🎬Hologram Video iOS App

This app lets you load and play Cinematic Mode video captured from iPhones. Just shoot video on your iPhone and load it into the app, and you can see real-world footage holographically.

Advanced users can generate their own custom RGBD videos with AI tools like Depth Anything, DepthCrafter, and Owl3D.

Setup: Loading Calibration

To run Hologram Video, you must first select the calibration file for your Looking Glass device. When you run your application, you will be prompted to:

• Connect your device via USB-C

• Load a calibration file via the file browser. Calibration files are under Locations -> LKG-XXXXXX (your device serial number) -> LKG_calibration -> visual.json. Select the visual.json file

• Your calibration is now loaded — applications will store this for future use

Loading Cinematic videos

Cinematic videos can be captured on iPhone 15+ devices. Earlier iPhone devices can also capture Cinematic video, but it is of lower quality, so we recommend capturing content on these more modern phones.

To capture a Cinematic video, open your Camera app on your iPhone and select "CINEMATIC" from the options.

With your video captured, you now need to load it into your app. If you are using your Looking Glass device with an iPhone:

• Open the Hologram Video app

• Select the "+" button

• Select "Open Cinematic movies"

• Select your Cinematic video from the displayed options

If you're using your device on an iPad, the process is trickier because you need to get the content onto your iPad. The easiest way to do so is via AirDrop, but you must follow specific steps in order to avoid the depth data being stripped out of the video, which Apple does by default.

As such, when running Looking Glass devices from an iPad, follow these steps:

• Open the Photos app on the iPhone

• Select the Cinematic video from your album

• Select the "Share" button

• Select "Options"

• Under "Format" select "All Data"

• Select "Done"

• Select "AirDrop"

• Find your iPad and select it

• Accept the file on your iPad

• Open the Hologram Video app

• Select the "+" button

• Select "Open Cinematic movies"

• Select your Cinematic video from the displayed options

After a short delay, your content will appear on your Looking Glass device.

Loading RGBD videos

RGBD videos must have grayscale depth maps, and must be arranged with the depth data to on the right and the color data on the left, as in the following image:

If your RGBD videos appear as above, you're good to go! Simple make sure they are in your photo albums, press the "+" button on the Hologram Video app, and select the desired video. After a short delay, your content will appear on your Looking Glass device.

Playback controls

Once you have your content loaded and playing, you can do the following:

• Tap and drag the purple rectangle to change the framing

• Pinch on the purple rectangle to zoom in and out

• Play and pause the video

• Use the focus slider to adjust what is on the focal plane

• Use the depthiness slider to increase or decrease the perceived depth of the content

• Press the "+" button and select "Play from start" to restart the video

• Press the "+" button and select a new video to change the content that is playing

• Flip the depth map by pressing the "Black to white" or "White to black" buttons (RGBD content only)

Support

The Hologram Video app is in beta and has the following known issues:

• Audio gets out of sync with longer videos

• Videos can be loaded from iCloud storage, causing long load times

If you hit any issues, please contact our support team at [email protected].