Looking Glass Blocks

Looking Glass Blocks does one thing and does it in a way that removes most of the friction from the 2D-to-hologram path. The core loop is: upload a JPEG or PNG, Blocks generates a detailed depth map within seconds, and you get a hologram you can view in a browser, cast to a Looking Glass display, or embed with a single line of HTML. That last part is the real differentiator — the vendor's homepage pitches "a single line of code" to embed anywhere on the web, including galleries and the metaverse. For a photographer or digital painter who wants depth in a portfolio without opening Blender, that is a much shorter path than exporting a GLTF and wiring up a WebGL viewer yourself. The price of that simplicity is control. The homepage states plainly that no adjustments to lighting or texture are needed — "what you see is what you get." There is no documented manual depth-map editing, no re-roll, no per-region depth brush. You get what the automatic conversion produces. That is fine for stills with obvious subject separation (a portrait, a product shot, an architectural render) and less fine when the depth cue you want is an artistic choice rather than a physical one. Inputs are limited to JPEG and PNG. The homepage documents no video path and no OBJ or GLTF importer, so this does not replace a 3D pipeline — it sits after one, or alongside a camera. The homepage is also clear that sharing runs through a link, an HTML embed, or casting to Looking Glass hardware; there is no documented offline export format you own. One honest gap: no underlying depth model is named anywhere on the pages we reviewed, so the quality of the conversion can't be benchmarked against a known model — you're evaluating the output, not the engine. And we could not reach the vendor's pricing, docs, or integrations pages on this run, so we make no claims about cost, tiers, API availability, or what Blocks connects to. Where it fits: creators publishing stills who want the depth effect without the 3D toolchain. Where it doesn't: anyone who needs animation, imported models, or art-directed depth.