The Looking Glass Factor by Judith M. Goldberger

But upgrading the display with an Interaction Accessory Pack (a Leap Motion sensor) brings more interactivity. Looking Glass's front-facing surface is touch-responsive, so you can use pinching, poking, stretching, and other standard methods to zoom in, pan, and rotate the loaded 3D models and scenes. The company has assembled about three dozens holographic content and games, freely accessible to users. You load the model into the Looking Glass environment as OBJ, FBX, and other neutral 3D formats exportable from CAD programs. The display units support content authored in Unity, Unreal, Three.js, and more. Note: The Looking Glass displays are part of this video report. With a 15.6” display area, it weights 25lbs. It had its own built-in Intel NUC 8 VR NUC8i7HVK computer. The Pro, on the other hand, doesn't need a connection to a PC or Workstation. The latest addition to the company's portfolio is The Looking Glass Pro, with a touch screen panel on the side (for file loading and navigation). The units don't have processing power in themselves they have to borrow CPU and GPU capacity from an external source.

They both require their own power source, but also a connection to a PC or workstation that meets system specs (Intel Core i5 or above, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or above). The next step up, the Looking Glass Large, is 15.6” at 8 million pixels, weighs 18.6 lbs. The entry product, the Looking Glass Standard, is 8.9” at 4 million pixels in resolution. The company has been developing and selling the displays for about three years now.

However, interactivity and built-in compute power bring the latest incarnation of the company's technology to a whole new level. As a static display unit, The Looking Glass Factory's holographic display box offers the Wow factor, but not much else.

The Looking Glass Factor by Judith M. Goldberger