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Technology News | December 28, 2022

By Peter Clarke

VoxelSensors (Brussels, Belgium), a startup founded successful March 2020, is acceptable to present sensor exertion for 3D imaginativeness alongside strategical spouse OQmented astatine CES, Las Vegas.

VoxelSensors calls its exertion Switching Pixels and claims it volition connection milliwatt powerfulness consumption, latencies of the bid of nanoseconds and a simplified information path. The sensor architecture provides an asynchronous and event-driven means of tracking an progressive airy root oregon pattern. Instead of acquiring frames, each pixel wrong the sensor array lone generates an lawsuit upon detecting progressive airy signals.

The institution reckons the exertion is good suited to glasses that necessitate low-
power, low-latency cognition systems for tasks specified arsenic SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), anchoring and enactment utilizing gestures oregon controllers.

VoxelSensors reports the sequential operation of 3D accusation astatine a 100MHz update complaint – 10ns per update – and with an vigor fund of 6 photons per voxel for integration into reliable 3D perception.

Johannes Peeters, CEO and co-founder of VoxelSensors, said: “As VoxelSensors CEO, I wanted to physique exertion that could revolutionize 3D cognition portion delivering a affirmative societal impact. XR/AR/MR/VR and related applications let the satellite to blend the carnal and integer worlds.”

The company’s founding squad antecedently developed the CMOS CAPD pixel and successfully spun-out a ToF sensor institution called Optrima NV from VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Optrima was acquired by SoftKinetic successful 2011, which successful crook was acquired by Sony Corp. successful 2015.

Collaboration

VoxelSensors has besides announced a strategical concern with OQmented GmbH (Itzehoe, Germany) connected laser-scanning to complement its Switching Pixels.

OQmented was founded successful 2018 arsenic a spin-out from Fraunhofer Institute, to bring bubble MEMS exertion to market. OQmented claims its MEMS scanners execute the highest show successful presumption of tract of view, instrumentality size, durability, vigor consumption, sensing, and resolution.

The collaboration betwixt VoxelSensors and OQmented focuses connected strategy integration and the commercialization of a high-performance 3D cognition strategy for AR/VR/MR and XR devices.

In opposition to raster scanning – which works enactment by enactment to implicit a framework – Lissajous trajectories that tin beryllium provided by OQmented bubble MEMS scan faster and are created much powerfulness efficiently. They tin seizure implicit scenes and accelerated movements successful overmuch little clip and necessitate little information processing.

“The concern with VoxelSensors is simply a large accidental to unlock the imaginable of Lissajous laser beam scanning for 3D cognition successful lightweight Augmented Reality glasses,” said Ulrich Hofmann, co-CEO/CTO and co-founder of OQmented.