New perception for the next generation of intelligent devices.
The Eyes
of AI.
Metalenz is bringing advanced sensing capabilities to mass markets. No need for expensive computation. No need for spatial alignment. Single sensor, single viewpoint, multimodal data.
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Metalenz acquires PxE
Holographic Imaging.
Metalenz extends its differentiated dataset for Physical and Edge AI on one proven supply chain. Designed to replace the Bayer filter, PxE’s holocoder technology captures depth alongside RGB, passively and in ambient light, without a separate depth sensor, active illumination, or computationally expensive sensor fusion.
Real-time, Natively fused Color-Infrared-Depth
Redefining the sensor supply chain
PxE’s holographic technology delivers world-class image quality and depth accuracy, plus 2.5x the SNR of traditional Bayer-based cameras.
Explore the PxE platform →2.5x SNR
of traditional Bayer-based cameras
Markets
Better Information, less compute. The only platform for AI in the wild.
Deploying at scale.
Built in the foundry.
Metalenz brings optics into the semiconductor foundry, delivering differentiated performance that scales across billions of consumer devices where size and cost are constrained.
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Proven at scale
300M+ metasurfaces in devices today.
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Wafer-level integration
Built in the foundry, alongside the sensor.
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Semiconductor economics
Consumer price points and volumes.
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No software substitute
Unique information, encoded in hardware.
Perception solutions
One modular layer. A unique full stack.
Our sensor-layer design delivers information no conventional sensor captures. The rest of the hardware stays the same: lenses, sensor and illuminator, integrated at the foundry with no module redesign or sensor fusion.
Near infrared · active illumination
PolarEyes
Polarization image: liveness, shape and surface.
A polarization-sorting metasurface on a standard NIR sensor with a single flood illuminator.
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PxE
Visible light field: color, depth and phase. 2.5x increase in SNR
A holographic encoder replaces the color filter array, delivering simultaneous color and depth from ambient light
Explore PxE platformPolarization-sorting metasurface
Customer NIR sensor
Color sorting layer (replaces CFA)
Customer RGB sensor
One shared stack
Computation & ML
Reconstruction of data no conventional sensor captures, and models trained on data only our hardware produces.
Differentiated Datasets for AI.
Every AI model today
Billions of standard images
Cameras, phones, the internet
Brightness + color only
AI / Foundation model
Trained on the same data as every competitor
Hard ceiling: same data, same models.
Metalenz
PolarEyes
Active NIR · monochrome
PxE
Passive visible · color
Polarization
Material classification
Depth
Phase & low light
AI with new optical senses
Trained on data no competitor can generate
New optical intelligence, absent from every existing dataset.
The moat: you cannot generate this data without the physical sensor.
Metalenz is the only company delivering across NIR and visible at semiconductor price and scale.
The Metalenz evolution
From foundational tech to
optical intelligence platform.
Foundation
Metasurface components
Meta-optics replace traditional lens stacks in ST FlightSense modules. 300M+ units shipped.
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Full Stack Solutions
System level design and sensor integration
Capture information in light that conventional cameras can’t, and bring entirely new data to machine vision systems.
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Trust
First application: Polar ID
Authenticate a real human with payment-grade security. Face authentication’s killer app, with UMC wafer-on-wafer mass production ready.
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Visible + Depth
Powered by PxE
PxE compatible tech extends optical intelligence to RGB-D on the same supply chain, disrupting stagnation in visible sensing.
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New insights
Built directly on the sensor
New data at the sensor level powers unique AI models, turning expanded machine perception into new insights for people and the machines that work for them.
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