Ostendo Technologies

Ostendo Technologies, located in Carlsbad, California, between San Diego and Los Angeles, has designed the Quantum Photonic Imager (QPI®) platform. This platform is purpose-built to create next-generation devices for consumer, enterprise, and defense applications, including augmented reality glasses, the ‘metaverse,’ and light field holographic displays. The QPI® platform fully integrates multiple existing functions such as display, optical collimator, image processor, and decompression code, which reduces size and cost. Ostendo’s wearable display system, vuOS™, enables concurrent visual interfaces between multiple computing platforms like smartphones, tablets, PCs, game boxes, and media streaming boxes. The wearable display reference design features a diagonal field of view up to 150°, a lens size of 50mm x 35mm, and brightness greater than 5,000 cd/m2. The QPI® micro display includes full-color ≤ 10µm µLED with single aperture micro-scale pixels and collimated light at the source, requiring fewer and simpler external optics. The QPI® technology offers up to 40k full-color pixels per mm², 32x less volume, a 5 nano-second response time, up to 3x larger field of view, and 10x more brightness. This technology is patent-protected and reflects expertise in electron-photon energy transfer through bandgap tuning and matching. The QPI® technology enables immersive and volumetric display aspects needed for wearable near-eye displays and holographic Light Field Displays. It also allows for over-the-air software upgrades to unlock high-spec visual features and enhance existing ones via a cloud processor. The QPI® specifications include an image diagonal of 7.34 mm (0.29”), pixel pitch of 10 μm nHD and 5 μm HD, image resolution of 640 × 360 nHD and 1280 × 720 HD, and a lifetime of over 100,000 hours. Additionally, the technology offers a dynamic color gamut for improved efficiency and 1,800+ views in direct view light field display, uses 78% of the power for peak performance, and provides 200x more connections per color.