GLASS PHOTOFRAME SOFTWARE
GLASS PHOTOFRAME PC

GLASS PHOTOFRAME SOFTWARE

Looking Glass' software already works with Unreal engine, Unity, Autodesk Maya and Blender. But the tradeoff of 3D depth and multiple viewing angles, and the way images feel projected into the glass, creates a weird glowing surrealism, too. The 7.9-inch 4:3 display has a 2,048x1,536-pixel resolution, and in previous experiences with Looking Glass frames, the images are a little lower-res than normal photos. Like previous Looking Glass displays, which were aimed for professional or industrial use, it also works with a plug-in hand-tracking Leap Motion controller to reach into the display and control or move things, too.

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The display has its own PC and Mac software that converts your photos into Looking Glass-ready 3D images, and loads them onto the display. The Looking Glass Portrait can work on its own, storing up to 1,000 3D scans or photos, or can be paired with a Mac or PC. It feels like a little glass tank in which the images float like ghosts or captured holograms. The feeling, looking at the displays, can be uncanny. I saw previous pro-level Looking Glass displays years ago, and was instantly impressed by how weirdly the images seemed to really be there, almost real. The light field display is like a far more advanced Nintendo 3DS: Images can be viewed at a range of up 100 angles, and video clips played back at up to 60fps, but you have to stay in a certain range to see what's there. And In a way, we've already been down this road before.

The Looking Glass Portrait costs under $400. Sony just made its own 3D glasses-free (aka, autostereoscopic) holographic display, but it costs a whopping $5,000. The Looking Glass Portrait isn't that crazy an idea. It sounds like a wild idea, and I want to try one out on my desk right now (I don't have one, yet). The $349 Looking Glass Portrait is a 7.9-inch desktop photo frame-sized display with a built-in Raspberry Pi 4 computer that aims to be a 3D viewer for those photos, and a holographic mini monitor for interactive programs and 3D cameras. But, of course, iPhones don't have 3D screens. The latest iPhones can take remarkably impressive 3D photos and scans, especially with the rear lidar sensor.

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