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David Fattal
David Fattal is Co-Founder and CTO of Leia Inc., the company behind Immersity. He has led the development of switchable immersive displays and real-time 2D-to-3D conversion technology used in products from Samsung, Acer, ZTE and others. Before founding Leia, David spent nearly a decade at HP Labs working in nanophotonics and quantum computing.
David holds a PhD in Physics from Stanford University and a BS in Theoretical Physics from École Polytechnique, France. He is an inventor on more than 250 patents and a recipient of the French National Order of Merit. He was named to MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” list in 2013 and was a finalist for the European Inventor Award in 2024.
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Opinion
Shared Spatial Understanding: The Next Evolution of Industrial Operations
The information teams use to inspect, diagnose and repair industrial machines is flat. Gains in uptime and efficiency will come not from collecting more data, but from giving field and office teams a shared spatial view of the same reality.By: David Fattal11 August, 2026 | 4 minutes
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