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Virtual Teleportation Is Coming: How Looking Glass Is Bringing Ideas of the Future to Life With NVIDIA Technology

Looking Glass is on a journey to push the boundaries of holographic technology. For the past decade, we've been driven by our vision of a future where everyone can experience the magic of holograms. Using NVIDIA Maxine technology and NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, we’re helping to bring

Why is spatial content becoming more prevalent?

When I sat down to write a series of posts outlining the different ways to get spatial and holographic media into a Looking Glass display, I realized I was putting the cart before the horse. Before diving into the 'how', I would first need to address the '

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July 2024 Updates @ Looking Glass 😎

Hey hologram people! It’s Reid here with our latest monthly update and wow, what a month it's been! From coast to coast, classrooms to film festivals, we’ve got quite a bit to catch up on. So, sit back and relax, and I’ll take you through

Case Studies

Enabling Creativity Through 3D: How Looking Glass Spatial Displays are Helping out in the Classroom

It’s been longer than I’d like to admit since my golden days of high school. So, I imagine classrooms have changed quite a bit, but I wasn’t expecting this.. Now, don't get me wrong, I grew up learning off of a smart board and overloaded

Rendering the Impossible: That Time We Showed Our Displays at Pixar (And What Came After)

"Hi, Any chance you all are ever out in the San Francisco Bay Area? If so, if you'd be able to bring a presentation to Pixar about HoloPlayerOne, we would love to host you for a visit." In 2018, we packed up one of our first

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June 2024 Updates @ Looking Glass ☀️

Hey everyone, it's Reid here delivering you the June Updates for everything Looking Glass! TLDR: I'm new here but you'll get to know me, LG is at AWE again, and our community creatives are keeping us inspired! Before we get started, let me introduce

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AWE through the years

Can you believe it? A full six years has flown by since our first AWE in 2018. Those were the days when we were young, wild, and free. I remember it like it was yesterday. Janet, our current comms lead, had just started at the company as community & events

Ellie MacQueen: Embracing the Holographic Canvas and Redefining Digital Art

In this interview, multimedia artist Ellie MacQueen takes us on a journey through her creative process and the transformative impact of working with Looking Glass holographic displays. From their initial awe-inspiring encounter with the technology to their groundbreaking projects like Android Andi, Ellie shares how embracing this cutting-edge medium has

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May 2024 Updates 🌊 BCON LA & DisplayWeek Recap and a BIG launch

Hi everyone! Nikki here with this (and partially last) month's Looking Glass updates. TLDR: lots of events and a BIG launch (literally). BCON LA + Display Week We said this last month as well but it's been events, events, and more events. The month started off with

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The Holographic Shift: How Accessible 3D Experiences are Transforming Industries

A few days ago, we announced the Looking Glass 32" Spatial Displays in both landscape and portrait orientations — a launch that completes our full line up of next-generation spatial displays. I'm personally super excited to see this finally come to fruition, especially since the larger portrait form

Finding Community: How CS50, Blender, and Holograms Shaped My Career

Last month, I had the joy of attending BCONLA, the first-ever official Blender Conference outside of Amsterdam. It changed my life in many subtle ways, but the most prominent was in how it brought so much of my recent work full-circle. The Background About ten years ago, I sat in

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Looking Glass Introduces New 16” and 32” Spatial Displays

Sleeker and more adaptable, these next-generation XR displays offer the world’s best 3D experience for professionals who rely on immersive visualization Brooklyn, NY – Today, Looking Glass, the hologram company, has expanded its product line-up with new 16” and 32” spatial displays that enable stunning group 3D visualization without headsets.

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Josette Seitz: Pushing the Boundaries of Immersive Art with Looking Glass and Chimera AI

Meet Josette Seitz, an XR developer and artist pushing the boundaries of what's possible with 3D art

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Welcome to the Spatial Era: Unpacking the Differences Between VR, AR, MR and Holographic Displays

The era of spatial computing is here. I know, I know – you've heard this a million times before, but whatever "era" we are in feels much closer now than at any point in my eight years at Looking Glass. Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed

And the winners are...

This January, we had the pleasure to sponsor and attend MIT Reality Hack 2024. You can recount some of our experience in this blog post! As in the years before, our team spent a large part of the event mentoring hackers on their projects - all within the span of

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Looking Glass at MIT Reality Hack 2024

Joining the MIT Reality Hack 2024 This year, a few members of our team at Looking Glass attended the MIT Reality Hack 2024 as judges, sponsors and mentors. Like the years that came before, it was another incredible opportunity to connect with the incoming generation of XR developers, creators and

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2024: To the future & beyond 🚀

Hey everyone, saying hello in the new year with a few updates from our team. January was a busy month for us with the Looking Glass Go Kickstarter coming to a close (over $600,000 raised in a month, topping $1M+ in Looking Glass Go’s sold including our Kibidango

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Issue #6: Dimensional Dispatch

Howdy readers! First, to follow up on a few things that we touched on in our last issue and in case you missed it, Unity actually came out to apologize for the new runtime fee policy and acknowledged the need for more community involvement. The Sphere also debuted their first

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Issue #5: Dimensional Dispatch

Hi everyone! We're running a week late on Issue #5. Why? Well it seemed to be like everyday, something monumental would happen and I'd go: let's wait one more day so I can put this in the newsletter. But alas, that's just

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Issue #4: Dimensional Dispatch

The smell of fall is in the air. And it's smelling pretty three-dimensional. Before we get into the 3D and AI news of the fortnight, I wanted to start with some pretty exciting news of our own. Just one week ago, we announced the launch of our very

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Introducing: Image to Hologram on Blocks

Just over a year ago, we introduced Blocks— a sharing platform that simplifies the delivery of 3D media & content across devices with a single embed or link. Whether on your phone, computer, headset or Looking Glass, the format was created as a window into a three-dimensional universe. ‍ Since then,

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Issue #3: Dimensional Dispatch

What a week! It’s the middle of August and we had this crazy notion that we'd see a slow couple of weeks given that it's Summer but we were wrong. The future waits for no one! Can I just say — we love Siggraph? I look

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Issue #2: Dimensional Dispatch

Nikki here 👋🏼 back with the second edition of Dimensional Dispatch! We’re in the lead up to this year’s SIGGRAPH (one of the biggest 3D graphics conferences where Pixar made their debut a few decades ago) so naturally, we’ve been seeing a bunch of research papers released over

Creator Highlight: Jake Adams / Valholo

Visual Artist and Lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Interactive Games & Media Department, Jake Adams is the creator of the first digital holographic comic (holo-comic) and founder of Valholo an XR and digital holographic studio. Jake holds an MS in Design and Digital Media from the

Issue #1: Dimensional Dispatch

What a time to be alive! As we stand perched on the precipice of a new dimensional era, I can’t help but marvel at the possibilities spread out before us like an endless voxelated landscape. Just think - only a few short years ago, computing was confined to boring