With roots firmly established by the pioneering Microsoft Xbox Kinect gaming console, advanced 3D sensing technology has quickly become an elemental facet of modern society. Underpinning this new era of 3D expansion are the core innovations that empower safe, accurate, and efficient use of 3D sensing on a massive global scale.
High volume components offered by VIAVI, including low angle shift 3D sensing filters and eye-safe engineered diffusers, support cutting-edge 3D sensing processes with robust, repeatable optical solutions that enable the advancing wave of diverse 3D applications.
How VIAVI is Advancing the 3D Sensing Industry
Improvements to 3D sensing components and software have quickly moved ToF and structured light applications from niche markets into a broad range of consumer, industrial, and logistical applications.
Mobile device facial recognition, once conceived as a security enhancement, has now enabled user-created avatars and augmented reality using world facing 3D sensing that underscores the unlimited creative potential. At the same time, advancements in LiDAR continue to move autonomous vehicles from the drawing board to the roadway. This rapid expansion from gaming and consumer electronics into multiple industry verticals is expected to create a $6.5 billion 3D sensing market globally by 2025.
With an unparalleled track record for high volume production of patent-protected, low angle shift filters with exceptional signal-to-noise performance and high-transmission light shaping optics, including engineered diffusers, VIAVI is uniquely poised to meet the demands of the burgeoning 3D sensing ecosystem.
Since playing a pivotal role in the development of the groundbreaking Microsoft Kinect gaming console, VIAVI has maintained an unwavering commitment to innovation and cost of quality. Combined with over 70 years of industry experience, this has resulted in the advanced processes and streamlined supply chain performance that support the industry’s best 3D sensing component technology.