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this is absolutely incredible

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it's like i could reach out and touch it

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this is the looking glass portrait if it looks familiar to you that's probably

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because we took a look at this technology not that long ago and

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promised you'd get a chance to check it out in person very soon the portrait is

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finally the first consumer device that looking glass has released following an

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enormous kickstarter campaign last year that raised over two and a half million

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us dollars and now that these things are getting into real people's hands we're

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going to take a closer look at its capabilities

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capabilities like showing this 3d logo from our sponsor see sonic never skimp

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now it's no secret we're starting to hit the point of diminishing returns for 2d

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display technology so what's the next frontier

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it's right here the looking glass portrait is a holographic

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three-dimensional display that does away with technological limitations like only

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working for a single viewer or requiring nerdy glasses to get the effect and guys

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it's it's freaking awesome now we visited

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looking glass factory out in brooklyn a couple of years ago and took a look at

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this same technology back when it was in its infancy back then the 4k developer

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kit cost a tear-inducing 3 000 us

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dollars and that was for a product that was unabashedly a dev kit with the usual

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bugs now the portrait here is not only ten times cheaper ringing in at three

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hundred dollars but it's gotten some major improvements since we last saw it

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compared to the first generation the highly refractive block of material

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that's in front of the display has been completely axed thanks to a new lens

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design this gives it way more depth to

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your eye and makes the whole device thinner and there's more horsepower

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under the hood including the ability to run headlessly thanks to the integrated

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raspberry pi 4 which by the way actually makes up the majority of the thickness

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of the device at the back here the display and lens stack are just

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millimeters thick on their own with this kind of illuminated frame thing not

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actually being integral to its function while the raspberry pi 4 and the custom

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display management at the back fill out the rest of the metal case on the right

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side you've got three capacitive touch buttons for toggling through your

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hologram library as well as playing and pausing and then down below those are

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two momentary buttons and an indicator led for power and display status off on

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the right side there's usbc for power and data HDMI in and a headphone jack so

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that you can pipe audio out to external speakers not that i would necessarily

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recommend sitting and watching movies on this thing

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and there's a little foot that clips on the bottom as well as a quarter inch

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thread if you want to put it on a stand and that's about it it's i mean it is

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just a display after all but like look at it

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the thing is usually we don't have any way of showing you guys this kind of 3d

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effect thanks to your flat youtube compressed viewing experience but

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because the portrait uses a lens system rather than polarized glasses like a

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theater or individual screens like in vr

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the parallax is visible anywhere within its 58 degree viewing cone so we can

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just move the camera or the device around and see our image from new

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perspectives do you guys remember those like kids hologram books or like

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bookmarks and stuff like that well those are called lenticular books and

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basically it's a plastic screen filter over top of an image that only displays

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part of an image underneath from certain angles well fundamentally

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that's how this works but instead of it having two or three or

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maybe four angles the portrait can do up

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to 100 angles at once which makes it

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appear much more seamless as you're moving around as impressive as the

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hardware is the real wizardry and the labor room creating this is the software

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that goes with the looking glass portrait the primary tool is the

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holoplay studio so let's fire that up and also hydrate from

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my lttstore.com water bottle

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there are four different ways that you can load in a hologram if your phone has

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a depth sensing camera like the iphone 12 pro then you can drop a portrait mode

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photo in and you can make something like this one

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in a flash and this is really cool after

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the fact you can actually adjust the focus and the i love this depthiness of

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it depending on what looks good to your eye let's see how much depth venus do we

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want that's too depthy i think you can also

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load in an rgbd photo or video so it has

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half RGB pixels and half depth pixels

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a quilt photo which is a compressed looking glass factory light field image

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format where many views are arranged in a specific way to fit the display and

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finally a light field photo set which is

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essentially an array of bullet time style photos once you've got all the

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photos and videos you like you just press sync playlist and it'll wipe out

