Swave moves closer to market reality: CEO interview

With funding, hires, and working prototypes, Swave shows steady progress in a competitive XR landscape.

September 3, 2025

David Harold

Swave Photonics is steadily executing on its roadmap, adding strategic investors, seasoned leadership, and early customer shipments. In a sector crowded with competing approaches, Swave’s nanopixel SLM and holographic compute engine stand out. With capital secured and prototypes delivered, the company is positioning itself as a contender to make true holography commercially viable. Swave Photonics is a fabless semiconductor company developing true holographic display technology. We last spoke with Swave Photonics CEO Mike Noonen at CES 2025, though the company hasn’t stood still since then, announcing additional funding and leadership hires in June. (Source: Swave) We caught up with Noonen to talk about hires, raises,

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