Looking Glass Portrait is the world’s first personal holographic display, ideal for anyone who wants to view, create, and experience true-to-life, 3D holographic images, video and applications right on their desktop.
Hardware
Looking Glass Portrait is our latest display, featuring several new improvements such as:
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An embedded Raspberry Pi 4 for standalone holographic video and image playback (Standalone mode)
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Real-time app support when connected to an external laptop or desktop computer (Desktop mode)
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Holographic imagery that isn’t contained in a cube, floating in midair in front of the display
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A new lightweight form factor (1.5 lbs)
Stand Alone Mode allows you to run the Looking Glass Portrait just plugged into the wall, no computer necessary. In this mode the Looking Glass can playback images or videos that have been synced to the device. Each Looking Glass Portrait ships with a hand picked Demo Reel of amazing content made by the crew at Looking Glass Factory and our amazing community members. You can check out these holograms and more at https://look.glass/holograms.
Stand Alone Mode requires more power than desktop mode does, if you want to run your Looking Glass Portrait in stand alone mode off of your computer or another device separate from the included power adapter, you’ll need to use a proper USB-C cable. USB-A -> USB-C cables will not power the Portrait in stand alone mode.
Desktop Mode
Desktop Mode allows you to run the Looking Glass Portrait off of your computer, we currently support MacOS, Windows, and Linux Systems. In this mode you can play games like Voxatron, view your 3D art in Blender, Unity, Unreal, or sync your own photos & videos with Looking Glass Studio.
Adapters & Cables
There are a few requirements for desktop mode, you’ll want to make sure your computer can output a 4K video signal to HDMI (You can use adapters, like USB-C -> HDMI and Display Port -> HDMI adapters.
Monitor Setup
When setup in desktop mode your Looking Glass Portrait will show up as an external monitor. On both MacOS and Windows you’ll need to set your displays to run in Extended Mode instead of Mirrored Mode. In addition, you’ll want to ensure that the Looking Glass Portrait is set to 1536×2048 with display scaling set to 100%.
