The Looking Glass – Holographic Display

Re:The Looking Glass – Holographic Display by Feneric on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:32PM (#18820458)

How well does it work with Linux? I didn't see anything about it on the site. It'd be neat to hook up to my laptop, but if Linux isn't supported at all there'd be no point.

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Re:The Looking Glass – Holographic Display by bacon_waffle on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:20PM (#18821458)

Mine should be arriving tomorrow or Monday, I'm intending to try and use it with Linux. From what I can tell, the display more-or-less presents as a normal 2d monitor which expects a tiled grid of views that differ in azimuth: have a look at https://vimeo.com/lookingglassfactory

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Re:The Looking Glass – Holographic Display by bacon_waffle on Saturday January 05, 2019 @08:14PM (#18835633)

Correction - the views are interleaved, and the details of that interleaving depend on the calibration of your individual Looking Glass.

https://github.com/lonetech/LookingGlass has a Python tool that grabs the calibration out of the looking glass, and an OpenGL shader that can be used with MPlayer to take the tiled videos from the vimeo link and display them on the LG.

It's a really cool effect in person - I'm totally glad I sprung for one!

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Re:The Looking Glass – Holographic Display by kelvin0 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:57PM (#18820634)

OK, so the fact that it isn't (yet) supported by Linux completely invalidates the concept?

I've heard of Linux zealots, but this is something else..

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Re:The Looking Glass – Holographic Display by aetios on Thursday January 03, 2019 @07:34PM (#18820883)

I think he means there's no point hooking it up to Linux if there is no support :)

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