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Yeah, that's not remotely accurate.

45 angles for each pixel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EA2FQXs4dw&t=4m18s

That's far more complicated than a lenticular sheet glued to LCD.

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I was wrong - Miraste shard an article where apparently the combining technology really is a lenticular lens.

Undoubtedly it's harder to build, but it is the same technology.

Here's an article which discusses it, and it appears to explicitly not be lenticular.

https://www.engineering.com/ARVR/ArticleID/17613/In-Through-...

"There’s a lot more to the evolution, enough for a book on the subject, but if you had to create a list of what kinds of technology and methodology went into the Looking Glass (since they do not list it), it might look like this:"

Pure speculation.

That's not what that article says. It's speculation from before the display launched. Here is a later article in which the founder of the company says it is lenticular:

https://hackaday.com/2018/11/21/supercon-alex-hornsteins-adv...

"since he happens to be head honcho at a holographic display company he can show us the result. Looking Glass Factory’s display panel uses a lenticular lens to combine the multiple images into a hologram, and is probably one of the most inexpensive ways to practically display this type of image."

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