Light Field Lab embeds a hologram in a 3D space.
Light Field Lab embeds a hologram in a 3D space.
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Light Field Lab shows off SolidLight high-res holographic display

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 9 min

We’re living in a world of 2D displays, and Light Field Lab is trying to fix that by letting us escape from that world. The Silicon Valley startup showed off its latest holographic display platform, dubbed SolidLight, and the company said it is the highest-resolution holographic display ever designed.

And yes, the little chameleon that I saw floating in the air looked a lot better than the pseudo-hologram of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars movie. While it’s not hard to beat the vision of holograms in a movie from 1977, it has taken an extraordinarily long time to create real holograms that look good. And Jon Karafin, CEO of Light Field Lab, helped me understand why.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.