NYU Tandon/Poly Wireless Lab

NYU Wireless Labs was founded by Theodore S. Rappaport in 2012. The lab does cutting edge research into the new frontier of Telecommunication Technology and standards. 5G provides higher communication speeds between electronic devices, allowing for new applications of wireless technology. Innovative 5G use cases include autonomous vehicles, smarter machines and and most relevant for this exhibit, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality technologies. 

The succession of previous generations of Wireless Communications have let people advance from sending text messages, to sending pictures, to streaming videos. The transition from 4G to 5G will bring a new generation of digital applications. These applications will no longer be limited by current communication speeds and data speeds. Tom Marzetta, the director of NYU Wireless, states that 5G will lead to the next generation of human communication with the widespread adoption of Augmented Reality devices¹ such as Augmented Reality glasses. These Augmented Reality devices along with new 5G standards will create a society that is even more digitally connected than before.

Inventions and innnovatons at the NYU Wireless Lab such as Massive Input Massive Output (MIMO) technologies and Milimeter Wave Technologies will pave the way forward to a 5G future that will provide a new wave of commercial opportunities and challenges to take advantage of. Although NYU Wireless will not be working directly on the Augmented and Mixed Reality product that will make its way into the hands of the consumer, the lab will create technology and standards that will be crucial to their sucess. 

^{1"Koziol, Michael. “Here's What 6G Will Be, According to the Creator of Massive Mimo.” IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2021, https://spectrum.ieee.org/heres-what-6g-will-be-according-to-the-creator-of-massive-mimo.}