Mike Peterson
Brooklyn-based startup Looking Glass is crowdfunding a new holographic photo frame that can display depth-mapped iPhone photos in 3D.
The Looking Glass Portrait is a 7.9-inch photo frame-shaped display that allows 3D objects, like a depth-mapped 3D image snapped by an iPhone 12 Pro, to be viewed from multiple viewing angles and various perspectives.
Powered by a built-in Raspberry Pi 4, the Looking Glass Portrait can function without a computer to deliver 60 frame-per-second holographic images. Users can snap those images using an iPhone's LiDAR sensor or TrueDepth camera, or other depth-sensing camera products, and edit them in an included HoloPlay Studio app.
Unlike similar 3D or holographic displays on the market, the Portrait can be viewed by multiple people — essentially making it more like a holographic picture frame than competing devices.
At $349, the Portrait is one of Looking Glass' most affordable products. Its other holographic and display units range from $600 to $6,000 and up.
The device is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter, however, so interested early adopters can pick up a Looking Glass Portrait at an early introductory rate of $199.
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Now if it could just look a little bit better support audio and video....oh wait a minute, there are digital frames that can already do this, at a fraction of the cost. I see this just being another landfill product.
NOT holographic. It's a lenticular stereogram.
I would think that Apple has all of these pieces in place now to use a modern computer display (iMac, MBP) to do this using Apple's existing frameworks. Just need the GUI front end ,,,, perhaps through Photo app
I think it looks pretty cool, but I’ve always been a sucker for anything 3D related.
I used to love the mono-tone holograms that you sometimes saw in the 80s