$249 Holographic Display: Looking Glass Portrait interview with Shawn Frayne, CEO & Co-founder
Channel: Charbax
Date: 2021-03-08

Looking Glass Portrait successfully crowdfunded with $2.5 Million backing at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-glass-portrait available for pre-order for $249 at https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/portrait (shipping in June, to some backers from April), world's first Holographic Light Field Display affordable to a mass market for everyone to be able to view it on their table, importing content such as many portrait mode photos from smartphones that already capture depth information today, holographic/3D video messages, eventually even real-time Holographic Zoom calls might be possible. The ecosystem of support documentation available on their website https://docs.lookingglassfactory.com/

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Shawn Frayne, the co-founder and CEO of Looking Glass Factory, talks about their new interface, the Looking Glass. It is the first holographic light field display that can be placed on desks and can pull any type of 3D creations into it. The Looking Glass Portrait, which is a 7.9-inch holographic light field display, shows dozens of different perspectives of a three-dimensional scene simultaneously. This allows groups of people to view a three-dimensional memory, a video message or 3D digital creations made in Unity or Unreal. The display is multi-view and allows several people to gather around it and view it in different three-dimensional super stereoscopic perspectives. It is more accessible than previous systems and the software has also had to be advanced to make it work. The Looking Glass Portrait is under $300 and is available on their website.

This video showcases the Looking Glass 8k, a 32-inch display, as well as the depth video quality of iPhone 10, 11, and 12, including the Pro and Pro Max versions, which are almost as good as a dedicated depth camera such as the Azure Connect. Third-party applications like Record 3D can now export recordings to the Looking Glass. Additionally, some phones use two lenses to capture depth and produce images in portrait mode, and some new phones, like the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, have added a LIDAR camera for superior depth mapping. Combining these advanced camera capabilities with machine learning algorithms can produce high-quality holographic displays accessible to many people for under a few hundred dollars.

This YouTube video discusses the capabilities of a software tool called Holoplay Studio, which allows users to convert various types of 3D content into holograms. The tool can be used to edit the framing and refocusing of portrait mode photos, and users can experiment with adding animated gifs, effects, and changing the background and lighting. The video also mentions how the tool can be used to record holographic videos using front-facing or back-facing iPhone cameras, as well as with the Azure Connect or Intel RealSense cameras. Additionally, the video discusses research being done to capture higher fidelity scenes using the phone's camera, and the potential for users to play video games in holographic mode when connected to a PC or Mac.

The video is about the Looking Glass Portrait, an 8k standalone system that captures ambient lighting in a room and provides a resolution improvement. The creator states that all display suppliers have some ak stuff, and they are getting smaller and smaller. They design custom optics based on the particular module and use a proprietary calibration process. The system only works in portrait orientation and can be used by people who touch 3D in some way. It is not designed for retail stores and Amazon. It is a beginning for the future of additional improvements in resolution perspective and integration with ambient lighting in the room.