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Sending a little shout out to all of our best friends on international dog day. 🩷 #internationaldogday #dogs #happyinternationaldogday
Sending a little shout out to all of our best friends on international dog day. 🩷 #internationaldogday #dogs #happyinternationaldogday
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Wonderful to meet you Mahir! Enjoy Optics Photonics!
Wonderful to meet you Mahir! Enjoy Optics Photonics!
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Hommage de la part du Prof. Jacques Marescaux et des équipes de l’IRCAD : Rendre hommage à Raymond Waydelich est une tâche délicate, tant sa vie et…
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Volunteer Experience
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SPIE President (2023), Board Member (2017-2019) and Fellow (2013)
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
- Present 33 years
Science and Technology
One of my main passion is to share my experience and excitement with my peers and students aiming to build a career in these fields.
I have the privilege to do so through various services to the SPIE:
Conference Chair:
- Digital Optical Technologies, colocated with Laser Munich (DOT2017, DOT2019, DOT2021, DOT2023)
- Digital Optical for Immersive Displays, Strasbourg (F) (PE2018 and PE2020)
- SPIE AR/VR/MR, SF, California, the premier event for head mounted displays (PW18…One of my main passion is to share my experience and excitement with my peers and students aiming to build a career in these fields.
I have the privilege to do so through various services to the SPIE:
Conference Chair:
- Digital Optical Technologies, colocated with Laser Munich (DOT2017, DOT2019, DOT2021, DOT2023)
- Digital Optical for Immersive Displays, Strasbourg (F) (PE2018 and PE2020)
- SPIE AR/VR/MR, SF, California, the premier event for head mounted displays (PW18, PW19, PW20, PW21,PW22,PW23).
https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/ar-vr-mr
Text book author:
Optical Architectures for Augmented, Virtual and Mixed reality headsets (02/2020)
https://spie.org/Publications/Book/2559303
Short course instructor:
- SC_1234: Introduction to VR, AR, MR and Smart Eyewear: Markets, Products and Use Cases.
- SC_1218: Optical Technologies and Architectures for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality HMDs
- SC1125: Design, Modeling and Fabrication Techniques for wafer scale Micro-optics.
https://spie.org/Documents/Courses/PW19-Course-Preview-lr.pdf -
Member of the editorial board for the Virtual reality Journal
Springer Nature
- Present 6 years 1 month
Science and Technology
The journal, founded in 1994, has a long-standing tradition of publishing original high-quality research and is a leading journal in the area, attracting submissions from across the world. The role of an Editorial Board Member is to support and promote the journal, with the aim of strengthening both the field of Virtual Reality and the journal's standing within it.
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Conference chair, technical committee member and journal submission reviewer
The Optical Society (OSA)
- Present 14 years 9 months
Science and Technology
AR/VR/MR conference at FiO19 (Frontiers in Optics) in Washington DC.
Various AR/VR/MR demo sessions (FiO and others).
Optics Express journal reviewer -
Journal reviewer
National Academy of Sciences
- Present 13 years 9 months
Science and Technology
Reviewer for the NAS in AR/VR/MR.
Publications
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Waveguide combiners for mixed reality headsets: a nanophotonics design perspective
Nanophotonics Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1, DeGruyter publisher
This paper is a review and analysis of the various implementation architectures of diffractive waveguide combiners for augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) headsets, and smart glasses. Extended reality (XR) is another acronym frequently used to refer to all variants across the MR spectrum. Such devices have the potential to revolutionize how we work, communicate, travel, learn, teach, shop, and are entertained. Already, market analysts show very optimistic expectations on return on…
This paper is a review and analysis of the various implementation architectures of diffractive waveguide combiners for augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) headsets, and smart glasses. Extended reality (XR) is another acronym frequently used to refer to all variants across the MR spectrum. Such devices have the potential to revolutionize how we work, communicate, travel, learn, teach, shop, and are entertained. Already, market analysts show very optimistic expectations on return on investment in MR, for both enterprise and consumer applications. Hardware architectures and technologies for AR and MR have made tremendous progress over the past five years, fueled by recent investment hype in start-ups and accelerated mergers and acquisitions by larger corporations. In order to meet such high market expectations, several challenges must be addressed: first, cementing primary use cases for each specific market segment and, second, achieving greater MR performance out of increasingly size-, weight-, cost- and power-constrained hardware. One such crucial component is the optical combiner. Combiners are often considered as critical optical elements in MR headsets, as they are the direct window to both the digital content and the real world for the user’s eyes.
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Optical Architectures for Augmented-, Virtual-, and Mixed-Reality Headsets
SPIE
This book is a timely review of the various optical architectures, display technologies, and building blocks for modern consumer, enterprise, and defense head-mounted displays for various applications, including smart glasses, smart eyewear, and virtual-reality, augmented-reality, and mixed-reality headsets. Special attention is paid to the facets of the human perception system and the need for a human-centric optical design process that allows for the most comfortable headset that does not…
This book is a timely review of the various optical architectures, display technologies, and building blocks for modern consumer, enterprise, and defense head-mounted displays for various applications, including smart glasses, smart eyewear, and virtual-reality, augmented-reality, and mixed-reality headsets. Special attention is paid to the facets of the human perception system and the need for a human-centric optical design process that allows for the most comfortable headset that does not compromise the user’s experience. Major challenges--from wearability and visual comfort to sensory and display immersion--must be overcome to meet market analyst expectations, and the book reviews the most appropriate optical technologies to address such challenges, as well as the latest product implementations.
