The German glass pioneer ZEISS is exhibiting its Multifunctional Smart Glass technology at CES 2024. This smart glass tech has a wide range of applications, especially for smart homes. The company has realized a patent-protected platform using different micro-optical structures and holographic optical elements which makes it possible to add functions like lighting, projection, filters, and detection onto transparent surfaces.
This holographic functionality can turn any glass surface like the windows of your home into an on-demand screen for communications. Imagine your beach house window turning into a touchscreen – it’s like stepping into the Iron Man era.
There are more possibilities, like making 3D operating elements such as switches or controllers on black panel surfaces using holographics. These floating switches appear only when they are needed and can be activated by voice command or gesture control.
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Furthermore, you can put a transparent camera with facial recognition on a front door glass pane, which can be useful for home security. ZEISS Multifunctional Smart Glass technology can do more in a smart home. It can be used for interior lighting that is realized through special holographic decoupling elements in exterior glass, which makes the window panes light up. These glass surfaces can also generate energy. The micro-optical layer in the window pane absorbs incident sunlight and transmits it in concentrated form to a solar cell.
This glass tech can be used in different smart home applications in the home like indoor and outdoor surveillance tasks, video telephony on window and mirror surfaces, adaptive sunlight filters, etc. The company is sharing its holographic technology with everyone, and we might see lots of its products this year.
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