03 - 06 June, 2024
Mec Paestum Hotel
Capaccio Paestum, Italy
Events
Bernard Kress
Plenary: How Vision Comfort Requirements and 3D Cues are Defining Next Generation Display Architectures for All-day-use Smart Glasses
Abstract is not available.
About the Speaker
Bernard has been involved in optics and photonics for the past 25 years as an associate professor, researcher and engineering director – starting in academia before moving to entrepreneurship and start-ups and eventually to large multinational corporations. He worked on product development in the fields of optical computing, optical telecom, optical data storage, optical anti-counterfeiting, industrial optical sensors and more recently in immersive displays for augmented and mixed reality systems. Bernard published several books, is listed as principal inventor on close to 100 patents worldwide and wrote a few hundred papers on these topics.
He was the 2023 President of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He also chairs various SPIE conferences including the SPIE AR/VR/MR, co-located with Photonics West, and the SPIE Digital Optical Technologies, co-located with Laser Munich. He is a short course instructor on micro-optics and ARVR displays and hosts the monthly online SPIE AR|VR|MR fireside chats.
Bernard held positions at Google [X] Labs since 2010 (Google Glass) and Microsoft since 2015 (HoloLens). Since 2021 he is the Director for XR engineering at Google in Mountain View, California, USA.
