Looking Glass Portrait

A project in Greenpoint, NY by Looking Glass
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Your first personal holographic display. For people, real and imagined.
Backers: 8050
Average Pledge Per Backer: $312

Funded: $2,511,521 of $50,000
Dates: Dec 2nd -> Jan 14th (44 days)
Project By: Looking Glass
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Latest News

Here, There, Holograms Everywhere

January 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi everyone! We've three major announcements today so I'll get straight to the point. 1. Do Androids dream of holographic sheep? Thanks to all of your help with test photos from dozens of different Android phones over the past few weeks, we've... (Read More)

Happy new year, it's event time!

January 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Backers! Hope y'all had a wonderful holo-day and happy new year to you all. I come bearing a brief but exciting update. This Thursday (January 7th) at 12PM EST, we’ll be hosting our first virtual event of the year — Secrets of the Looking Glass... (Read More)

Advanced hologram magic with Unity and Blender

December 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Before the wave of "2020 is hindsight!" notes hit your inboxes, we thought we'd share some light reading to keep you company as you sip your eggnog by the fireplace and ponder the big questions like, who invented eggnog? These two blog posts come... (Read More)

Ho Ho Ho-lograms

December 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Friends of the future, Thanks to your deep love, obsession, and fanaticism about the third dimension, we've reached $2 million!! And that means we've unlocked the next stretch goal. Now, you can record holographic home movies with Record3D, an iOS... (Read More)

How we invented Looking Glass Portrait

December 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Friends of the third dimension! Over this whirlwind week since launching Looking Glass Portrait, I've had countless questions about how our team pulled this off; how long we'd been working on the technology; and why I am personally so obsessed with... (Read More)

Looking Glass’s Kickstarter Campaign for Personal Holographic Display Raises $1.7 Million

December 7th - via: morningbrew.com
Looking Glass Factory is less a factory, more a venture-backed holographic display startup in Brooklyn. Portrait is what you get when you cross a photo frame with holographic content. (Read More)

2-Pack Bundle Shipping Cost Adjustment

December 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi Backers of the 2-Pack Bundle! We received some messages about your shipping costs. Specifically, some of you have flagged that the shipping cost for two Looking Glass Portraits is more than double the shipping cost of one. Bizarrely, that is... (Read More)

iPhone Portrait mode photos? More like, hologram photos on your Looking Glass Portrait

December 4th - via: kickstarter.com
WOW!!!!! I cannot express how overwhelmed with excitement we are that so many of you have backed this campaign, especially in the past 48 hours. 5,547 BACKERS and over $1.5 million worth of Looking Glass Portrait units sold? I’m just super happy to... (Read More)

Affordable holograms from iPhone Portrait mode photos

December 4th - via: 9to5mac.com
Creating a realistic hologram involves a lot of expensive equipment, both for scanning and projection. But a Kickstarter project aims to provide an affordable hologram for as little as $199, and needs nothing more than a single Portrait mode photo taken by an iPhone. (Read More)

The Looking Glass Portrait is a cheaper holographic window to your smartphone photos and more

December 3rd - via: theverge.com
Looking Glass Factory, a company that designs personal holographic displays, just launched a Kickstarter for its new Looking Glass Portrait, a smaller, more affordable take on its previous light field display. The new Looking Glass can operate as a standalone device, and in a clever move, supports portrait mode photos from smartphones like the iPhone for creating simple holograms. (Read More)

GOAL!! We've escaped Flatland!!

December 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
My palms are sweaty as I’m writing this. I can't believe how fast we blew past the goal for this campaign and honestly all of us here in the lab are just catching our breath. Thanks all for your patience as we rush to answer your questions -- we're... (Read More)

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