A window lets light through.
For 3,500 years glass has done one thing with light: let it pass. Whatever you see in a window is somewhere else, and nothing stays when you look away.
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Light, held.
The Voxmere Cube draws a true 3D image inside a block of solid glass. Walk around it and the image has a back. No headset, no glasses.
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How a block of glass learned to hold light
Glass has held light in three ways. Turn each one and see what is left.
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Fig. 1. A clear block at 0° and 90°. Light passes through; nothing is held. -
A plate keeps a picture.
A photograph, a screen and even a hologram on film hold their image on a surface. Turn one 90° and the picture becomes a line. It was only ever drawn for one side.
0°90°Fig. 2. The mountain drawn on a plate inside the block. At 90° only its edge is left. -
A block holds the light itself.
Inside the Cube, two infrared beams cross. Where they meet, and only there, the glass glows. Voxmere moves that meeting point through the whole block 30 times a second, so every point of the image sits at its own depth. Turn it to 180° and you are looking at the mountain’s far side.
90°180°Fig. 3. The same mountain written into the volume. At 90° it is still a mountain; at 180° you see its back.
Turn it yourself.
Drag or swipe the Cube, or use the arrow keys. Every side you find was always there.
Skip to sizesArrow keys turn 15°, Shift with an arrow turns 45°, Home returns to 0°.
- Peak: an alpine survey in 13 contour lines. The north face is the steep one.
- Ammonite: a spiral shell of 3.4 turns. Face-on it is a spiral, edge-on a lens.
- Orrery: four planets on tilted orbits, moving. The Cube redraws its whole volume 30 times a second.
Two sizes.
The same glass and the same light. Cube 20 holds eight times the image volume, and weighs seven times as much.
| Specification | Cube 10 | Cube 20 |
|---|---|---|
| Glass block | 100 × 100 × 100 mm 3.9 in | 200 × 200 × 200 mm 7.9 in |
| Image volume | 84 mm on each side | 172 mm on each side |
| Points of light | 512 per side | 1,024 per side |
| Refresh | 30 full volumes per second | |
| Viewing | 360°, any number of people, no glasses | |
| Readable in | A daylit room, up to 1,000 lux | |
| Weight with base | 3.1 kg 6.8 lb | 22.4 kg 49.4 lb |
| Base | Anodised aluminium, 24 mm | Anodised aluminium, 32 mm |
| Power | USB-C, 45 W | USB-C, 140 W |
| Glass | Clear or Smoke | |
| Price | CHF 1,290 | CHF 2,490 |
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