 8, 16, 32, 64...... OR, 10, 20, 40, 80, 100 or 200, if you like!!!!!!!

@Player-pj9kt

7 ай бұрын

How would these lenses be better then fibre optics? Explain to me

@SC-zq6cu

7 ай бұрын

@@Player-pj9kt the same way an integrated chip is better than a circuit made of copper wires: circuit elements can be packed into microscopic sizes thus having every bit of area contain more circuit elements leading to greater compute power for the same area.

Optics only get so complicated because we need more optics to correct for the faults in the original optics, but even the correcting optics themselves need correcting. You just can't win. Meta lenses don't need any of that and that makes them simpler and much better.

@mcmadness110

10 ай бұрын

I know vr headsets get around this problem by making sure the inconstancies are consistent and then corrects it digitally.

@madbeef.

10 ай бұрын

Hubble telescope has left the chat.

@johnflux1

10 ай бұрын

@@mcmadness110 That only works for problems like chromatic aberration. You still need optics to correct for spherical aberration. You still need to have it full in focus on the LCD plane.

@jnhkx

7 ай бұрын

This is the reason why Arri Sig Prime lenses has to be that huge. They got a correction piece of glass for the correction piece of glass for the correction piece of glass and so on haha That near perfect no focus breathing is unreal. But as they stated, it's still not 100% perfect, just enough and look the best with our eyes. Wait for this semiconductor level lenses etching for the phone to be cheap and mass produce. probably nice to have apsc size sensor on phone with lenses like 2 mm thick and got 24mmF2 FF equiv. If not, at this rate, we probably got the phone that has 10 cm thick camera bump lmao.

Outstanding, amazing tech. A true paradigm shift. Congrats to the chefs. Bring it on.

A telescope built with these would be fantastic, since CMOS image sensors and meta lenses are both made via photolithographic processes you could feasibly order multiple wafers and make them a bunch of self contained units. Each one a mini telescope. Then package them in into a VLBI orbital observatory. Also I'm not sure about the maximum angle, but since silicon is invisible to some IR, you could make a Sensor + support-silicon + metalense stacked die for very small cameras?

@Vermiliontea

10 ай бұрын

Light doesn't scale. When it comes to cameras and lenses (or optical mirrors) there is no substitute for size. This video is exactly correct when it emphasizes that it offers extracting more information _inside_ the image. That is also all it offers. But we don't know yet what that will lead to. Better identification and diagnosing probably, that sounds very plausible. Military AI that is better at discerning the hiding russian soldiers it will plink with mini grenades, maybe. Having AI machinery to 'see' more will maybe be the biggest application.

@kepler_22b83

10 ай бұрын

My guess is that the polarization detection will offload a very big portion of an AI's work when it tries to see 3d... Computer vision would become more reliable, and if it can see more than a human, the possibilities for it are endless.

@kepler_22b83

10 ай бұрын

@@Vermiliontea Though I agree, it would have an effective military application, it is still a weapon politicians are gonna use for mass slaughter. Those fuckers want you to think they are protecting you, they will do everything possible to paint themselves in a good light, even though they have instigated those wars themselves to further their agenda. And I'm not defending Russia, rather, USA has the same fault in what is happening. I wonder if USA wins, who is the next bitch they will harass? China? They talk about free market, yet for them destroying the lifeblood of other countries is also "business". In short, be careful of what you're supporting, for I am sure that you know not all the underlying consequences.

@falrus

9 ай бұрын

@@Vermiliontea if we can capture light by multiple sensors preserving the coherence by for example, mixing it with the reference source like laser, it would allow to build a facet eye telescope from multiple cheap units

@Sadeeq

4 ай бұрын

That little jab at Zuckerberg 😂😂😂😊

Interesting subject, informative, well produced and top tier animations. Appreciate it!

Meta-materials will change our world, and how we look at it. This specific tech, can also be used as a magnifier to see both the very small, and the very far. I Love how this can be used to 'see' much broader wavelength as well. Light bending meta-materials for cloaking has been tested for at least a decade. Meta-matrials can be used for most, if not all wavelengths, enhancing things like antennas and sensors. In a way, we have been using such materials for decades already. DLP, lab on a chip, the microscopic sensor that detects acceleration in everything from your car to your cellphone. As you could see, this was made in a fab. Only our imagination limit what kind of 'machines' we can shrink down on to a microchip...

