Re:Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface
by colanderman on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:20PM
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Do you remember if the image varies in the vertical plane as well as the horizontal? The demo videos only move the camera horizontally.
Re:Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface
by keksdev on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @06:27AM
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From the comments on Kickstarter: "Hi! The Looking Glass is horizontal-parallax-only."
Re:Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface
by powerapple on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:20AM
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if it is stacked screens, I don't see any reason it will work horizontally only. I believe the view angle is still very limited. I'd love to use this for Skype chat or something.
Re:Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface
by bawana on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @06:53AM
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If the lenticular lens is made of columns (as those fake 3D postcards are) then only horizontal shift is 3D-able. To display verticality, the lenticular lenses could be hemispheres. However, to encode vertical 3D-ness you would need 45 images for each 2 degrees off the horizontal so as your head bobs up and down, it can pick up the off axis images. So that's 45 images x 45 axes = 2025 images per frame.
As others have mentioned, it requires pushing quite a number of simultaneous views of the hologram through a hidpi display, the experienced resolution is not very high as a result and the holograms look a bit fuzzy.
It is right now probably the best out-of-the box way to interact with Holograms, especially in a shared environment. Hololens can't share holograms by default, and even if the app has implemented sharing, the holograms can't be touched. Meta glasses have some touchability thanks to their depth sensor, but again there's no easy shared way to interact with a hologram.
I think AR like Looking Glass is underrated, they were very smart to use natural interaction instead of gestures or a mouse/wand. That being said, I don't see it competing with AR glasses longterm.