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I'm still waiting for my light field displays.

https://www.holoxica.com/light-field-displays

Review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0touQFIwns

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I'm still waiting for my Helio Display - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliodisplay

It looks like the last time their website had content was 2016 - https://web.archive.org/web/20160726091433/http://www.io2tec...

But it is (was?) essentially a projector that used lasers and a small amount of ultrasound-generated fog (which they really downplayed in favour of a lot of talk about focused air currents) to project a 2D image in space. They termed it a mid-air hologram.

Perhaps not the best tech for viewing anything much, but surely we all want to recreate Princess Leia's projection from Starwars?

I've got a Looking Glass Portrait and it is spooky how effective it is (although it depends a lot on the quality of your depth map.) The software is terrible though and getting stuff onto it is a chore.

Their upcoming model (currently on Kickstarter) is internet connected, so will presumably be easier to put content on it

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-gl...

Is it worth $250 though? A 2 hr battery seems short, though if the software can automatically convert all my old photos into 3d, I would buy. (NERFS and gaussian splatting)

I think my friends would love to see our old memories come alive again

I've converted a bunch of old photos to 3D for my Looking Glass portrait -- it's more like 2.5D because the depth map generators tend to slice photos into planes which pop out but if you're artistically inclined, you can tweak the depth maps using Photoshop etc. -- and it is quite startling to see old photos come to (semi-) life.

So much marketing speak and AI hype yet not even the slightest hint at how the thing actually works. I presume it's a high-density LCD with some kind of micro-lens array in front of it?

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