PxE Holographic Imaging to debut 3D camera at CES 2025

PxE’s technology enables 3D imaging on standard 2D digital cameras — from smartphones, laptops, cars and other camera-based systems — and turns them into 3D cameras that seamlessly merge the physical and digital world. A CES 2025 Innovation Awards honouree, PxE Holographic Imaging, will showcase its Holographic RGB-IR-Depth Camera technology in Las Vegas from January 5 - 10, 2025.

Whether using film photography or digital cameras, the fundamental physics of photography has remained virtually unchanged since its advent in the 1880s. Scientists and engineers have tried to achieve holographic imaging with digital cameras for decades. Still, no one has realised it to date, without degrading image quality or relying on cost-prohibitive technology such as lasers — until now. PxE’s Holographic RGB-IR-Depth Camera ushers in one of the most meaningful transformations in imaging since the invention of film photography- enabling 2D colour, infrared and depth images per frame and on a single sensor. PxE’s technology not only has the potential to replace all existing 2D cameras on the market; it can also revolutionise how consumers and machines experience and capture the world through their everyday devices.

“Our RGB-IR-Depth Camera reduces the size and number of sensors needed along with the cost and complexity associated with today’s perception solutions,” added PxE Holographic Imaging CEO and co-founder Yoav Berlatzky. “We imagine a world where our 3D camera technology is ubiquitous: embedded in all cars with autonomous driving and obstacle avoidance features, used by consumers as facial ID to unlock their smartphone or laptop, to make payments via banking or shopping apps, or used for robotic navigation through advanced machine vision systems.”

How PxE’s holographic RGB-IR-depth camera works

PxE’s 3D imaging technology leverages the wave-like nature of light to simultaneously capture colour, infrared and depth while improving the light sensitivity of cameras by 4x. The technology captures a light’s wavefront — its wavelength and curvature — to generate a “white light hologram” and then simultaneously decodes the hologram to output colour, infrared and depth images without degrading image resolution. The result is an incredibly clear, radically upgraded three-dimensional image alongside a high-quality 2D colour image and infrared image, all from a single frame and sensor. Utilising its hardware and software, PxE upgrades standard 2D cameras into a multi-functional 3D system while maintaining the size, cost structure and image quality of standard cameras.

The PxE Holographic RGB-IR-Depth camera is not only multi-functional, it also addresses limitations of perception solutions that have been unsolved until now. For example, 2D cameras have inherent limitations on low-light performance. The Holographic RGB-IR-Depth camera dramatically improves upon the status quo, offering enhanced performance of cameras in the dark. It enhances the light sensitivity of cameras by transmitting 100% of the available light to the sensor (compared to 25% in 2D cameras), providing much better low-light performance than today’s cameras. Additionally, it can provide natively-fused colour and depth images, mitigating synchronisation issues and enabling a single line-of-sight.

“Today’s ever-connected, AI-driven world demands more and more from the underlying perception-based hardware systems they utilise, which are essentially the ‘eyes’ of the system — whether they’re used to drive our cars or keep people safe on factory floors. By enabling high-resolution images and accurate depth maps from a single sensor, PxE facilitates a safer world and is available for all machine vision systems and applications and at all price points,” said Yanir Hainick, Chief Technology Officer, PxE Holographic Imaging.

PxE’s RGB-IR-Depth Camera technology will be sold to OEMs for use inside their devices — smartphones, laptops, cars, drones, robots, security, precision imaging equipment, and more.