Looking Glass User Guide

Everything you need to know about Looking Glass displays and software.

Welcome to the Looking Glass User Guide. This guide aims to provide all the information you need to get started with your Looking Glass display(s).

Looking Glass Displays

🔮Looking Glass Portrait

Your first personal holographic display.

🔮Looking Glass 16" Spatial Displays

The 3D desktop companion for innovators.

🔻Looking Glass 32"

Ideal for professional environments and venues.

🔮Looking Glass 65" Spatial Display

Holograms that are larger than life.

Software Tools

🌉Looking Glass Bridge

Required software for connecting your Looking Glass to your computer.

🔆Liteforms™

Holographic AI Characters Powered by ChatGPT

📽️Looking Glass Studio

A holographic media player.

🧊Looking Glass Blocks

Share your holograms on the internet.

Key Concepts

This section contains documentation for some of the key concepts you'll want to learn about in order to design content or experiences for Looking Glass displays.

🔍How does Looking Glass Works

Learn how the Looking Glass display brings 3D holograms into reality.

💡Quilts

Learn about quilts, the go-to hologram format for sharing holograms

💡Light Fields

Learn how to capture holograms in any scenario.

📸Virtual Camera

Learn how to set up custom camera rigs in 3D tools.

Creator Tools

Don't forget to check out our 3D design guidelines for guidance on best practices!

Our Creator Tools section contains all the documentation for the Unity and Unreal plugins, the Blender add-on, the WebXR library, and two third-party solutions - VTK and Depthkit.

If you want to create your own holograms for your Looking Glass, this is where you'll start.

🔌Unity

Create interactive holographic applications with Unity.

🍹Blender

Bring your Blender creations into the third dimension.

🔌Unreal Engine

Create cinematic quality holograms in Unreal Engine.

🌐WebXR

Bring holograms to the web with WebXR.

Tutorials

Check out our community made tutorials!

Maya

Capturing Light Fields in Maya.

ShaderToy

Using ShaderToy with Looking Glass.

Adobe Medium

Sculpting with Adobe Medium and Looking Glass.

Holographic video games

Turn Video games Holographic with Refract.

Third Party Software

• 3D Slicer, a popular open-source medical imaging application

• ParaView, a software that allows researchers studying complex 3D fields like computational fluid dynamics, climate science, aerodynamic design, and materials science to now visualize and analyze their complex 3D data holographically as they work.

Legacy Hardware

For first generation Looking Glass devices like Looking Glass 8.9", Looking Glass 15.6", Looking Glass 16", and the original Looking Glass 8K Gen1, see the Legacy Hardware section.

Need help?

If you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out. We're here to help you at any stage of your holographic journey!

You can provide us with feedback or feature requests on our Discord server!

If you're having issues with your Looking Glass or some of our software, head to our troubleshooting page. If those resources don't help solve your issue, email us directly at [email protected]