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Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality
CRC Press
Chapter on Optical Technologies
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SCIEN talk Stanford: " From VR headsets to Smart Glasses and beyond"
Stanford University
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Book: Applied Digital Optics: from micro-optics to nano-photonics
John Wiley and Sons
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Photonics Applications for Aviation, Aerospace, Commercial, and Harsh Environments V
SPIE Press
Vol 9202 - 16 October 2014
55 papers (544) pages - ISBN: 9781628412291
Patents
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Display projector with non-uniform pixel resolution
Issued US 10,897,601
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Polarization based dynamic focusser
Issued US 10.890,768
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eye tracking systems and methods for near-to-eye display devices
Issued US 10,718,942
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Mitigating binocular rivalry in near-eye displays
Issued US 10,523,930
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Eye tracking systems and methods for near-eye-display (NED) devices
Issued US US10718942B2
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Reconfigurable optics for switching between near-to-eye display modes
Issued US US10747309B2
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Diffractive see-through display with hybrid-optical aberration compensation
Issued US US9341850B1
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Micro-display having non-planar image surface and head-mounted displays including same
Issued US US20170219824A1
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130229712A1/en?inventor=bernard kress&oq=bernard kress
Issued US US20130229712A1
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Intensity-based optical encoder using digital diffractive optic regions
Issued US US 8044339 B2
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Optical rotation counter
Issued US US 7751058 B2
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Out-of-round coder
Issued US US 7687766 B2
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Optical encoder with encoder member having one or more digital diffractive optic regions
Issued US US 7595480 B2
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Optical encoder with diffractive encoder member
Issued US US 7566863 B2
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Method for determining the position of a first moving component relatively to a second component and device for applying said method
Issued US US 7538312 B2
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High Resolution position coder
Issued US US 20080074672 A1
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Optical angular encoder with detection of eccentricity
Issued EU EP 1862771 A1
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Codeur optique de rotation multitour
Issued EU EP 1862774 A1
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System for securing by diffractively digitally encoding optical discs
Issued EU WO 2007065995 A1
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Diffractive lens with gratings modified to offset effects caused by holding the lens at an angle with respect to a light source
Issued US US 6466371 B1
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Dual focus lens with extended depth of focus
Issued US US 6330118 B1
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Lens and related method of use and formation
Issued EU EP 1120669 A2
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Diffractive optical system with synthetic opening and laser cutting device incorporating this system
Issued US US 6236509 B1
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Aperture-synthesis diffractive optical device and laser cutting device comprising same
Issued EU EP 0898726 B1
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Shaping of light beams used in particulate counting appliances
Issued US US 5730941 A
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Device for optical inspection of a fluid, especially for hematological analysis
Issued EU EP 0744613 A1
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Cascading optics in optical combiners of head mounted displays
Filed US WO 2014126692 A1
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See-through near-to-eye display with eye prescription
Filed US WO 2014120388 A1
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Sandwiched diffractive optical combiner
Filed US US 20130229712 A1
Honors & Awards
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elected to The Photonics 100, the 100 most innovative people in optics and photonics 2022.
ElectroOptics magazine
The Photonics100 is a passion project that has a simple ambition: to spotlight the often unsung heroes at the cutting edge of our industry – Chief Technical Officers, Heads of R&D, Senior Engineers, research leaders, entrepreneurs and others – and tell their stories in a dynamic and, yes, entirely selective new way. https://www.electrooptics.com/thephotonics100
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Microsoft’s Bernard Kress elected to the SPIE presidential chain
SPIE The International Society for Optics and Photonics
https://www.spie.org/news/microsofts-bernard-kress-elected-to-spie-presidential-chain?SSO=1
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — SPIE Fellow Bernard Kress, Partner Optical Architect on the HoloLens Team at Microsoft Corp., and formerly Principal Optical Architect at Google X, has been elected to serve as the 2021 Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. With his election, Kress joins the SPIE presidential chain, and will serve as President-Elect in 2022 and as the…https://www.spie.org/news/microsofts-bernard-kress-elected-to-spie-presidential-chain?SSO=1
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — SPIE Fellow Bernard Kress, Partner Optical Architect on the HoloLens Team at Microsoft Corp., and formerly Principal Optical Architect at Google X, has been elected to serve as the 2021 Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. With his election, Kress joins the SPIE presidential chain, and will serve as President-Elect in 2022 and as the Society's President in 2023. -
Member of the Board of Directors of the SPIE
SPIE
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International Year of Light opening ceremony at UNESCO Paris
UNESCO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZj1sTLtKRM
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Fellow of the SPIE
SPIE (Society for Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineering)
For continuous contributions in micro-optics, diffractives and holography.
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1998 postdoc Fellowship from IMAPS
IMAPS (International Micro-Electronics Assembly and Packaging Society)
For work on optical interconnections in multi-chip modules (MCM) for radar signal processing
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1999 French Academy of Sciences Award
French Academy of Sciences, Paris.
For research on optical computing and optical interconnections.
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2000 Japanese Academy of Sciences Award
Japanese Academy of Sciences, Tokyo.
For work on nano-photonics
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Native or bilingual proficiency
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German
Full professional proficiency
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Alsacian Dialect
Native or bilingual proficiency
Organizations
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SPIE, The International Society for Optics and Photonics
Lifetime member, Fellow (2013), Board Member (2017-2019), Vice-President (2021), President-elect (2022), President (2023)
Advancing light-based science, engineering, and technology SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 264,000 constituents from approximately 166 countries, the not-for-profit society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25…
Advancing light-based science, engineering, and technology SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 264,000 constituents from approximately 166 countries, the not-for-profit society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific. In 2018, SPIE provided $4 million in support of education and outreach programs.
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