Looking Glass Factory Displays: Go, Portrait, HLD, Prices

The Looking Glass Go, the company's smallest light field display. Image: Looking Glass. Looking Glass has no part in this guide.

Which Looking Glass displays are on sale, and what they cost

The store on October 17, 2026, as seen from outside the US [9]:

Images: Looking Glass, from each product's page in its store.

Last checked October 17, 2026: Looking Glass store prices, read from outside the US.

The home page gave "Ships in October 2026" for the 86" HLD and 2 to 3 days for the others it lists [1]. Outside the US and Hong Kong, customs, duties and taxes are "the buyer's responsibility" [20].

Portrait or landscape: the 16" and 27" Light Field Displays come in either orientation [4][5]. The Go is a 9:16 screen [3], the HLD uses "standard 9:16 portrait video" [18], and "musubi is a portrait-oriented device" [8].

Light Field or HLD: the two kinds

Looking Glass's own advice: "For standard video, choose HLD. For interactive 3D content and applications, choose Light Field." [1]

Light Field Displays send many pictures of a scene at once, each in a slightly different direction: "up to 100 discrete views of a 3D scene" over a cone "roughly 58° wide", by Looking Glass's documentation [10] (53° on the 16- and 27-inch store pages [4][5]). Each eye gets a different view, and "As viewers move from side to side, they see different perspectives of the scene" [19]. Things look sharpest at one depth, the "Zero-Parallax Plane"; things in front of or behind it look blurrier [10].

Hololuminescent Displays (HLD), unveiled in September 2025 by the press items on its home page [1], work differently. The maker calls the design one that "embeds a fixed 3D holographic volume within a high-resolution 2D display" [1]. The box you see inside the screen "is a fixed volume that lives within the display's hardware" and cannot be changed [18], and "The holographic effect comes from framing the subject inside the display's fixed alcove" [18]: your picture plays as ordinary 2D video, placed inside that box. The HLD "does not require eye-tracking cameras" and is "intended to work as well for one person as it does for dozens of people at the same time" [6]. musubi uses the same technology in a 7-inch frame [8].

Looking Glass calls the pictures on both kinds "holograms". They are not holograms in the laser-recorded sense; see is "hologram" just a marketing term?

What you can show on one

A converted 2D picture is an AI estimate of depth, not footage shot in 3D. Both Studio and musubi's app convert on your own computer; musubi's page adds that "your photos and videos are not uploaded to Looking Glass or third-party AI services" [8][13].

What you need, and what it costs after you buy

The help center: "only the 16" and larger (27", 32", and 65") Light Field Displays require a computer to run. All other displays (Go, Portrait, HLD, musubi) do not" [22].

• Go: runs on power alone [11]; the iPhone or Android app loads photos [22]. With a computer, the minimum is "a PC with a GPU of 2060 or higher or a Mac with Apple Silicon Chip", sending 4K over USB-C [3][11].
• 16" Light Field: "a compatible PC (with GPU 2070 or higher) or a Mac Pro (Apple Silicon Chip)", or an iPad [2][4].
• musubi: the Mac or Windows app converts and copies files over USB-C; the frame then plays them for up to three hours on its battery [8].
• HLD: each comes with "a demo hologram media player (a customized Raspberry Pi 4)" [22].

On a subscription, the help center answers: "No. There is no subscription required." [23]

How Looking Glass differs from an eye-tracked 3D screen such as the Shift

Glasses-free 3D screens come in two designs. Looking Glass sends many views in fixed directions, so several people see depth at once and nothing has to find your eyes [2][10]. Eye-tracked screens, the Shift among them, find one viewer's eyes with a camera and aim one picture at each eye. Move the viewer below to see both:

The Owl3D Shift, our own product, is the second kind: a 14-inch 4K lenticular display used as a second monitor, for one viewer at a time. It needs no content made for it: the Owl3D app converts any window you drag onto it (a video, a game, a browser) from 2D to 3D instantly, as it plays. That is an AI conversion, not a film's own 3D version, and it needs a Windows PC with an NVIDIA RTX 30 series card or newer, or a Mac with Apple Silicon.

From Owl3DOwl3D ShiftA 14-inch Live 3D monitor: anything on its screen turns into glasses-free 3D.

Other glasses-free monitors, with their prices: glasses-free 3D monitors compared.

Frequently asked questions

What happened to the Looking Glass Portrait?

The Portrait came out at the end of 2020 at $399, "a holographic digital photo frame" launched on Kickstarter, by TechCrunch's account [14]. Looking Glass's help center now says: "The Looking Glass Portrait has since been discontinued and we are no longer producing or selling it at this time." [17] Its old store page returns "Page not found" and its old page on the main site a 404 [15][16].

If you already own one, its setup guide is still in the documentation, and Looking Glass Studio still syncs to "a connected Go or Portrait" [12][13]. The small ones today are the 6-inch Go and the 7-inch musubi; the help center calls musubi "a single-purpose consumer product", and the Portrait and Go "developer kits" [24].