Looking Glass Factory Inc.
Looking Glass Go crowdfunding ends, 1,547 people supported 64.7 million yen ……
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Looking Glass (Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York, CEO: Sean Frain), which develops and sells hologram products, has announced that it will be launching the latest portable hologram product starting from 22:00 on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, Japan time. The domestic crowdfunding pre-order service for the holographic display “Looking Glass Go(TM)” ended on February 28th (Wednesday), and we announced that we received support of 64,707,055 yen from 1,547 people.
The domestic crowdfunding service, which set a target amount of 5 million yen and was co-sponsored by Kibidango and GREEN FUNDING, achieved the target amount on the day of its launch. There are also many Japanese supporters of the US Kickstarter crowdfunding service, with Japan ranking first in the number of supporters for crowdfunding at 43% of the total, followed by the US at 30%, and the amount of support is… The total amount for Japan and the US reached
approximately 167 million yen.
Kibidango [Kibidango] https://kibidango.com/2497
GREEN FUNDING https://greenfunding.jp/kibidango/projects/7956 Regarding the termination of the domestic crowdfunding service, Looking Glass co-founder and CEO Shawn Frayne said the following. “We would like to once again express our deep gratitude to everyone who has shared our journey with Looking Glass Go through crowdfunding. We can’t wait for it to officially ship. For those of you who are about to experience Looking Glass for the first time, we say welcome to a new headset-free future.”
Ryota Matsuzaki, President and Representative Director of Kibidango, said: “We are very happy to be able to support Looking Glass’s new challenge of carving out the future of spatial computing through this crowdfunding together with Japanese supporters. Kibidango is proud to support Looking Glass’s efforts. We hope to continue supporting them in the future.”
Since its announcement, Looking Glass Go has attracted a lot of attention both domestically and internationally as the industry’s first pocket-sized spatial AI display. Looking Glass promoted the product at CES held in Las Vegas, USA in January 2024, and was promoted by Wired (https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-of-ces-2024/) and PCMag ( In addition to leading tech media such as
https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-best-of-ces-2024), the US NBC news program “Today” (https://www.today.com/video/check
-out-some-of-the-top-new-products-from-ces-2024-202063941710). On February 29th (Thursday) after the end of the crowdfunding service, Looking Glass CEO Sean Frain will come to Japan and hold a “Founder’s Edition Festival”, where he will personally present autographed Looking Glass to Founders Edition backers. We handed over the Go and thanked them for their support.
About Looking Glass Go
Looking Glass Go, the world’s first* portable holographic display, combines the realism of high-definition holograms with the creativity of generative AI to bring images and memories to 3D life without the need to wear a VR or AR headset. It gives users a whole new way to share their experiences visually with others. For more information on Looking Glass Go, please visit
https://lookingglassfactory.com/looking-glass-go.
Note: Based on our research
About Looking Glass
Based in Brooklyn, New York and Hong Kong, Looking Glass creates new realities with holograms and conversational AI. Looking Glass’s holographic display leverages proprietary light field technology to enable group viewing in 3D without the need for headsets or head tracking. Most recently, we introduced Liteforms(TM), the first conversational holograms that infuse that technology with the power of generative AI. For more information about Looking Glass, please visit https://www.lookingglassfactory.com.
Looking Glass, Looking Glass Go are trademarks of Looking Glass Factory. All other registered trademarks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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