Preface
With the vision of becoming a pioneer in wafer-level optics and the mission of building an international first-class wafer-level optics IDM closed loop, KunYou Optoelectronics is determined to help kick off the consumer photonics with innovative designs and revolutionary processes. In the field of innovative optical applications, the company has built up three major product series of 3D imaging and machine vision, new augmented reality (AR) display, and automotive and LIDAR, which have been successfully introduced to international and domestic first-tier customers.
Since the company's establishment, as an important display channel to customers and the market, KUNYU Optronics regularly releases the company's product progress to the market through important exhibitions such as the Optical Expo, and maintains close communication with the market. 18 months ago, after meeting with partners and customers at the Optical Expo, the company has maintained a high rate of expansion and intense R&D iterations in the year 2022, even in the midst of the pressure of the current international economic environment. R&D iterations, KunYou Optronics continues to progress and continue to lead the market in each product sequence. The company was scheduled for December 7 at the Shenzhen Optical Expo with a number of newer results, & ldquo; black technology & rdquo; meet with you, in view of this year's Optical Expo canceled, the current year changed to the end of the year online release. This article introduces the new augmented reality (AR) product sequence of the three major product sequences.
In 2022, the meta-universe topic continues to be hot, and the investment in the meta-universe field continues to grow. Up to now, more than 40 dedicated meta-universe terminal devices have been released this year, including more than 20 AR terminals and more than ten VR terminals. However, it is mainly the VR equipment that occupies the market share of the consumer side. the AR industry is still mainly used in the enterprise market because of the relatively late start of the industry and the technology is moving towards maturity. But looking at the development of VR technology, it is still very meaningful for AR. The thinner and lighter Pancake optical solution has replaced the traditional Fresnel solution, realizing higher optical resolution and better display effects, which has also brought about a surge in consumer sales. This also makes the AR display module towards thinner and lighter with better optical performance direction of development becomes inevitable, and ultimately ignite the consumer market.
AR Product Matrix
In the face of diverse application scenarios and market demand, through the insight of the industry and the profound summary of many customers, KunYou Optronics hopes to provide customers with targeted AR solutions from the two dimensions of waveguide thinness and optical performance. Based on these two dimensions, KunYou's AR products are currently divided into four product positioning: QiuShui, Easy, FuYao, and MengDie, which builds a relatively complete AR optical waveguide product matrix. Through long-term and in-depth cooperation with a series of partners, especially in the recent past, we have realized a number of breakthroughs in the core technology of AR display, part of which breaks the international indicators of the industry.
Product Matrix
Product List
Autumn Water Series:
Qiushui series focuses on AR diffractive optical waveguide with resin substrate. Through in-depth cooperation with material manufacturers and close communication with the needs of sports and outdoor customers, compared with the traditional glass substrate, KunYou Qiushui series resin substrate has a price advantage, and is not fragile and has high reliability. In addition, the density of resin material is only one-third to one-quarter of glass, which greatly reduces the weight of the waveguide, and the wearing experience is closer to that of ordinary glasses, which is light and comfortable, and can be applied to a variety of sporty places, and is extremely cost-effective for monochromatic applications based on information prompts.
Getaway Series (Generation II):
The new Easy Series second generation waveguide adopts a single piece of monochrome optical design, the efficiency can also reach 450nit/lm. high uniformity also makes this series of waveguide in monochrome display effect performance is more stable, is the business type of monochrome information prompting scene of the right choice.
Getaway Series - Ultra Bright Edition:
As one of the released & ldquo;black technology & rdquo;, after more than 18 months of in-depth cooperation with strategic partner Shanghai Huixi, after many rounds of iteration, the free series of special optimized version of the high brightness diffraction light waveguide module, but also successfully lit successfully. In addition to fully immersive VR equipment, the complex outdoor lighting environment and light conditions, especially during the daytime glare, has always been the focus of the display technology from design to application to overcome the key points and difficulties. For AR waveguide, in order to realize outdoor applications, the brightness of the eye should be at least 1000nits or more, and most of the AR solutions on the market are far from being able to meet it. And KunYou's high-brightness module has a measured eye brightness of 10,000nits, with an efficiency of up to 20,000nit/w (for optical display modules), which is completely fearless of bright light! No mistake! That is 20,000 nits per watt!
Outdoor photo effect
The Monty Python series:
Dream Butterfly series is a high-end customized series of AR product matrix, which has overcome the industry's technical difficulties of single-piece full-color, and the weight, thickness, and performance of the optical waveguide have reached the industry's leading level in all aspects, taking into account the thinness and lightness as well as excellent optical performance.
