Looking Glass' Musubi Showcases Its Holographic Display In A Consumer-friendly Package

Looking Glass has been doggedly committed to making holographic displays nan adjacent large point since 2019, and pinch its caller Musubi integer photograph frame, it mightiness yet beryllium offering its tech astatine a value that's difficult to deny. Musubi is scheduled to commencement shipping successful June, and dissimilar nan company's previous, much developer-focused kits, nan company's caller show only costs $149.

Musubi is simply a 7-inch framework pinch a solid separator and achromatic matte that acts arsenic nan location for immoderate contented you person and upload to it. Looking Glass says nan Musubi tin shop up to 1,000 images aliases 30-second video clips, and is capable to show your contented for 3 hours connected a azygous charge, aliases indefinitely if you plug it successful pinch an included wall adapter. You'll person to person your photos and videos into holographic files utilizing Looking Glass' free desktop app successful bid to show them, but erstwhile they're converted, each you request to do is transportation them complete USB-C to commencement showing them disconnected connected Musubi.

Looking Glass has offered aggregate versions of this conception earlier — including nan compact, $300 Looking Glass Go from 2023 — but Musubi is expected to beryllium nan champion practice of nan company's existent show stack. The framework uses nan Hololuminescent Display (HLD) exertion Looking Glass announced successful 2025, which "combines 2D show layers pinch a 3D holographic volume" to show disconnected holograms that are viewable by aggregate group astatine nan aforesaid time, without nan request for eye-tracking aliases glasses. It's difficult to get a consciousness for nan full Musubi acquisition from the company's YouTube video alone, but nan results look novel, if a spot limited.

You tin pre-order Musubi starting coming done Looking Glass' Kickstarter campaign. For nan first 24 hours of nan company's Kickstarter, nan framework will beryllium disposable for $99. Afterwards, Musubi will waste for $149. Anything connected Kickstarter should beryllium treated pinch a definite magnitude of caution, but Looking Glass' past campaigns and nan company's committedness to commencement shipping Musubi successful June does propose it’s assured nan framework will beryllium released without issues.