2024

IHMA’s Hologram Image Register is expanded to include all Optically Variable Devices (OVDs) and renamed Security Image Register. Articles of Association are subsequently expanded to enable membership by all OVD suppliers. Following the Extraordinary General Meeting...

2021

Technology giant Apple is granted a US patent showing how cameras on the augmented reality wearable Apple Glass could record the real world around the wearer and then use that information to create holograms. Snap Inc, the NYSE-listed software company behind photo...

2022

IDEMIA launches LASINK™ Helios, a new security feature based on optically variable elements, that combines colour personalisation and DOVID technologies to secure secondary portraits. The Hologram Image Register (HIR), operated by the International Hologram...

2020

The Holography Conference moves online in partnership with the IHMA to accommodate restrictions on travel caused by the COVID pandemic. Envisics raises $50 million in a series B round of funding for its holographic technology that projects head-up display (HUD) images...

2019

API Group launches plastics-free holographic laminate. Microsoft Introduces HoloLens2 – using holographic waveguide optics to allow an operator to view computer-generated 3D graphics superimposed onto their visual environment. Silicon Valley start-up DigiLens...