Dream Butterfly Series - Ultra Uniform Edition:
Among them, on the basis of the standard products of Mengdiao series, through the special optimization of design and process, the uniformity is specially optimized while other indexes are maintained in high specifications, and the measured uniformity reaches 40%, which is ahead of the similar level in the industry.
Rotary Series (Generation II):
The new Fuyao second-generation diffractive waveguide adopts the form of double-sheet stacking to bring customers better full-color display effect, with an efficiency as high as 600nit/lm! Better optical performance supports higher color reproduction and more colorful display content, providing full-color interactive experience and reliable hardware support for more and more diversified meta-universe display applications.
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AR optical waveguide sequence has now built a complete closed-loop, accepting full customization of the above series, and can be based on the company's own built international first-class wafer-level optical IDM closed-loop, according to the customer's requirements, targeted, high-speed full end-to-end optimization of specific indicators, costs and so on. At present, KunYou's AR optical waveguide sequence has been successfully imported to many famous customers, including well-known U.S. Internet companies, a number of China's first-tier terminals, first-tier Internet companies, and unicorns in the AR field.
Introduction of KunYou Optoelectronics Co.
North Ocean Photonics is a high-tech enterprise focusing on wafer-level optics and optical integration, headquartered in Shanghai, China. The company is composed of top international and domestic scholars in the field of optoelectronics and industry veterans with many years of experience in the optoelectronics industry. Relying on its own deep technical accumulation and high-precision manufacturing process, KunYou Photonics is committed to exploring the realization and innovative applications of cutting-edge photonics and optoelectronics through the innovative idea of integrating integrated optics and integrated circuits to help China bend the curve in the field of next-generation photonics science and technology, and to kick off the prelude of consumer photonics.
The core R&D team and management of KunYou Optoelectronics includes professors and doctors from international and domestic famous optoelectronic institutes; executives from international and domestic famous enterprises; and national science and technology progress awards. The company's shareholders include international and domestic well-known listed companies, industrial capital, China's mainstream financial institutions, domestic large-scale state-owned investment platforms, as well as many first-tier funds, etc., with a total financing amount of nearly one billion yuan. In recent years, the company has won more than 30 awards in various related fields, including the 2019 National Investment Cases in Advanced Manufacturing, the 2020 Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Conference Leader of Excellence Award, the 2021 China AR Industry Honor Roll, the Future Star-2022 Emerging 100, the 2022 China AR 50, the 2022 Deloitte's Stars of Tomorrow, and the National First Prize of the China Central Enterprises Tactile Star Competition.
In order to create an industry-leading technology closed loop and further seize the international technology high point, as a strategic emerging key project in Shanghai, the company invested hundreds of millions of RMB in 2021 to formally build the KunYou Shanghai Lingang Base. The company has built an international first-class industry standard of nearly 10,000 square feet of ultra-clean room and hardware platform, quality control and information technology software platform, as well as complete team building, so as to realize a closed-loop IDM system from R & D and design, mastering, mass production, quality control and testing. We have also passed the stringent factory inspection and quality control certification of international first-tier customers, and become one of the few companies in the world that have realized more than 10KK-class product shipments in the field of wafer-level optics. The company has hundreds of patents and inventions, including more than a hundred domestic patents, and more than ten PCT and U.S. patents and overseas patents, establishing a closed loop of intellectual property rights. In the field of innovative optical applications, we have built up three major product series, including 3D imaging and machine vision, new augmented reality (AR) display, automotive and LIDAR, which have been successfully introduced to international and domestic first-tier customers.
1. 3D imaging and machine vision. Since 2019, the Company has been in continuous mass production in the flagships of first-tier cell phones around the world;
2. AR display diffractive optical waveguide. At present, KunYou's AR optical waveguide sequence has been successfully imported into many famous customers including well-known US internet companies, several Chinese first-tier terminals, first-tier internet companies, and unicorns in the AR field of whole machine;
3. Vehicle and LiDAR. The related products will complete the car factory certification in 2021, and successfully imported into the top three head new energy models in China in 2022, and become one of the few related companies in the segment that have passed the 16949 vehicle specification certification.
KunYou Optronics Shanghai Lingang R&D and production base
In the next 5 years, with the outbreak of the meta-universe concept and the development of smart driving and cloud computing, wafer-level optical components will be increasingly used in 3D vision, AR optical waveguide, car radar and other fields, leading the future perception upgrade and next-generation interaction revolution. KunYou Optronics will also be based on micro-nano optics and become the pioneer of wafer-level optics.
