Software

Version 1.2.0

HoloPlay Service facilitates communication between your computer and any connected Looking Glass devices. Required for Looking Glass applications and development tools.

Changelog

• Looking Glass Portrait support

• Mac M1 support

Resources

• Documentation

HoloPlay Studio is the hologram companion app for your Looking Glass Portrait. With it, you can import holograms from a variety of sources, make minor edits to any hologram you create, and sync to your Looking Glass Portrait for Standalone Mode.

Supports iPhone Portrait Photos, Light Field Photosets, and RGBD and Quilt media.

NOTE: This is a beta release. More information about this in the documentation.

Requirements

• Windows 10 and MacOS Catalina or newer that have USB-C and HDMI ports. We recommend running HoloPlay Studio on computers with a dedicated graphics cards. Computers that only have integrated graphics will provide a lower quality experience.

Resources

• Documentation

Depth Recorder is an interactive application for creating holographic video clips for the Looking Glass Portrait using an Azure Kinect. You can view a live stream from the Azure Kinect in your Looking Glass Portrait and record a 10 second clip that can be stored on your device for playback in Standalone mode. Get playful — try out different backgrounds and particle effects to bring your capture to life!

Depth Recorder is currently Windows only and requires a discrete graphics card. We recommend a GTX 1650 or better.

Diorama is an interactive application that allows you to load in Portrait mode and other depth photos and compose a scene with them. Powered by Giphy, you can create an animated scene around your photo with lights, word art, backgrounds, and gifs. When you're happy with your composition, you can export a video clip to store on your device for playback in Standalone mode!

Diorama requires a discrete graphics card. We recommend a GTX 1650 or a Radeon Pro 5000M series for Macs.

Currently, M1 Macs are not supported.

A model importer for the Looking Glass. It can load gltf's, glb's, and obj's. It can also work with Leap Motion. Requires HoloPlay Service.

Changelog (1.2.0)

• Looking Glass Portrait support

• Quilt video recording and quilt image screenshot functionality

• Improved loading speed

Resources

• Documentation

Tools Used

• Unity

The HoloPlay Core SDK is a cross-platform software development kit that makes your existing 3D software compatible with the Looking Glass. Use your application’s current UI and workflow to build seamless plug and play experiences for your end users.

Developers can use any rendering backend (DirectX, OpenGL, Metal, Vulkan, WebGL) and any windowing library (e.g. GLFW, Qt, SDL). Beyond that, in order to render to the Looking Glass display, your application must be able to:

• Generate a borderless fullscreen window at a specific position

• Distort the camera's projection matrix

• Render multiple views to a texture

• Apply a shader to the texture

Also, your end user must have HoloPlay Service installed on their machine.

Resources

• Documentation

Bring 3D scenes and characters to life using the Unity Plugin for your Looking Glass. Requires HoloPlay Service.

Changelog

(1.4.0)

• Looking Glass Portrait support

• Device emulation

• Quilt video recording for playback in Standalone mode for the Looking Glass Portrait

• Improved dual monitor application functionality

(1.4.1)

• Recording fix when no device connected

• Fixed bug of red tint in editor on some Mac systems

• Improved OSX build windowing

(1.4.2)

• FFmpeg encoder fixes

• Setting good defaults for NVENC and exposing parameters

• Windowing fix on Windows builds

Requirements

• Unity 2018.4 or later (Unity 2019 LTS recommended)

• Unity 2020 is not supported for Mac

• M1 Macs are not yet supported

• Built-in render pipeline only (no URP or HDRP support)

• Ubuntu 18.04 for Linux - does not include quilt recording functionality

Resources

• Documentation

• SDK License

Note that the HoloPlay Unity Plugin and applications built on top of the Plugin are not open source and is provided under license.

The source code is provided as an example of what’s possible with the Looking Glass.

Create beautiful holographic scenes and animations with our Blender add-on. Requires HoloPlay Service.

Features

• Looking Glass Portrait support

• Render preview that captures your editor viewport

• Still and animation rendering

Requirements

• HoloPlay Service

• Blender 2.92 or later

Resources

• Documentation

The HoloPlay Plugin for UE4 allows you to see, play, and interact with your digital creations in 3D within Unreal Engine. Requires HoloPlay Service.

Changelog (1.1.0)

• Looking Glass Portrait support

• PNG sequence export functionality

• Removed need to compile plugin

Requirements

• Currently supports UE4.26

• Windows only

• HoloPlay Service

Resources

• Tutorial

• Documentation

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is open source software for manipulating and displaying scientific data. It comes with state-of-the-art tools for 3D rendering, a suite of widgets for 3D interaction, and extensive 2D plotting capability.

VTK is a C++ library with several higher-level language wrappers, including Python and Java, and is the core for ParaView and 3D Slicer. To use VTK with Looking Glass you have to build VTK from source code.

VTK provides support for all Looking Glass displays provided you have the HoloPlay Core SDK. When building a VTK project from source, you must enable the flag in CMAKE and must also reference the dynamic libraries and header files provided by the SDK.

For more information, view the documentation.

PyMOL for the Looking Glass requires HoloPlay Service. Download the latest version here.

View 3D molecular models in PyMOL as holograms with an easy one-time setup.

• VR/AR headgear-free viewing experience.

• Compatible with Windows 10, Mac 10.12+ and Linux CentOS7+/Ubuntu 18.04+. Discrete graphics card recommended for optimal performance.

• Ready to use with all Looking Glass displays with Incentive PyMOL version 2.4.0. For open-source PyMOL support, click here.

Download the info sheet for more information about setup and compatibility.

Maestro for the Looking Glass requires HoloPlay Service. Download the latest version here.

Build 3D molecular models in Maestro and view them as holograms with an easy setup.

More on this official Looking Glass integration:

• VR/AR headgear-free viewing experience.

• Compatible with Windows 10, Mac 10.12+ and Linux CentOS 7+ / Ubuntu 18.04+. Discrete graphics card recommended for optimal performance.

• Ready to use with all Looking Glass displays with Maestro 2020-2.

Download the info sheet for more information about setup and compatibility.

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ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques.

ParaView nightly builds include native support for all Looking Glass displays.

Please visit the Looking Glass ParaView documentation for:

• instructions on how to use ParaView

• example datasets to explore

Please complete the Getting Started guide for your device before using ParaView.

3D Slicer is an open source software platform for medical image informatics, image processing, and three-dimensional visualization. Built over two decades through support from the National Institutes of Health and a worldwide developer community, Slicer brings free, powerful cross-platform processing tools to physicians, researchers, and the general public.

Provides support for viewing over 50 file formats, including DICOM, neuroimaging, and microscopy.

3D Slicer Preview Releases include native support for all Looking Glass displays.

For more information, visit the documentation.

Please complete the Getting Started guide for your device before using 3D Slicer.

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