That type of 3D is limited to one viewer, but is pretty cool.
I have a Fuji finepix 3d camera that makes awesome 3d pictures and even has a fairly crappy but working 3d display. Awesome even if the resolution is not great given today's tech. I'd love to shoot a lot of 3d pictures today and have my grandkids look at them sometime in the future with their then awesome 3d display tech. It's such a missed opportunity.
Too bad the economics aren't working out :(
You can convert your whole desktop/browser/youtube etc in realtime at slightly lower quality than offline conversion with a 5090 GPU.
I also have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-3D1 (eBay) that is similar. You should get one too.
Regardless, I currently print my good prints as "stereographs" and then use them in an old-fashioned stereo viewer. Kids enjoy that though.
Man, I wish there was a service that would do this. So tedious. Cutting the prints to the correct size, mounting on chipboard backing for stiffness, rounding the corners for aesthetics…
Claude and I created this tool for going from stereo-image to print-ready stereograph: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Stereographer
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807100527325.html
The github looks fabulous. I have currently very complicated transition lenses which seem to make 3d perceptions harder. :(
We hope real 3d camera will be a reality in some years.
I found this print that uses 'Integral imaging' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0MP6mW7BW0
https://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-49-8-1876 appears to be a real holographic display.
(Kind of like to get into old-school holography — now that I can actually afford a laser.)
One could quibble and claim that the nature of the 2D encoding in the case of the holographic universe is closer to that of the original concept, but it’s a weak defense at best. After all, the holographic universe isn’t even just about light, it proposes that matter and space itself is only apparently 3D.
The background environment is static, and I think it might be a seperate optical layer (maybe even an actual hologram?)
Will it work at different distances?
Will it look 3D still if I am still and nothing is moving in view?
I've got the original 8" Looking Glass Portrait (from the Kickstarter) and it's not bad? Works well enough to get the sense of depth but wouldn't fool anyone for a second[1][2].
> Will it look 3D still if I am still and nothing is moving in view?
Yes (or at least mine does)
[1] May be just my workflow, mind; it's not like I'm spending a huge amount of time crafting content for it.
[2] And I'd assume they've refined the technology since then.
Last Update 2020, 1,301, $844,621, Looking Glass: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/the-lookin...
Last Update 2023, 8,051, $2,511,785, Looking Glass Portrait: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-gl...
Last Update 2025, 2,365, $680,940, Looking Glass Go: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lookingglass/looking-gl...
First Kickstarter had pretty positive, seems like there were a lot of delivery issues with the later Kickstarters. Still, done three of these so far with at least some percentage actually getting something eventually.
It's difficult to tell on Kickstarter sometimes, since there's a bunch that have horrible order fulfillment, and collapsed delivering almost nothing, or pulled snatch and grab rug pulls, yet there's also a lot of people who expect it's like clicking "ship" on Amazon.
The Kickstarters actually have a lot of answers to the tech questions about turning flat photos into 3D images and taking 3D pictures, and the basic tech ideas being used.
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