This technology I can see is gonna be absolutely, and not only this gives cameras and optics and sensors etc more capabilities including making them even more powerful and things that we never thought possible I'm very excited for this technology

Incredible video, had never heard of these materials before but there's a lot of room for growth if they're being printed in the same way as processors.

@h7opolo

10 ай бұрын

this video is fraudulent and so is the company this video is about. americans have no intelligence or integrity. change will not come from america.

This is like a phased array antenna but optical. Very cool.

This entire video comes off as an advertisement masquerading as education. It's very well produced, with super crisp visuals, and smooth editing. It also stretches out every simple explanation by 10x, and is pretending like this tech is new, when it's not. You can watch Huygens Optics make these things in his garage shop, and he walks you through all the actual science + the software used to design these lenses.

@unosturgis

9 ай бұрын

Agreed, this feels very "solar freaking roadways". Not to mention the infantile talk, this is for a specific target audience.

@Player-pj9kt

7 ай бұрын

In which video did hyguen optics make these lens? I dont recall him using photolithography to create an array of lens. The new manufacturing technoque is the topic of this video

@Efecretion

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is cringe AF and I cannot watch it.

Fantastic I'm waiting for this for years!

that's really cool!, the explanation of the fingers in the water interfering with the waves was actually very helpful. It gave me a good intuitive, if very basic, understanding of how they work

It is one of my first time watching Freethink and I love the « Hard Reset » technology forward looking concept ❤. I like very much video about optical meta-optic through photolitography and this video conveys exactly what I am thinking about this technology for a long time (after reading an article on Technology Review). In my opinion, another interesting topic is spintronics and MRAM (let say bi-stable DRAM, like be-stable E-Ink displays) that should finally allow « Normally-off Computing » to emerge. The European research center IMEC recently published work about their Non-Volatile VG-SOT-MRAM and Intel is also working on their beyond CMOS technology concept called MESO…

@freethink

10 ай бұрын

So glad you liked the video! We have more Hard Reset episodes coming soon, so keep an eye out. Really interesting topics you posted, too - we'll check them out!

This is really exciting! I‘m really thrilled to hold one of these sensors in a consumer product for the first time

such a great channel. you have gained a sub!

These will revolutionize so many things, including contact lenses, microsatellites, medical imaging, photonic computing, so much

Please upload full documentry about this

It might be used to transport data with huge bandwidth potential, and depending on sensors possibly store it.

Wow! 😮 Loving the CGI light passing through lenses!

Insane graphics, very informative. Thanks for the video

1:04 you had me at “you could change your wife”

Analysis of the atmospheres of exoplanets would be a great way to use this tech.

I like the Automotive Application benefits. Whether people use them or not (idc how good of a driver you are, the computer thinks faster) Pre Collision Auto Braking, Collision Avoidance, Lane Keep Assist, Adaptive Cruise, Blind Spot Detection, etc. all things that help bad drivers be safer for others, and avoid accidents. A black ice sensor would be amazing in Winter areas.

Interesting subject, informative, well produced and top tier animations. Appreciate it!. Interesting subject, informative, well produced and top tier animations. Appreciate it!.

@freethink

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Amazing tech... congratulations! SCARY what can be done with this tech

This is awesome. The future is exciting.

Polarity modulation would add a whole generation worth of communication bandwidth. With this technique as is, you can split polarity into as many bands as you can fit regions on the chip.

Most interesting topic I've seen this week... Crazy...

Polarization is so cool, I did not know this is what polarization could tell as I found it counter intuitive.

I mean you could say that our devices would be able to see the world in a whole new way. But our devices are an extension of ourselves. Obviously eventually we will figure out how to make contact lenses or some other sort of implant that would enable ourselves to experience it more directly. Just like going from a wheeled chair to prosthetic etc.

@jensenraylight8011

10 ай бұрын

that was some cyberpunk sh*t right there, i'm in

I would love to work there. It only needs a few basic modifications to create a density scanner tuned to use wifi as the information carrier wave. Example, a mirror equivalent glass sheet in a home that uses the existing routers data broadcast to map a human body over a week or month. Finding changes in blockage, cancer growth, cyst, oxygen, etc. The data compiled and a 3d model built. Being able to avoid xray energy and mri magnetic rotations of molecules sometimes would save millions.

