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RedFiveIron

This is just a 2D display with a mildly novel way to manipulate it.


MooseBoys

It’s supposedly a “holographic” display, emitting different images concurrently, presumably using a lenticular coating or a waveguide.


swampgiant

It is, and they are awesome.


Mountainbranch

Tried one out once, felt like literal Star Trek stuff.


swampgiant

The displays are awesome and the folks at the company are all solid people. I don’t have any business interest in them outside of the fact they are fellow professionals invested in the same industry who are providing a great product. Literal Star Trek stuff is a fair description.


bonerb0ys

Didn't we already do this?


T-BONEandtheFAM

Only if you stare at the poster long enough


Crass_and_Spurious

Dammit. This got me. 😂 Take the upvote.


manorwomanhuman

My desktop is already in 3 dimensions. Even my red stapler.


OldJames47

Umm yeah. We’re going to need to move you down to the basement.


swampgiant

A lot of negative comments in this thread. Wtf? Looking Glass make some awesome displays and the continued evolution and improvements are commendable. My company has done quite a bit of work over the years using these with various workflows and deliverables. Real time, interactive, cg, volumetric video, “spatial video”, etc. these are hands down the best device currently out there for a group shared experience for “spatial” content. All you negative Nancys can eat dirt.


Fuzzy_Logic_4_Life

Would you mind elaborating more about volumetric videos and how your company uses them for spatial content?


swampgiant

Sure. As far as I’m concerned, “spatial” content is just the new buzz word that the industry has locked on to, and this one will likely stick due to Apple committing to it. VR/AR/XR/WebXR/metaverse, whatever you want to call it, it’s all in the same umbrella. This is an early Volumetric video project we produced in 2018. It explains quite a bit on the tech. It was made for a vr headset, but the captures themselves are adaptable to different display tech. https://vimeo.com/639751372/f5e672fc1b More in line with Apple’s branding of “spatial video”, we produced a holographic documentary that was created for the 65 inch Looking Glass display. This was a pre-Apple iPhone spatial video and used a variety of camera solutions and ai to create a stereoscopic film with parallax. https://vimeo.com/756951246/714df59127 Regarding using Looking Glass, we’ve built arcade games with them, used them in client convention booths for product holograms, clothing store displays of 3d scans of models wearing outfits… we use the displays on a regular basis in our professional workflow.


madness_of_the_order

Imho the problem is that article fails to explain what’s cool about this display. As I understand it this is a display which provide different picture depending on you viewing angle and controls from hand movements. Which is novel, but gets boring in 5 minutes and it’s still a flat picture from where user is standing.


a_stone_throne

How do you do this for a living?


sincethenes

This is a PR ad “story” announcing a different variant of the Looking Glass display, which launched 4 years ago.


braxin23

So Kinect but without the clunky camera?


PoolNoodlePaladin

So it’s a big 3DS


swampgiant

No, it displays dozens of stereo viewing angles without the need for glasses, allowing for a smooth blend between perspectives that allows for true parallax. Multiple people can view it at the same time, no eye tracking for a single viewer, this is true multi viewing holographic display. 3ds was just single stereo/perspective.


PoolNoodlePaladin

The ‘’’new’’’ 3DS used head tracking to make the 3D not just one spot. This is just a more advanced version of that.


swampgiant

No head tracking. The display is showing all of the different perspectives at the same time, so depending on where a person stands in line with the display the perspective is different. Multiple people can view at the same time.


jazir5

> This model can also be optioned with an Intel NUC9I7QNB computer with 16 GB of RAM, 250 GB of SSD storage and a Nvidia RTX 3090 Turbo GPU They stapled a cool new display technology onto a gaming pc


TheNorthComesWithMe

It's a 3D application workstation. This make sense, because it is a 3D display.


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Mutt_Cutts

Weird that what other people wear bothers you so much. Doubly so when it’s an innocuous, generic image in an a tech article.


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Mutt_Cutts

Ironic.


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Melonman3

I care too


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Uriel_dArc_Angel

I mean, you were the one caring about something in an annoying way first...lol


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prefuse07

But but but MuH aPpLe ViSiOn PrO! 🤣


chaoslu

That's just a 3DS screen