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PORTL Rebrands As Proto; Adds Mini Version Of Hologram-ish Transparent LCD Display

March 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes

The LA start-up that made a name for itself for using big transparent LCDs and clever lighting to create hologram-ish virtual presence experiences has done a name change to reinforce how it was the first to figure this all out, followed by copycats. PORTL has re-branded as Proto Inc. – Proto meaning “first.” The company, …

Toronto Mega-Mall Uses PORTL’s Hologram-ish Displays To Run Virtual Fashion Shows Through Holiday Season

December 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes

(Image: Dustin Fuhs) An “activation” that’s somewhere between interesting and gimmick-y used one of PORTL’s transparent LCD set-ups to do a virtualized fashion show at one of Canada’s biggest shopping malls, starting this week and running through the holiday season. The retail property owner Cadillac Fairview has one of the shower-stall like set-ups in the …

PORTL Closes $12M Fundraising Round To Grow Demand For Its Virtual Presence Products

November 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes

The company that has really pushed the possibilities for transparent LCD and marketed a quasi-hologram-ish virtual presence product called PORTL has just announced a healthy fundraising round. LA-based PORTL Inc. has announced the close of its $12M Series A round, led by TRUE Capital Management and funded by everyone from well-known tech investor Tim Draper to …

PORTL’s Transparent Displays Being Used By University’s Health Educators To Demonstrate Disorders

August 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes

Much of the attention around the use of transparent displays to show people at life-size dimension, in remote locations, has been focused on sectors like events and entertainment, but a Florida university has identified a very different use-case: healthcare education. The University of Central Florida is using LA-based PORTL’s tricked-out transparent flat panels to show …

2020 NBA Title Ring Virtualized And Sold As Crypto Token, Based On PORTL’s Transparent LCD

May 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes

I’m putting out there, immediately, that I understand maybe half of the following, as it has something or other to do with crypto-currencies and memorabilia. The LA start-up PORTL, which does a very clever job of making transparent LCD look like three-dimensional hologram displays, has announced it has created the “world’s first volumetric pro sports …

PORTL Puts Swiss Timepiece Execs At Shanghai Trade Show, Without Leaving Alps

April 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes

I’m a big fan of what PORTL is doing with its remote display system, for use-cases like new luxury watch launches and demos done by a Swiss firm for a recent trade show many time zones away in Shanghai. The timepiece firm IWC used PORTL’s display and software system to have its CEO and rock …

PORTL Closes $3M Raise, First COO; Reports 100 Hologram-ish Units Sold

November 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes

The LA startup that uses a highly optimized transparent LCD displays and enclosures to create life-sized, hologram-ish visual effects has completed a new $3 million fundraising round that will be used, in part, to devlop a small desktop version for content creators. Watching a video like this is the best way to explain PORTL, but …

PORTL Founder David Nussbaum Explains Tech Behind His Hologram-Ish Displays

January 29, 2020 by Dave Haynes

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David Nussbaum has years invested in the whole idea of creating what are called holograms – but aren’t – for high profile concerts and other events. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. …

LA’s PORTL Marketing Real-Time Kinda-Sorta Hologram Projection Screen Tech

January 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes

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An LA start-up called PORTL is marketing what it calls the world’s only completely self-contained life-sized, single-passenger, 4K resolution hologram projection machine. The marketing pitch is that a person – like a performer or political candidate – could be captured on a white screen in one place, and that person’s life-sized, three-dimensional image be replicated …

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