Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
We all are too I am well aware of the notch – the subtle cut that has graced many phones for years, such as iPhone X or LG G7.
The notch has been largely replaced on modern phones with floating cameras that take up less space and look futuristic, although notches are still common on some laptops, such as Apple’s. MacBooks.
On the iPhone, Apple calls its floating tablet-like camera Dynamic Island, which debuted on iPhone 14. The iPhone still has the biggest camera cutout today, thanks to its Face ID biometric authentication feature. (None Google Pixel phonesmany a Android phones don’t give a Face authentication is equally protected(so that they don’t need to cut the camera too much.) The island may be smaller, however, thanks to the understated camera technology announced on Show Week 2026 from MetalenzOptics startup from Boston.
A Primer on Metasurfaces
Metalenz’s optical metasurfaces technology is a lens system that uses a small portion of the glass material in most phones. You can read more about it in our original article on the company herebut in short, instead of reflecting the light using several plastic lenses or glasses-which makes the image look better, corrects errors, and brings light to the camera’s camera-metasurfaces use a single lens with nanostructures to withstand the light of the sensors.
Metalenz says more than 300 million of its metasurfaces are already being used in consumer devices today, replacing the sophisticated time-of-flight sensors that capture data and help with camera autofocus.
The company also developed a process for using these metasurfaces capture the polarization data. When light hits an object with specific properties, it creates a unique polarization signature. The reflective light of the black ice has a different signal from the off-road lighting. Using machine learning, this enables a system that can quickly detect black ice on the road and inform the driver.
Photo: Courtesy of Metalenz
That is why the company was created Polar IDfacial authentication platform to complement Apple’s Face ID. With polarization data, its sensors can distinguish a real face from a person wearing an incredibly accurate 3D mask of the same person, because the polarization information from the light coming from the person’s skin is unique compared to the light coming from the silicone of the mask. Yes, it’s much more secure than Google’s face unlock system on Pixels, which can be compromised by the advanced 3D mask.