Im glad it can see that black ice, its dangerous and could cause problems.

@Codster121

10 ай бұрын

Something tells me that vehicle manufacturers could be considering that new lens technology for even more advanced safety systems, or something to alert a driver about black ice, and maybe turn the entire windshield into a HUD so the driver can see exactly where black ice or other hazards are.

Ok can manipulate light. but how clear it is? can be used in eye glass or camara lens?

This is a BIG subject -thanks !

The Carl Sagan is going to truly be next level. Cant wait.

If anyone else is wondering where to find more information related to the physics behind this, I would suggest looking into diffractive lenses.

particle & wave duality operation, cool, hope to see in our lifetime.

this could revolutionize everything including the cameras and such on infrared cameras on the military tracking and such

Fantastic outside the box thinking!

Where do I get one of those vacuum tube transistors?!? 🤣 Never-the-less, this is revolutionary!

This will be more interesting when we can see a comparison of images taken with a meta lens and a standard cannon telephoto lens...

Can these meta lense also let us see sounds and let us see (almost) every scent?

Hi Kami, you said you do affirmations all day, could you make a video about that, when do you say them during the day, do you record and play them on a Mp3 on repeat. What affirmations do you use, long or short? How do you word them? etc

Something similar to this concept used in a Kaleidescope so to say, to recieve signals from the brain or cerebellum to be used in a virtual avatar consiously for full dive VR

I know it's mentioned to put it in layman's terms, but 1:29 is wrong about the speed of light changing. The apparent change in speed is a change in phase and group velocity, not actually the light slowing down.

I can imagine the application for a future space telescope. It could be built in the shape of a half sphere, with the flat side designed to harness solar energy and protect the optics. The curved half sphere would serve as the optic element, maximizing its ability to capture and observe the entire region of space it faces. With this technique and technology, we could map the entire cosmos in greater detail than ever before.

Can these be used as logic gates to have a computer that works using the quantum properties of photons .. thus a room temp quantum computer

The graphics are on another level

This will unlock so many possibilities that people haven't even dreamed of yet = we can only think of X uses for it

4:39 - there is no such thing as "transistor tube". "Transistor" is _not_ a generic term for "electronic switch". (BTW, those tubes were mostly triodes; before them there were electromechanical relays.) Precision, people!

There are many useful applications for sensors adding polarization information, but not many I can think of that the average cell-phone user would have need for. It could be used for glare reduction in photography I suppose. The most practical use would be in potentially making cellphone camera lenses smaller and cheaper. I suspect camera miniaturization is more dependent on improvements in the sensors than the lenses. With enough light sensitivity, a pinhole camera would do.

@NickFromHardReset

10 ай бұрын

One key feature is identity verification - polarization information makes it much harder to spoof a person's face or identity for facial ID applications.

@crawkn

10 ай бұрын

@@NickFromHardReset true. So that alone would make it an important addition. And even though we might not need to include wavelengths outside the visible spectrum in most images, it could dramatically enhance accuracy of AI identification and interpretation of the physical world.

@Cineenvenordquist

10 ай бұрын

​@@NickFromHardResetwhat are you talking about, why would there be durable polarized features in a face?

@NickFromHardReset

10 ай бұрын

@@Cineenvenordquist I don’t think the camera is necessarily looking for durable polarized features- but the polarization data can provide a depth map, similar to other Face ID solutions, and it can also tell if the face it’s imaging is real or fake. A lot of their testing was with 3D printed versions of faces that could fool other cameras, but clearly read as artificial with polarization.

@weedfreer

10 ай бұрын

Are you kidding? Having the power to map things in 3D or confirm that something is made out of what its purportedly made from and having it in then palm of your hand would be game changing. Also, think about what it means in terms of health monitoring. The opportunities are endless here...all from 1 lens.

One thing....vacuum tubes are NOT transistors...they can perform the same functions but transistors are solid-state devices allowing the miniaturization that results in innovation in electronic design.

I would like to see this in my lifetime! Please bring back the silicon valley!

Star Trek Tricorders? YES PLEASE, thank you! The day I can take my phone and scan a watermelon or some Halo oranges and determine if they're ripe / NICE AND SWEET or NOT is the day I'm waiting for!!

