This Digital Picture Frame Displays Your Memories as Holograms
Looking Glass’ Musubi turns photos and videos into floating 3D images – no Wi-Fi or subscriptions needed.
Brooklyn : Looking Glass, a company from Brooklyn, has been working on 3D screens for almost ten years. Now they have made Musubi, which is like a digital picture frame but with holograms.
You can put any photo or video on it. The frame uses smart computer programs to find the most important part and make it float in 3D space. It could be your child’s first steps or a birthday party. The 3D image can be seen from almost all sides – about 170 degrees around the frame.
The top leader of Looking Glass, Shawn Frayne, says they want to bring holograms to everyone. He thinks it gets as close as possible to the holograms we see in movies and TV shows about the future.
The Musubi is different from other new devices. For example, the gaming company Razer showed something similar at a big meeting this year, but their device is more like a talking character for your desk. The Musubi is just for looking at photos and videos in 3D.
This picture frame is 7 inches wide. You don’t need Wi-Fi, an app, or a monthly payment to use it. There are no cameras on it either. To make the photos and videos into 3D images, you use a free computer program from Looking Glass. After you fix them on your computer, you can send them to the frame with a USB cable. It can hold up to 1,000 pictures. Videos can only be 30 seconds long because they take more space. You can plug it into a wall or use its battery, which works for three hours.