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LOOKING GLASS

musubi

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the first consumer holographic photo & video frame.

Holograms from photos and videos you already have.

Includes free desktop app, no cloud connection needed.

Your memories are entirely your own.

A holographic time capsule.

Turn your photos and videos into holograms with one click.

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BOONE ASHWORTH
GEAR MAR 11, 2026 9:00 AM

This Digital Picture Frame Wants to Bring People Closer to a Holographic Future

Brooklyn-based Looking Glass has been dabbling in 3D screens for nearly a decade. It’s finally launching Musubi, an AI-powered holographic frame to bring your photos and videos to life.

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Looking Glass' Musubi showcases its holographic display in a consumer-friendly package

The $149 holographic photo and video frame has sold out its first production run.

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Contributing Reporter
Wed, March 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM GMT+8
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Works with Photos & Videos You Already Have

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We all have terabytes upon terabytes of photos and videos, buried in our phones. Gathering dust in shoeboxes in our attics. And in who knows how many cloud services. 

Our most meaningful moments, like weddings, first steps, fishing trips, and furry friends from long ago, are lost in that aether. And if we do find them, they are flat fragments, not quite like the moments we remember.

musubi brings these moments back to life, through the power of holograms.

How It Works

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Play back your video and holographically preserve the most meaningful instant inside of it.

musubi works with the photos and short videos (up to 30 seconds) you already have.

The free desktop app included with every musubi purchase converts photos and short video clips into holographic moments that appear to float within the display. It uses AI-powered Gaussian splatting to reconstruct depth from flat media, and the conversion runs locally on your Mac or PC.

There is no need to manage the technology under the hood. Click “Convert,” then transfer the results to musubi over USB-C. The frame can store approximately 1,000 holograms.

The musubi software can remove the background for the feeling of a moment frozen in time, or leave it intact to preserve more context, as shown below:

Simple by Design

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Connect to Mac or PC
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Select Photos or Short Clips
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Convert your media into holographic moments and transfer them to musubi
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The conversion takes just a few seconds and happens locally on your computer, so your photos and videos are not uploaded to Looking Glass or third-party AI services.

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Once loaded, musubi runs completely standalone. Playback does not require Wi-Fi.

musubi can run continuously using the included USB-C cable, or for up to three hours on its internal rechargeable battery — making it easy to show, share, and gift.

Both the hardware and software pack in a lot of technology, from our patented Hololuminescent™ Display to AI-powered Gaussian splatting. But you won’t have to manage any of that. Just click “Convert.”

Designed for Your Home and Made to Be Shared

What's in the Box

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musubi is like a holographic mixtape. Holograms loaded with the included free software play automatically in a continuous loop as soon as you press the power button. Use the controls on the back of the frame to adjust the volume or advance to a specific hologram.

Tech Specs

Display size
7” diagonal
Patented technology
Hololuminescent™ Display (HLD)
Aspect ratio
9:16
Holographic depth
~2”
Battery capacity
Rechargeable 2,000 mAh (up to 3-hour runtime)
Buttons
Power / Volume / Next
Power & Data
USB-C
Storage
~1,000 holograms
Audio
5W speaker
Product size
210 × 144 × 22 mm
Net weight
620 g / 1.37 lb*
* To be finalized

typical digital frame

2D display

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may require a subscription
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hololuminescent™

standalone
no subscription
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musubi™ is powered by Looking Glass’ Hololuminescent™ Display technology, with patents granted and pending around the world. Originally developed for large-scale holographic digital signage, now built into the first consumer holographic photo and video frame.

The "Secret Menu"

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A Gaussian splat scan of a bonsai tree displayed on musubi, captured by Looking Glass's Bryan Chris Brown.

musubi is designed to work out of the box with our free, easy-to-use software for anyone, regardless of technical skill. You don’t need to think about 3D capture, rendering pipelines, or spatial media formats. You don’t need a special camera. Just load the photos or videos you already have, and it works.If you have a technical background, musubi can do even more. Experimenting with NeRFs, Gaussian splats, or photogrammetry? The secret menu includes tools for you, too.