Wow this is amazing!!!

I remember Texas Instruments developing the Digiital Micro Mirror chip that went into the iMax Theaters of the mid late 90s.

@stvwds61

9 ай бұрын

I was working in TI's Defense Systems Engineering Group(DESG) at the time. The development program group for DLP(DMD) sent us fully integrated projectors for field testing in our conference rooms and auditoriums. We were blown away at how crisp the full wall images were. Even the early video game images were outstanding. There were two major improvements DMD had over LCD, no visible address lines in large images and, angled edge lines of images were smooth, not "stair stepped" like LCD was. BTW: TI won an Acadamy Award(OSCAR) for DLP image technology. Also, most high-end home theater video projectors use DLP's with Laser light sources. Especially the ultra-short throw models.

@markdeffebach8112

9 ай бұрын

@@stvwds61 I hired into DSEG straight out of school. One of my school partners from a programmable chip sr project hired in to create applications for the DLP. Small world.

Truly amazing 👏

This is brilliant! I have an idea for an innovative application that can potentially increase the efficiency of solar panels. Designing the microlens' spectrum to match the quantum efficiency of the solar cells concurrently rejecting the infrared spectrum which produces heat and is largely useless for photovoltaics. This would be a worthwhile investment to study its commercial viability. The outdated Fresnel optics remain a major weakness in the field of solar power. I worked in the Greater Boston area where the high cost per square foot required the engineering team to maximize all available floor space for research and development. Who needs a large front lobby anyway?

I'm excited specifically for the spectrographic analysis capabilities of these lenses and what applications those will find. Maybe a combinations of these lens types would allow us to accurately read information about items that we couldn't before. Imagine being able to view what a material is made of by simply placing your phone near it.

Can this be used to make the light frequencies on a solar panel for example more efficiently move more electrons by causing better absorption of light?

"More computational power than we know what to do with" Don't worry software developers have you covered. We can apply our "clean code" practices and our SOLID principles to make any computer, no matter how powerful, feel slow and sluggish.

Well, if there are already ready serial solutions, then a year or two and this 100 poods will be added to smartphones, and this is simply incredible.

Can you make a 100m space telescope lens out of these? Or, replace the lenses used in consumer telescopes and electronics?

Metamaterial optical lenses aren't new. Victor Veselago's 1961 paper "The Electrodynamics of Substances with Simultaneously Negative Values of ε and μ" showed the possibility of metamaterial lensing by introducing the possibility of a negative index of refraction and matter affecting the reaction of light. See the Wikipedia entry: Superlens. The first microscope Superlens using a metamaterial increased the resolving power of a light microscope from 200 nanometers to 100 mn in 1981. Putting together the mathematics, computer power, and fabrication facilities to design and build Metalenz's metamaterial lenses will change many facets of optics. The prediction of size and mass creates a whole new kind of camera.

Can you write a 175 word essay whereby the number of vowels, consonants and letters are each exactly divisible by 7? Furthermore the number of words that begin with a vowel or consonant must also be exactly divisible by 7. The words you use only once must be divisible by 7. Additionally, because each letter has also a numeric value - a = 1, b = 2 etc., the total value of the essay must be exactly divisible by 7. You have been given only 7 criteria, the last 12 verses of Mark contains over 70 different features that are exactly divisible by 7. Take all the time in the universe.

Could you market at present two lens solutions, one all of the optical components required to make an 12/18/24 inch, refractor telescope and two a replacement eye lens for the blind which would help with restoring eyesight?

Smartphone and VR-AR-MR-XR lenses are goin to get a *HUGE* boost from this 👍 Imagine mixing-and-matching spectrums of captured infrared, polarized, and visible light all on the same lens!

@Player-pj9kt

7 ай бұрын

Not sure if i agree with this. Human eyes cant see polarization or infrared light. Whatever image the device outputs will just be plain old visible

@handlemonium

7 ай бұрын

@@Player-pj9kt Yes to our human senses the output would have to be through software that takes advantage of that data.

What excites me the most is the thought of using this tech in the next big space telescope.

@freethink

10 ай бұрын

We like the way you think. 👨‍🚀

A Series about Rebuilding our world from scratch.....using thousands of years of previous innovation. AKA, not from scratch at all.

