Looking Glass on Thursday introduced that it has begun delivery a pair of new shows, with a third arriving at buyer properties later this month. The bigger Looking Glass 16- and 32-inch Spatial Displays can be found now. The smaller mannequin runs $4,000. The Brooklyn-based startup is making the 32-inch mannequin’s worth accessible on request.
The most attention-grabbing of the trio, nonetheless, needs to be the $299 Looking Glass Go. Pricing has at all times been the most important barrier to entry for the corporate’s holographic shows. While scaling manufacturing will proceed to carry per-unit prices down, the know-how has been largely worth prohibitive.
Looking Glass first addressed the difficulty on the finish of 2020 with the $399 Portrait, a holographic digital picture body. Like the Portrait, the Go debuted as a part of a Kickstarter marketing campaign. The machine options a six-inch display, making it roughly the dimensions of a smartphone. The machine has a foldable base that props it up for display functions.
The firm has additionally been decreasing the barrier of entry on the content material aspect. Users can display spatial pictures with their very own {hardware} — a function Apple rolled out on the iPhone 15 Pro and Vision Pro headset. Looking Glass additionally affords software program that may convert older 2D photographs to 3D, earlier than transferring them over to the shows by way of Wi-Fi.
“With the[…] Apple Vision Pro and new spatial 3D capture capabilities in phones, we’ve decided it’s about time for a headset-free holographic device for mainstream users,” Looking Glass writes on the Go’s product website.
Prior to the Go’s launch, Looking Glass shipped a self-reported “tens of thousands” of shows. With the worth level for the road now beginning at a hair below $300, the corporate will little doubt be rising that quantity extra quickly, hooking in individuals who have been curious in regards to the tech however didn’t have the 1000’s of {dollars} wanted for entry.