Announcing Looking Glass Portrait, Your First Personal Holographic Display
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Announcing Looking Glass Portrait, Your First Personal Holographic Display

The Looking Glass Factory, the leader in holographic light field display technology, announced the world’s first personal holographic display: Looking Glass Portrait. This 1.3 lb (660g), portrait-oriented system is not only the world’s most advanced holographic display, but it is also the most affordable and easy-to-use, making it ideal for anyone who wants to view, create, and experience true-to-life, 3D holographic images, video and applications right on their desk. The display will ultimately retail at $349.

Looking Glass Portrait — Your first personal holographic display

Looking Glass Portrait is designed for the millions of people who’ve yearned for a holographic future or who work or play in 3D in any way: artists, designers, developers, filmmakers, photographers, early adopters, and those just starting to explore three-dimensional capture and creation. You don’t need to know how to program to use this holographic display. All you need is a computer and a phone that can take Portrait mode photos to get started.

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“Ever since I was a little kid, I dreamed of the moment that I’d be able to have a holographic display of my own,” said Shawn Frayne, CEO of Looking Glass Factory. “I imagined what it would be like to send someone a holographic birthday message, or to say hello as a hologram to my great-great-great granddaughter. Looking Glass Portrait, the culmination of six years of work by our Brooklyn and Hong Kong based team, makes those dreams real for more people than ever before.”

Most Advanced Display Yet

The 7.9” holographic light field display in Looking Glass Portrait is powered by re-designed proprietary optics that make images float out of the device, and includes dramatically improved ambient anti-reflective properties that enhance the visual quality of images.

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Superstereoscopic

Looking Glass Portrait generates dozens — up to 100 — perspectives of a 3D image and projects those perspectives simultaneously into the world. This makes it the only display on the market that can be viewed in full 3D by multiple people at once, each getting a unique stereoscopic view of the holograms generated by the device, without requiring 3D glasses, eye-tracking, or headsets. The result: three-dimensional holograms that feel far more real than anything possible with a 2D display.

58º View Cone

Built-in Computer for Groundbreaking Standalone Mode

Until now, holographic displays needed powerful gaming laptops to run even the simplest holographic media. Looking Glass Portrait can still work in that tethered mode with PCs and Macs — but it is the first system with an additional Standalone Mode, thanks to a built-in computer and a proprietary holographic software stack that can run high-fidelity recorded holographic media at 60fps. Just plug in the Looking Glass Portrait into power via the included USB-C cable.

A Thousand Holograms on Your Desk

The system will ship with the new HoloPlay Studio software (PC and Mac compatible), which enables users to upload, edit and load onto their Looking Glass Portrait up to a 1000 pieces of holographic media — family pictures transformed into holographic photographs (thanks to new capture capabilities in phones like the iPhone X, 11, and 12), holographic video messages, animated 3D characters, and more — on an infinite loop.

Record Holographic Video

Support for Azure Kinect, IntelⓇ RealSense™ and iPhone cameras with Portrait mode capabilities enable people to capture holographic video and share those videos with other Looking Glass Portrait users. It’s the first step toward holographic video calls!

Create Interactive Apps

For more advanced users, Looking Glass Portrait fully supports all of the integrations and development software listed on the Looking Glass website, such as the integrations for UnrealⓇ engine, UnityⓇ, AutodeskⓇMayaⓇ, and Blender, enabling developers and artists to create and share a range of interactive applications and 3D art.

Looking Glass Portrait has patents granted and pending around the world that cover the unique hardware and software technologies developed by the Looking Glass Factory team over the past six years.

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Availability:

Those who want to get their hands on the Looking Glass Portrait display can go to the Looking Glass Kickstarter page here (https://look.glass/portrait). Day 1 and 2 special pricing is $199.

The Looking Glass Portrait display will start to ship on a first ordered, first served basis in the first half of 2021. MSRP is $349.

Learn more about the Looking Glass Portrait at https://look.glass/portrait.

About Looking Glass Factory

Looking Glass Factory Inc, with headquarters in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and additional operations in Hong Kong, is the global leader in the field of holographic interfaces with the launch of their flagship product line, The Looking Glass. This unique combination of advanced hardware and software is based on the company’s patented light field technology and in 2019 became the most widely-adopted holographic display in history. Today, the company serves the holographic needs of both developers and enterprises and is committed to building the headset-free hologram-powered future we were all promised in science fiction growing up. For more information, visit www.lookingglassfactory.com