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Can anyone link a Wikipedia article or briefly describe how does this work?

taneq 1y ago
Digging through their web page, are one point they describe it as “multi-view parallax” which I’m interpreting as a parallax barrier based display, providing different views depending on view angle. The background environment is static, and I think it might be a seperate optical layer (maybe even an actual hologram?)
- nenenejej 1y ago
  How good is the illusion? Will it look 3D or somewhat off? Will it work at different distances? Will it look 3D still if I am still and nothing is moving in view?
  - taneq 1y ago
    Hard to tell but from the videos and the described toolchain it sounds like the video is actually completely 2D and they're just presenting it inside a 'holographic' environment. Think of it like a model theatre with a Pepper's Ghost illusion in the middle, except with some fancypants optics to make the display actually be much thinner than the 'theatre' insde.
  - zimpenfish 1y ago
    > How good is the illusion? Will it look 3D or somewhat off? I've got the original 8" Looking Glass Portrait (from the Kickstarter) and it's not bad? Works well enough to get the sense of depth but wouldn't fool anyone for a second[1][2]. > Will it look 3D still if I am still and nothing is moving in view? Yes (or at least mine does) [1] May be just my workflow, mind; it's not like I'm spending a huge amount of time crafting content for it. [2] And I'd assume they've refined the technology since then.
    - araes 1y ago
      Thanks, I thought I remembered seeing these folks a while ago. From checking on Kickstarter it looks like they actually had three different ones so far. Last Update 2020, 1,301, $844,621, Looking Glass: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/the-looking-glass-a-holographic-display-for-3d-cre https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/the-lookin... Last Update 2023, 8,051, $2,511,785, Looking Glass Portrait: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-glass-portrait https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-gl... Last Update 2025, 2,365, $680,940, Looking Glass Go: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-glass-go https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-gl... First Kickstarter had pretty positive, seems like there were a lot of delivery issues with the later Kickstarters. Still, done three of these so far with at least some percentage actually getting something eventually. It's difficult to tell on Kickstarter sometimes, since there's a bunch that have horrible order fulfillment, and collapsed delivering almost nothing, or pulled snatch and grab rug pulls, yet there's also a lot of people who expect it's like clicking "ship" on Amazon. The Kickstarters actually have a lot of answers to the tech questions about turning flat photos into 3D images and taking 3D pictures, and the basic tech ideas being used.
- JKCalhoun 1y ago
  "Multi-view parallax" sounds like lenticular (https://www.stereoscopy.com/faq/lenticular.html https://www.stereoscopy.com/faq/lenticular.html).
  - taneq 1y ago
    I'd assumed it was actually a parallax barrier, possibly with a lenticular sheet in front of it to help fill in the gaps, but yeah it could just be lenticular like those "3D" photos with the plastic lens sheet in front of them.

Digging through their web page, are one point they describe it as “multi-view parallax” which I’m interpreting as a parallax barrier based display, providing different views depending on view angle. The background environment is static, and I think it might be a seperate optical layer (maybe even an actual hologram?)

nenenejej 1y ago
How good is the illusion? Will it look 3D or somewhat off? Will it work at different distances? Will it look 3D still if I am still and nothing is moving in view?
- taneq 1y ago
  Hard to tell but from the videos and the described toolchain it sounds like the video is actually completely 2D and they're just presenting it inside a 'holographic' environment. Think of it like a model theatre with a Pepper's Ghost illusion in the middle, except with some fancypants optics to make the display actually be much thinner than the 'theatre' insde.
- zimpenfish 1y ago
  > How good is the illusion? Will it look 3D or somewhat off? I've got the original 8" Looking Glass Portrait (from the Kickstarter) and it's not bad? Works well enough to get the sense of depth but wouldn't fool anyone for a second[1][2]. > Will it look 3D still if I am still and nothing is moving in view? Yes (or at least mine does) [1] May be just my workflow, mind; it's not like I'm spending a huge amount of time crafting content for it. [2] And I'd assume they've refined the technology since then.
  - araes 1y ago
    Thanks, I thought I remembered seeing these folks a while ago. From checking on Kickstarter it looks like they actually had three different ones so far. Last Update 2020, 1,301, $844,621, Looking Glass: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/the-looking-glass-a-holographic-display-for-3d-cre https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/the-lookin... Last Update 2023, 8,051, $2,511,785, Looking Glass Portrait: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-glass-portrait https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-gl... Last Update 2025, 2,365, $680,940, Looking Glass Go: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-glass-go https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-gl... First Kickstarter had pretty positive, seems like there were a lot of delivery issues with the later Kickstarters. Still, done three of these so far with at least some percentage actually getting something eventually. It's difficult to tell on Kickstarter sometimes, since there's a bunch that have horrible order fulfillment, and collapsed delivering almost nothing, or pulled snatch and grab rug pulls, yet there's also a lot of people who expect it's like clicking "ship" on Amazon. The Kickstarters actually have a lot of answers to the tech questions about turning flat photos into 3D images and taking 3D pictures, and the basic tech ideas being used.
JKCalhoun 1y ago
"Multi-view parallax" sounds like lenticular (https://www.stereoscopy.com/faq/lenticular.html https://www.stereoscopy.com/faq/lenticular.html).
- taneq 1y ago
  I'd assumed it was actually a parallax barrier, possibly with a lenticular sheet in front of it to help fill in the gaps, but yeah it could just be lenticular like those "3D" photos with the plastic lens sheet in front of them.