# Light Field Lab, Inc.

> Light Field Lab is a San Jose deep-tech company building SolidLight, a holographic display platform that projects three-dimensional objects into open space with no glasses, headsets, or eyewear required. Founded in 2017 by three veterans of the light-field camera company Lytro, it assembles self-emissive, bezel-less panels into modular video walls dense enough - roughly 10 billion pixels per square meter - to form images the eye reads as physically real. Backed by $85M including a $50M Series B with Bill Gates' Gates Frontier, Corning, LG, NCSOFT, and Samsung, and named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2022, the company is now productizing SolidLight for enterprise, entertainment, and public-display markets.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** San Jose, California, United States
- **Founders:** Jon Karafin (Co-founder & CEO), Brendan Bevensee (Co-founder & CTO), Ed Ibe (Co-founder & VP of Engineering)
- **Team size:** ~19 employees (small deep-tech team)
- **Products:** SolidLight Surface, SolidLight Volumetric, SolidLight Platform / SDK
- **Notable:** SolidLight named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2022, Raised $85M total, including a $50M Series B (2023), Attracted investment from Bill Gates' Gates Frontier, Corning, LG, Samsung, Verizon, and Bosch

## Products & services

- **SolidLight Surface** — Modular, self-emissive, bezel-less holographic display panels that tile into video walls dense enough (~10 billion pixels per square meter) to form solid-looking objects in front of the display. Each 28-inch panel contributes roughly 2.5 billion pixels.
- **SolidLight Volumetric** — A system driven by a single computer that forms multiple image planes within a holographic volume, aimed at interactive and object-in-space applications.
- **SolidLight Platform / SDK** — The content pipeline and tools for creating, encoding, and rendering holographic content across SolidLight hardware configurations.

## Achievements

- SolidLight named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2022
- Raised $85M total, including a $50M Series B (2023)
- Attracted investment from Bill Gates' Gates Frontier, Corning, LG, Samsung, Verizon, and Bosch
- Demonstrated glasses-free holograms that occlude real-world objects behind them
- Described the highest-resolution holographic display platform ever designed, at billions of pixels per panel

## Latest updates

- **2023-02** — Closed $50M Series B led by NCSOFT with Corning, Gates Frontier, LG Tech Ventures, and OTOY to scale SolidLight manufacturing.
- **2024-12** — Partnered with the SETI Institute to demonstrate an interactive holographic experience and advance SolidLight for immersive applications.
- **2025** — Began targeting delivery of SolidLight Volumetric systems and lower-bandwidth versions of the technology to market.

## Links

- Website: https://lightfieldlab.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/light-field-lab-inc.
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/lightfieldlab
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/lightfieldlab/

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