According to reports, the US ultra-optical manufacturer Metalenz recently announced the launch of a miniature 3D sensor PolarEyes based on optical metasurface, which is expected to be released in the second quarter of this year.
It is understood that Metalenz was founded in 2017, and it received $10 million in Series A financing in February last year, led by 3M, Intel and other companies. At the same time, Metalenz is also working with manufacturers such as ST To scale up production.
It is reported that PolarEyes uses polarization technology to give camera-based imaging equipment a new sensing method, the biggest highlight of the technology is to reduce the cost and size of polarized light cameras, the company hopes to introduce this technology into the field of security.
PolarEyes is characterized by low cost, sensitivity, small size, the use of ultra-thin flat lenses, can collect the traditional camera lost polarized light information, through this information to analyze, can also detect air quality, or based on the smartphone APP to detect the user's health care.
In addition, PolarEyes can be integrated into skin detection devices, robots, cars, laptops, mobile phones and more. Usually, polarized light cameras are used in medical, industrial and other professional scenes, the equipment cost is expensive and huge, in contrast, PolarEyes can be built into the front camera of the mobile phone, its structure is claimed to be 1000 times smaller than human hair.
Robert Devlin, CEO of Metalenz, said: "This is a 3D sensing product that will be used in consumer devices starting in the second quarter of this year, and we can verify that the new sensors are changing the machine vision system of consumer devices including VR/AR headsets." ”