Brelyon Unveils the World’s First Monitor with Programmable Depth
Brelyon, an MIT spin-off innovating in the computational display space, announced Ultra Reality™ Extend, an immersive display line that renders virtual images in multiple depths. As the first commercial multi-focal monitor, the Extend model offers multi-depth programmability for information overlay, allowing users to see pictures from 0.7 meters to as far as 2.5 meters of depth virtually rendered behind the monitor; organizing various data streams at different depth layers, or triggering focal cues to induce an ultra immersive experience akin to looking out through a window.
“Building on the success of our Ultra Reality™ product, we’re taking advantage of new GPU capabilities to process light and video signals inside our display platforms,” said Barmak Heshmat, CEO of Brelyon. “We are thinking beyond headsets and glasses, where we can leverage GPU capabilities to do real-time driving of higher-bandwidth display interfaces. Maturing the industry from the age of photorealism to the age of photon realism, and designed for high-performance applications such as simulation and training, control centers, and teleoperations, Ultra Reality™ Extend is a new platform for AI and light to impact enterprise visualization, navigation, and computer interaction.”
AI’s Fast Advancement in Video Generation is Unlocking New Modalities of Displays
AI’s rapid advancement in video processing is unlocking new display modalities. While AI has long been used for image enhancement, such as HDR conversion and upscaling, we’re now at an inflection point. Advanced hardware and software capabilities enable the transformation of lower-dimensional streams into multiple higher-dimensional streams, creating high-performance visual portals.
The Ultra Reality™ Extend platform, with its software and processing capabilities (Brelyon Visual Engine), is designed to leverage these advancements. It utilizes transformers to automatically assign depth bits to video content in real-time, generate depth effects, and augment annotations within the user’s field of view, enabling multi-focal experiences.
Whether handling sensitive data for operators or creating immersive simulations for training, AI enables the addition of an information layer augmented to existing data. AI-enabled features, such as auto-annotation and auto-highlighting, further empower users to navigate operational environments effectively without interrupting the primary video stream.
Ultra Reality Extend is the world’s first multi-focal monitor, which utilizes AI to convert and generate its content. The experience is similar to looking out of windows, where different layers of depth appear at varying distances.
Uncompromising Visual Performance and Immersion
Ultra Reality™ Extend runs like an 8K display (4K, 60Hz with 1 bit of monocular depth), delivering stunning visuals. Building on Brelyon’s partnerships with UDC and LG, the display features OLED-based, curved 2D virtual images, with the most extensive screen size stretching to 122 inches and extending 2.5 meters deep, viewable through a 30-inch frame. Since the depth allows images to be seen optically from farther away, the display can sit closer to the viewer, providing an even larger field of view.