Wanting Glass’ Musubi showcases its holographic show in a consumer-friendly package deal

Wanting Glass has been doggedly dedicated to creating holographic shows the subsequent large factor since 2019, and with its new Musubi digital picture body, it’d lastly offer its tech at a worth that is onerous to disclaim. Musubi is scheduled to start out transport in June, and in contrast to the corporate’s earlier, extra developer-focused kits, the corporate’s new show solely prices $149.

Musubi is a 7-inch body with a glass border and white matte that acts as the house for no matter content material you exchange and add to it. Wanting Glass says the Musubi can retailer as much as 1,000 pictures or 30-second video clips, and is ready to show your content material for 3 hours on a single cost, or indefinitely when you plug it in with an included wall adapter. You may should convert your pictures and movies into holographic information utilizing Wanting Glass’ free desktop app as a way to show them, however as soon as they’re transformed, all you might want to do is switch them over USB-C to start out exhibiting them off on Musubi.

Wanting Glass has provided a number of variations of this idea earlier than — together with the compact, $300 Looking Glass Go from 2023 — however Musubi is meant to be the most effective illustration of the corporate’s present show stack. The body makes use of the Hololuminescent Show (HLD) expertise Looking Glass announced in 2025, which “combines 2D show layers with a 3D holographic quantity” to point out off holograms which are viewable by a number of folks on the identical time, with out the necessity for eye-tracking or glasses. It is onerous to get a way for the entire Musubi expertise from the company’s YouTube video alone, however the outcomes appear novel, if a bit restricted.

You possibly can pre-order Musubi beginning at this time by means of Wanting Glass’ Kickstarter marketing campaign. For the primary 24 hours of the corporate’s Kickstarter, the body might be accessible for $99. Afterwards, Musubi will promote for $149. Something on Kickstarter must be handled with a certain quantity of warning, however Wanting Glass’ previous campaigns and the corporate’s dedication to start out transport Musubi in June does counsel it’s assured the body might be launched with out points.