Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Holography

Synthetic aperture enhances virtual reality displays

Nature Photonics volume 19, pages 781–782 (2025)Cite this article

Subjects

The clever combination of waveguide optics and AI-driven algorithms delivers a much greater eyebox volume and vivid holographic 3D scenes.

Access through your institution
Buy or subscribe

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Access through your institution

Buy this article

  • Purchase on SpringerLink
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: Benefits of implicit neural representation for waveguide propagation of light.

References

  1. Choi, S., Jang, C., Lanman, D. & Wetzstein, G. Nat. Photon. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-025-01718-w (2025).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Gopakumar, M. et al. Nature 629, 791–797 (2024).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. Yu, H., Lee, K., Park, J. & Park, Y. Nat. Photon. 11, 186–192 (2017).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Park, J., Lee, K. & Park, Y. Nat. Commun. 10, 1304 (2019).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. Kuo, G., Waller, L., Ng, R. & Maimone, A. ACM Trans. Graph. 39, 61–66 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Tseng, E. et al. Nat. Commun. 15, 2907 (2024).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. Chakravarthula, P., Tseng, E., Srivastava, T., Fuchs, H. & Heide, F. ACM Trans. Graph. (TOG) 39, 1–18 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Peng, Y., Choi, S., Padmanaban, N. & Wetzstein, G. ACM Trans. Graph. 39, 1–14 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Jang, C., Bang, K., Chae, M., Lee, B. & Lanman, D. Nat. Commun. 15, 66 (2024).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. Mildenhall, B. et al. Commun. ACM 65, 99–106 (2021).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

    Hyeonseung Yu

  2. Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Minwook Kim & YongKeun Park

  3. Tomocube Inc., Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Minwook Kim & YongKeun Park

Authors
  1. Hyeonseung Yu
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Minwook Kim
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

  3. YongKeun Park
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to YongKeun Park.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Yu, H., Kim, M. & Park, Y. Synthetic aperture enhances virtual reality displays. Nat. Photon. 19, 781–782 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-025-01721-1

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-025-01721-1

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing