INSTITUTIONAL SEMINAR
Innovations in Augmented Reality Optical Systems - Workshop
On March 21, 2025, the seminar "Screens of the Future: Innovations in Optical Systems for Augmented Reality" was held by Tomas Libutti, a graduate in Physics from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences and Surveying at the National University of the Northeast who currently works for an Austrian company promoting this technology.
The meeting provided a practical opportunity to experience the technology visually, following a very detailed description of the theoretical aspects. Attendees had the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of physics and mathematics to understand how the phenomena that enable the transition to augmented reality occur.
This seminar was specifically designed for advanced engineering students, particularly those in physics and mathematics.
The meeting took place in the Graduate Hall of FaCENA's headquarters on the UNNE Deodoro Roca Campus in Corrientes.
Tomás Libutti's Professional Career
Tomás Libutti graduated with a degree in Physics from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences and Surveying at UNNE. He subsequently lived for a decade in San Carlos de Bariloche and worked at INVAP, a renowned company in Argentina and around the world for its technological developments in both the nuclear and satellite sectors. There, he specialized in the development of optics and cameras mounted on satellites to obtain images of planet Earth.
He had the opportunity to travel to Finland to work for a company dedicated to developing diffraction gratings applied to enhanced relief technologies. He specialized in the manufacture of waveguides that allow the application of enhanced relief for mass-market products, always contributing to the optics industry.
A few months ago, he moved to Austria, where he noted that "we developed image diffraction units in a company that then couple the diffractive waveguides and guide them toward the human eye, that is, the images that are superimposed on the reality that the user is viewing together, composing what is known as augmented reality."