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The Looking Glass: A Holographic Display for 3D Creators

The Looking Glass is the first desktop holographic display designed for 3D creators. No VR or AR headgear required.
The Looking Glass is the first desktop holographic display designed for 3D creators. No VR or AR headgear required.
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1,301 backers pledged $844,621 to help bring this project to life.
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Much respect to Santa's workshop

Dear friends of the hologram,

Around half of you should have already received your Looking Glasses, or will be receiving them in the next few days!  We've been shipping... Read more

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The time has come, the Walrus said, to ship Looking Glasses

Friends of the hologram,

Look out there. Into the distance, just beyond the horizon. You see that glow? That's your Looking Glass being forged in the fires of holographic creation... Read more

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Advance Beta shipments!

Hear ye, hear ye!

Advance Beta Standard and Advance Beta Large Looking Glass shipments have commenced!  Most backers living in Brooklyn, Hong Kong, and Tokyo have already gotten hand... Read more

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Holograms all the way down

"Play along, make-believe it’s hyperreal, But I live in a hologram with you."

-Lorde, Buzzcut Season

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The time of the hologram is finally here!!!  And the list of things... Read more

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Mosaic Mode!

Hello everyone, I’m Kyle Appelgate, and I wrote the HoloPlay Unity SDK. I’m regularly working with the rest of the team to add new features to the SDK, and I... Read more

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Sketchfab x Looking Glass Integration is Here!

Hello friends of the hologram! I’m Alex Duncan, a developer at Looking Glass Factory. I’ve been working on making it easy for people to get 3D content into their Looking... Read more

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3D Scanning for Fun and Profit

Next in our ongoing series detailing techniques and tools with which you, the intrepid hologram hacker, can capture the real world and pull it into your Looking Glass: 3D scanning... Read more

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THE LOOKING GLASS HOLO MESSAGE PLAYER IS BORN

Friends of the hologram!

Evan and Missy here! Today in #ImpossibleThings, we’re bringing you a holographic artifact from one of our favorite and holo-spiration shows of all time - Adventure... Read more

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Control a Hologram with Your Face w/ iPhone X

Hello Friends of the Future!

Nolan here from Looking Glass Factory.  Tired of not seeing your facial expressions mirrored on a doge? Want to control a hologram with your face?... Read more

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Hacking the Lightfield

Hi backers!  I'm Evan, an engineer with Looking Glass Factory. Just want to get this out of the way: all of us here in the lab are so humbled and... Read more

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Maya to Looking Glass!

Today's update is coming your way straight from another member of the Looking Glass Factory team -- this time from Dez, lead on a number of advanced software projects including the... Read more

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A new mode of (2D) storytelling in a Looking Glass (3D)

The next few updates are coming your way straight from members of the Looking Glass Factory team and some friends in our local community of 3D creators.  Here's the first... Read more

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STRETCH GOAL: VOXATRON x LOOKING GLASS

Backers of Earth, today we’re announcing THE Stretch Goal to end all stretch goals!!

If we hit $750,000,Kickstarter backers who already have or will purchase a Looking Glass will... Read more

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The Three Looking Glasses in Japan

Before we launched on Kickstarter, a handful of Looking Glass prototypes made their way into Japan.  We demoed at a few events and sold a prototype or two to folks... Read more

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Vintage holograms

In honor of the Vintage Computer Festival taking place this weekend in the Bay Area, take a gander at this incredible Macintosh Classic crafted in Cinema4D by Daniel O'Neil, miniaturized... Read more

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Something holographic this way comes!

Dear backers from around the world,

THANK YOU!  You're making a dream that we've worked on for years, and thousands of pioneers before us have chased for their entire... Read more

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