Looking Glass Starts Shipping Its 8K Holographic Display (techcrunch.com) 26
Looking Glass is now shipping its 8K holographic display, which utilizes 33.2 million pixels and 45-element light field to provide a 3D effect. TechCrunch reports: The target markets here are medical imaging, mapping, automotive, architecture and engineering. A press release tied to the announcement features a handful of folks in these categories who are excited at what such a technology could mean, going forward. Here's Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri: "Having access to a glasses-free holographic display is a massive breakthrough, and presents an exciting prospect for teams working in immersive computer graphics, visualization and content creation. The Looking Glass holographic display provides a stunning level of realism, and we look forward to seeing the innovations that emerge with the support of Unreal Engine generated content."
The company is only offering pricing quotes by request through its site -- which means it's pretty likely to be cost prohibitive for those just looking to augment a remote working setup. As noted in the earlier piece, the company is targeting enterprise users with early applications -- organizations that generally have money to spend on state of the art hardware. More consumer-focused applications, including gaming, could be coming a ways down the road.
The company is only offering pricing quotes by request through its site -- which means it's pretty likely to be cost prohibitive for those just looking to augment a remote working setup. As noted in the earlier piece, the company is targeting enterprise users with early applications -- organizations that generally have money to spend on state of the art hardware. More consumer-focused applications, including gaming, could be coming a ways down the road.
Not a holographic Display (Score:4, Informative)
When you can get up, walk around to the rear and see the bikini model's ass, then walk around to the front to see her tits....now, THAT will be a holographic display.
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When you can get up...
That's got nothing to do with the display.
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Ho' lographic.
That's a pornographic display (Score:5, Funny)
I think you're describing pornographic. This display is holographic.
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Pornoalcoholographic. 3 sins in one! I'll be mega-rich! And 4-Sin tech, the VegasTron, will come out soon after.
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You only see that when she's walking away from you. It's nothing to do with holographic tech.
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A holographic display has nothing to do with holographic tech.
Got it. /s
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That would be a holographic *projection* display, as in it projects the image into the air somehow. A display that is merely holographic is flat.
It looks interesting but 8k is a bit misleading I think. From what I can tell it's 8k total so the actual resolution of a single image is a lot lower than that, and since you have a maximum of 2 eyes you can only ever see 2 of them at once.
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You are wrong about the criteria for a holographic display.
Holographic photos exist which of course you cannot see from the back, but you *can* freely around in front of them to see things from different angles. What you perceive, like in the real world, is a function of the angle that things are being viewed at, and so phenomena like parallax and depth of field are present.
The fact that they are actually saying that this uses a light field to provide the 3d effect suggests that even if it may not tec
Estimated price (Score:2)
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6k according to rumors.
I demand full 8k!!!!
What games??? (Score:1)
Re: What games??? (Score:2)
It still won't run Crysis
The next step, and selling point? (Score:1)
8K pornhub videos. Hope your ISP doesn't have bandwidth caps...
8K panel, not 8K graphics (Score:4, Insightful)
Don't read the "8K" bit and think "Why do we need something that high resolution?"
The 8K resolution's 33.2 million pixels get divided between the 45 perspectives, so each of your eyes only sees 737 thousand pixels, roughly equivalent to a resolution of 1145 x 644 per eye.
If anything, this sort of display could really take advantage of a much higher resolution panel.
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What's the perceived depth of such display? Is is the size of the screen of because of the resolution it's less than that?
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Looking Glass's FAQ says that you can get away with around plus or minus 4cm of depth from the midplane before image quality degrades significantly. So, 8cm total depth, I guess you could say. The thing is, I don't know which model that applies to. Their first model is only 22.6 cm diagonal, so 8cm depth is actually not bad for that. But 8cm of depth for the new full-sized one that is 81.3 cm diagonal? That's another story. I'm also not sure what they mean when they say image quality degrades the farther yo
what defines Holographic? (Score:3)
I'm familiar with a variety of methods for 3D viewing but I found myself wondering just where the dividing line is on holography and not holography. Many 3D methods and even some 2D ones get called "Holography"* but aren't so one can't just go by the name,
The video in the link doesn't show you anything that demonstrated 3D at all. but at one point it says "light field" which is getting like Holography. But is it?
just to back up. Binocular vision systems do 3D perception but are not holography. If you
prices (Score:2)
From the ./ summary:
"The company is only offering pricing quotes by request through its site..."
Only for the 4K model. The other models all have prices:
The Looking Glass 8.9" Development Kit $599
The Looking Glass 15.6" Development Kit $3,000
The Looking Glass 15.6" Pro. $6,000
but but (Score:2)
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Oh you missed the 2nd video, you have to watch it with your other eyeball. You can watch it later if you have a good memory.
I'm showing my age here (Score:2)
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There was a newer Thief game, but it was produced by Eidos Montreal.
Damn marketers redefining words (Score:2)
This is a lenticular display [wikipedia.org]. You eyes see two of a limited set of images depending on its angle relative to the screen. This one produces 45 angles of view. In that respect, it'll be inferior (both in resolution and angular granularity) than VR goggles. Its only use case are if you need to work without wearing VR goggles, or if multiple people need to see the same 3D display simultaneously.
What its value. (Score:2)
Yea it is a cool gimmick. However, I don't see too much value in it.
Holographic in the sense.. (Score:1)
Like those old 3D holographic trading cards that used lasers to record the image onto the card's surface.
While the colors don't look as funky as those old cards did, you can still see a lot of distortion in the still image shown on the website. Unless there is a 2D mode where these distortions disappear, it's not going to be very usable as a general purpose display.