  • Gaussian splat import support
  • Unity templates
  • Unreal Engine templates
  • Blender templates
  • Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects motion graphics templates
These and other advanced tools are available for free in our HLD documentation.

For an advanced example, our friends at Tavio in Japan are exploring studio-level Gaussian splat photography. Using a camera array and their own splat software, they capture remarkably detailed family portraits.

Here are two of their captures displayed on musubi. ↓

Family portrait reconstructed by Tavio
Wedding portrait reconstructed by Tavio

But that's not all.

For those in the display industry who are curious about our HLD technology, musubi offers a bite-size taste. It runs on the same core technology as our 16", 27", and 86" enterprise HLD displays, providing a compact way to experience HLD before deploying it at a larger scale for digital signage.

Co-founder and CEO of Looking Glass seen here thinking about the future.

We Know Holograms

Looking Glass has been building holographic displays for over a decade.

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  • Founded in 2014
  • Pioneers in holographic and light field display technology
  • Dozens of patents granted and pending across hardware and software
  • Multiple successfully fulfilled Kickstarter campaigns

We've built and shipped advanced light field displays to developers and Fortune 100 companies around the world. We've also created dozens of software applications and directly manage our manufacturing, supply chains, and fulfillment. This product isn’t a leap into the unknown for us; it’s a distillation of what we know how to do and have already shipped at scale.

All of us on the Looking Glass team are excited to bring the magic of holograms to your home.

Holograms from the Looking Glass team

Why musubi?

Most folks know musubi as a food — one that a bunch of us on the Looking Glass team love.

The word has a deeper meaning, too. In Japanese, musubi can mean “knot” or “bind”: a connection across time and space. That is what we hope the product can do for you — connect your memories to the future through holograms.

And on a lighter note, a few of us think the product looks a little like Spam musubi.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to commonly asked questions

Is musubi available to order?

The first musubi™ production run is sold out. For quantity orders, please contact our sales team.

What kind of content can I display on musubi?

musubi is primarily designed to display holograms generated automatically from the photos and short videos (up to 30 seconds) you already have.

Advanced users can also display other holographic content created with our free tools. See the "Secret Menu" section above.

How do I upload photos and videos to musubi?

Use our free desktop app, available for macOS and Windows when units begin shipping, to import your favorite photos and videos.

For photos, you can keep or remove the background. For a video, choose a key moment to reconstruct in 3D. During playback, the video plays normally and then pauses on a holographic freeze frame at that moment.

The desktop app processes your media locally without cloud-based AI. Generated holograms transfer to musubi using the included USB-C to USB-C cable.

Do you use AI cloud services for your software?

No. The free desktop app supplied with every musubi purchase processes your media locally, so your photos and videos are not uploaded to Looking Glass or third-party AI services.

Which operating systems support the musubi desktop app?

The musubi desktop app will support macOS and Windows PCs.

What’s in the box?

Every musubi order includes:

  • 1 × musubi holographic photo frame
  • 1 × USB-C to USB-C cable
  • 1 × power adapter

What orientation does musubi work in?

musubi is a portrait-oriented device. Content exported from the app uses a 9:16 aspect ratio. Portrait-oriented photos and videos work best, but you can import any aspect ratio.

Does musubi have a speaker?

Yes. musubi has an onboard 5W speaker for audio playback from video files.

Does musubi have a battery?

Yes. musubi has a rechargeable 2,000 mAh battery that supports up to three hours of wireless playback.

Does musubi have Wi-Fi or Bluetooth?

No. Load content onto musubi over USB-C from a Mac or Windows PC; it then operates completely standalone.

Does musubi function as a secondary screen?

No. It is a standalone holographic photo and video frame.

How is this different from your other developer products (like Looking Glass Portrait or Looking Glass Go)?

Looking Glass Portrait and Looking Glass Go are developer kits powered by our light field display technology. musubi is a single-purpose consumer product designed specifically for showcasing holographic moments generated from photos and videos, powered by our Hololuminescent™ Display technology.

Is there a subscription required?

No subscription is required.

musubi™

$149

For quantity orders, please contact our sales team.