The Looking Glass costs $600 for a 8.9-inch display (around how much a decent VR setup currently costs), and $3,000 for a 15.6-inch version.

Looking Glass Factory/Dizingof Inspecting a 3D product before it’s printed. Its latest product is meant to be a little less cumbersome. It produced an interactive display last year that it showed to Quartz, where users could manipulate virtual objects in a 3D space. Think of it like a second screen for your computer that allows you to view objects in three dimensions, without the need to put on a clunky headset.įounded in 2014, Looking Glass has been toiling away to realize the dream of science-fiction writers (and Victorian inventors), where we interact with three-dimensional objects in the way we do with tablets or other touchscreens today. Today, July 24, the company announced the eponymous Looking Glass, a completely self-contained display for viewing three-dimensional, holographic content.

Unfortunately, you won’t be using an R2-D2 astromech droid to do so, but rather a new type of display developed by Looking Glass Factory, a Brooklyn-based startup. If you’ve ever wished you could recreate the iconic scene in Star Wars, where Luke Skywalker discovers a holographic message of Princess Leia, pretty much kicking off the entire franchise, you can now get a lot closer to that dream. “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.”

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