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anything that's already loaded in standalone mode and replace it with

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whatever you've got in holo play studio now here's something that i don't really

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have an answer to right now the portrait can display a variable

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amount of lenticular viewing angles between 45 and 100

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just how that is done i'm sure they would never tell but it's

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got me curious are they displaying at 100 angles all

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the time or are they just up sampling 45 angle content are they

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digitally adjusting the lens somehow we don't really know and the assembly is

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actually specifically calibrated on a device by device basis so we don't have

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a way to find out without potentially ruining it

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so i guess we'll just leave it be then

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no i'm just kidding let's go ahead and open this thing up

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i guess we didn't really talk about the wall mounting option earlier so you can

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also wall mount it so we've got these four

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screws oh you oh hey how you doing so there's the built-in heat sink for the

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raspi okay so that's cooling our

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CPU as well as our dram and

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okay

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we're gonna need a number one

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got it now that's interesting lifting off this thermal pad confirms this is a

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2 gig raspberry pi 4b we've got a couple of custom little pcbs

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here that route power and HDMI over to the front of the device none of the

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other inputs are used though because that's where this comes in

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we take out these two screws and we can remove this hat daughter board that's

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actually uh it's ribbon cabled on well

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um good luck everybody there we go

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okay that's kind of crazy so this is like a solid

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40 bucks worth of hardware on this built-in computer for what

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you would think they would want to make as bare bones as possible since it's

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just a display but you can actually see this daughter board is bigger than the

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motherboard yeah so plugged into the usb port there's a 16 gig little sandisk

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storage so they curiously are just using off-the-shelf usb drives for the onboard

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storage instead of soldering it right to the board i mean that that's a good

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thing and then there's actually an ARM processor right in the middle here hold

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on a second there's two 16 gig storage modules in here there's a 16 gig micro

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sd as well i didn't even notice

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what are you why one must be file system

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yes and the other would be maybe like firmware even yeah

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what we don't know is the exact way that these two boards each with their own

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storage and processing share the various tasks but what we do know is that

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there's clearly no digitally controlled lens it's got to be

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it's got to be solid state i don't know how much else this is going to tell us

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to be honest with you sort of splitting the display away from the lenticular

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layer yeah because the whole like it looks

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thicker than it is this is not anything this is just like a front illumination

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thing that makes it look cool they could have absolutely made this thing thinner if they really wanted to although it

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might hurt the effect somewhat so the actual total thickness is like

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this that's pretty cool i'm surprised at how low the markup is on this thing i

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mean i know it's 300 for like a six point whatever inch display but

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that's that's a 2k panel capacitive buttons there's 32 gigs of storage on

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like off the shelf micro sd and usb sticks a raspi 4b like i mean this is a

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custom board what are they doing

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they're having fun they're having fun you know what

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i respect that even though there's not a whole lot in

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here in terms of expensive hardware for the price

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for the amount of development work and how niche this thing is it honestly

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looks like a pretty compelling value for the right customer which raises the

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question who is that exactly

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i mean i could see people buying something like this as a flex tier photo

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frame to have on their desk then i could see a smaller subset of

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people that might use it for actual work like maybe you want to preview your

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designs that you create in unity or

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blender or something like that just you know right on your desk without having

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to put on a headset but maybe i should just let you guys tell me

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are you the kind of person who needs this product

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and if you are something to watch out for is be forewarned you're going to

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have to have some serious GPU grunt in order to run this thing i mean rendering

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60 FPS video that's one thing rendering 60 FPS video for between 45 and 100

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different viewing angles is a whole other kind of worm so even though the

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resolution is relatively low it can actually be quite demanding to run

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if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check a look at our looking glass

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factory tour where we checked out some of their more commercial oriented

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solutions the big one that runs at 8k

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absolutely mind-blowing and they've got a new one a new 8k

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oh apparently it just came out oh that's the email they just sent

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oh wow this is awkward timing