VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award

Wetzstein's research in the development of next-generation computational imaging, computational displays, and neural rendering systems has a wide range of applications in the fields of virtual and augmented reality, computer graphics, computer vision, microscopy, human-computer interaction, scientific imaging, health, and remote sensing.His research has, among other things, contributed to the development of near-eye displays that support perceptually important focus cues through varifocal, light field, and holographic display architectures.His lab has developed near-eye gaze tracking systems based on emerging event sensors that can achieve update rates of over 10 kHz with equivalent accuracy to high-end commercial desktop-mounted systems.Dr. Wetzstein's research has explored novel approaches to prescription correction, including autofocal eyeglasses for presbyopia correction that offer significant advantages over current progressive lenses as well as visioncorrecting direct-view displays.His research introduced a novel, thin form-factor wide-field-of-view glasses-free autostereoscopic "tensor" display built using stacks of time-multiplexed, backlit, light-attenuating LCD panels.He has led the development of new algorithms for computer-generated holography, enabling highquality, 3D, full-color holographic image synthesis in realtime ("neural holography") along with holographic near-eye display architectures with ultra-thin device form factors.Dr. Wetzstein co-founded two startup companies, Raxium and Zinn Labs, to accelerate the development of core technology of