2017

BMW demonstrates HoloActive Touch, a free-floating virtual projected control system, at CES. API invests $8.5 million in North American Centre of Packaging Excellence in Lawrence, Kansas.

2016

Pre-production version of Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality (MR) head-mounted display smart glasses ships. MR devices often use the term ‘hologram’ to describe the heightened visual reality they provide and use diffractive optics as a waveguide in...

2015

WiMi Hologram Cloud, provider of augmented reality based holographic products, founded in Beijing, China. By March 2021, the company had raised $83.8 million in funding.

2014

Advanced Track and Trace (ATT) and Andrews & Wykeham develop HoloSeal, a holographic version of ATT’s anti-copy and batch serialisation capable Seal Vector, on holograms. HoMAI renamed as Authentication Solution Providers’ Association...

2013

First release of Google Glass augmented reality (AR) headset which superimposes a computer-generated image onto a user’s actual view of the real world. AR devices often use the term ‘hologram’ to describe the heightened visual reality they provide....