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.

Holograms are a mainstay of science fiction, popping up across the great expanses of Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, and The Expanse. If a story is set in the future, or in space, it’s probably got a hologram in it. Unfortunately, this is less the case in real life, despite many tech companies eager to make holograms a reality.

The latest effort to beam a holographic device into our world comes from Looking Glass, a Brooklyn-based company that has been dabbling in 3D holographic screens for nearly a decade. Today, it announced the Musubi, a consumer-focused digital picture frame.

Upload any picture or video, and Musubi uses artificial intelligence to extract the most important part and hover it in ...