Basically you can have a 4cm diameter lens on your smartphone, and throw your DSLR camera in the bin

@zhinkunakur4751

10 ай бұрын

i do not think thats what they can do , it thins but i do not believe aperature is a thing they can claim to have expanded

@VeganSemihCyprus33

10 ай бұрын

They are fooling and enslaving you with these gadgets 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

@chadx8269

2 ай бұрын

This is hype, to make a lens requires computational aperture synthesis which not talked about.

Never mind what this could mean for your smartphone (although that’s very cool)… Imagine what this could mean in the realm of lens exchange surgery. This would go far beyond “refractive lens exchange”, which I believe is currently our best technology for restoring clear vision. This could possibly, not only give you a perfect “correction” to vision…. but potentially could provide you with “an upgrade”.

Awesome! On a different topic... Is it that "each" view of a quantum entanglement pair severs the connection, therefore can only send a single binary, meaning 8 paired particles equals 8 bytes... and once all the particles are viewed, then there is no longer a way to quantum communicate? . Next question, if yes... considering there is actually quantum teleportation, why not always teleport an entangled particle through each "signaling" to keep the quantum communication going? . If able to teleport 2 particles through a single quantum entangled particle... can that then be made to provide constant electrical power from a power source from any distance... and can that also be used for traversing across space fueled from Earth* (*etc)?

(Sept 2023) - Thanks for a carefully edited video to describe something OPTICALLY EPIC & AWESOME!! It's been said, "The Future is OPTICS." I agree after seeing this video.

New sub 🔥🔥

There are a lot of posts that I have probably not read but has there been any mention of using the lens on human eyes and possibilities for eyesight issues.

Around 4:50 you mention vacuum tube transistors. Presumably we could also call transistors transistor vacuum tubes? The two devices are very similar in function, but are entirely different in construction.

This video didn't explain enough. So the micro lens bends the light but how do they all co-operate to form the image?

The lenses we have now will never go away, retro will always be popular, look at the boom in film cameras. More likely is cars won't have glass windows, instead the outside will have cameras and the inside will be all screens, making weather and darkness go away, with rear view black mirrors.

Portable, multi spectral imaging has been a dream of mine too, specifically seeing in complete dark, itentifying the material a thing is made from, see through vegetation or walls etc ... quite magical; but which may also restrict its uses to law enforcers and military (?). Unless its released under licence widely before the law catches up.

@whatelseison8970

9 ай бұрын

Pry the IR filter off a webcam and replace it with a vis cut filter and hey presto, night vision. strip the foil off a CDR and take a picture of a candle or something through that. Boom spectroscopy on the cheap.

@Player-pj9kt

7 ай бұрын

The technology may become cheap so it kight readily be availbke to the average consumer

That with the comment about computing power was pretty good. We have more than we know what to do with... so we use it for frivilousness like Facebook. That said, this metalens would make it awful hard to spoof fingerprints or face-sighted cameras. So, you can have top security on a phone to safeguard your frivilous (and useful) apps.

"Collapsed lenses" and "multilenses" (like in insect's compound eye) are nothing new, but if they can be produced cheap and in many easily programmed forms, it could be new important branch of mictotechnology and optics.

Amazing!

Can you make nightglasses? Night vision glasses with thin lenses? Or UV glasses etc.? Or lenses that magnify motion so that you can respond quicker in reaction time?

Could this be used for VR Glasses? Sounds primising.

That Zuckerberg joke was slick.

Exciting stuff

Can it change the aperture?

If you have a pure clear vision of something, you can always downscale it, distort it or morph it to simulate whatever imperfect lenses can do - eg. apply a fish eye distortion transform to simulate fish eye lenses.

Any way to use this to detect clear-air turbulence? Low cost plane detection for General Aviation?

Does Apple vision pro also use this technology?

I like the unknown part of the impact this technology will have. Smartphone is a platform for individuals, it is amazing how it will continue to develop with new technologies.

Put these "tricorders" on our glasses directly !

I want to know whether it will beneficial for DSLR ? When will camera industry adopt it?

this would be perfect for headsets with the metaverse. the branding is even there already.

Fiber optic plus this. So many possibilities for this light lens.