Looking Glass Unity Plugin

The Looking Glass Unity Plugin is how developers build for Looking Glass displays. I developed and maintained it over several years, and owned its developer-experience layer — the sample scenes, the setup wizard, the pairing and calibration flows, and the documentation.

That layer is the whole product, from a developer’s point of view. Someone evaluating a holographic display has an hour of patience, a device they’ve never used, and no mental model for what multi-view rendering does to their scene. Whether that hour ends in a working build or a closed tab is decided almost entirely by onboarding — and onboarding is unglamorous work that tends to go unowned unless someone insists on owning it.

Concretely that meant: nine sample scenes covering the real use cases rather than the easy ones, a setup wizard that handles the messy first-run states, pairing and calibration flows that make hardware variance invisible to the developer, and reference documentation written to be read by someone who is stuck.

The payoff is compounding and mostly invisible: every experience built on the plugin is one that didn’t need a bespoke rendering implementation, and every developer who got to a working build in an afternoon is one who stayed.

Key Features

• Interactive Scene Execution: Seamlessly run interactive scenes directly within the Unity editor or in packaged builds.
• iOS Compatibility: Develop and deploy apps tailored for iOS devices, expanding your reach.
• Hologram Recording: Capture stunning holograms directly from the Unity editor for playback or sharing.
• Hardware Integration: Utilize hardware buttons on Looking Glass devices for enhanced control (Windows only).
• Advanced Visuals: Leverage a post-processing stack specifically optimized for holographic content.
• Intuitive Controls: Implement a 3D cursor and orbit controls for natural, immersive holographic interactions.

The iOS sample scene

One of my later contributions was the iOS sample scene and its step-by-step setup guide, along with the script reference documentation that goes with it. Below are screenshots from the iOS integration process.

Plugin and related codes can be downloaded at the Unity Plugin Website.