LOOKING GLASS
musubi
TMthe first consumer holographic photo & video frame.
Wired
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.
Engadget
Looking Glass' Musubi showcases its holographic display in a consumer-friendly package
The photo and video frame is available to back through Kickstarter for $149 and ships in June.
Ian Carlos CampbellContributing Reporter
Wed, March 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM GMT+8
Works with Photos & Videos You Already Have
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
musubi works with the photos and short videos (up to 30 seconds) you already have.
The free software included with every musubi purchase converts those photos and videos into holographic moments that appear to float within the display. This is made possible by a new type of machine-learning algorithm that constructs a fully three-dimensional scene from flat media.
But you won't have to think about any of that powerful technology under the hood. All you have to do is click "Convert", loading one, ten, or as many as 1,000 holographic moments into your musubi frame over USB-C in seconds.
The musubi software also gives you the option to have the background fully removed (for the feeling of a frozen-in-time memory), or to leave the background intact for more context, like you see below:
Simple By Design
The conversion process takes just a few seconds and is done completely locally. Meaning you never have to wonder if the big AI companies will see your memories. They won’t.
Once loaded, musubi runs completely standalone. Playback does not require Wi-Fi.musubi can run continuously via USB-C (included), or off of its internal rechargeable battery for up to 3 hours — making it easy to show, share, and gift.There’s a whole lot of technology under the hood in both the hardware and software powering musubi, from our patented Hololuminescent™ Display technology to the advanced image processing techniques (including Gaussian splatting methods) we use. But you won’t have to think about any of that. Just click “Convert”.
Designed for your Home & to be shared
What's in the box
Tech Specs
typical digital frame
flat
hololuminescent™
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.
And the Secret Menu
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 special cameras. You just need to load in photos or videos you already have and it'll just... work. But if you do happen to have a technical background, musubi is capable of doing even more. Experimenting with NeRFs, Gaussian splats, or photogrammetry? We have some secret menu tools just for you.
- 🆕 Import support for Gaussian splats
- Unity Templates
- Unreal Templates
- Blender Templates
- Adobe Premiere Pro & After Effects Motion Graphics Templates.
Speaking of advanced Gaussian splats: shoutout to our friends at Tavio in Japan who are exploring studio-level Gaussian splat photography. Using a camera array and their own splat software, they were able to capture portraits of families with detail that is unlike anything we've ever seen.
Check out a couple amazing captures below, yes, in a musubi. →
But that's not all!
For those in the display industry who've been curious about our HLD technology, musubi is your chance to get a bite-size taste. It runs on the same core technology as our 16", 27" and 86" enterprise HLD displays, making this Kickstarter a unique opportunity to experience HLD tech firsthand before deploying on a large scale for digital signage.
We Know Holograms
Looking Glass has been building holographic displays for over a decade.
- Founded in 2014
- World’s leading hologram & light field display company
- Dozens of patents granted and pending across hardware and software
- Millions of dollars of successfully fulfilled Kickstarter campaigns
We've built and shipped more advanced light field displays than any other group or company in the world. We've created dozens of our own software applications over the years. And we 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 in the Looking Glass team are excited to finally be able to bring the magic of holograms to your home.
