After announcing a 27-inch light field display a few months ago, Looking Glass has delivered on that and more, including software designed to make content creation for this new offering and its other light field displays easier and more expansive.
This past spring, Looking Glass announced it would be adding a 27-inch 3D light field display to its lineup and now that offering is shipping, along with a suite of software updates for creating content on its displays.
(Source: Looking Glass. Model from Holoxica.)
The new device is positioned between the company’s 32- and 65-inch light field displays. The company also offers a 16-inch version. These light field displays are engineered to provide immersive, multi-user 3D experiences without the need for a headset, glasses, or specialized gear.
With a resolution of 5K, the display enables users to replicate depth, material characteristics, translucency, and lighting effects as they appear in the real world. It has a sleek, 1-inch-thick design that delivers 12 inches of visual depth.
The display can be powered directly from an iPad, thanks to recent software breakthroughs, in addition to GPU-enabled computers, significantly reducing the operational footprint and delivering an approximate 60% system-level cost reduction compared to its predecessor, according to the company.
The Looking Glass 27” sells for $10,000.
In addition to the new display, Looking Glass has new software updates designed to make it easier for developers and creators to devise applications, show content, and leverage open-source tools.
For creating applications, there is the Bridge SDK for building or integrating custom content using a native SDK for OpenGL, DirectX, and Metal. An updated Unity plug-in makes it easier to visualize 3D Unity scenes, build fully interactive 3D applications for Looking Glass on PC, Mac, or iOS, and preview scenes with the live editor view in a Looking Glass display.
For showing content, Looking Glass updated Looking Glass Studio with support for iOS; it also lets users play back pre-rendered image and video content from Unity, Unreal, Blender, or standard 2D images and videos with generated depth. A 3D model viewer, available this month, lets users explode and slice views of their 3D models as well as view a list of submeshes. Also available in July, the 3D model viewer will offer CAD support.
Additionally, users can leverage several open-source plug-ins to customize software, with the open-sourced Unreal plug-in releasing this month.
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