There are many tens of thousands of people who gave their life's work towards trying to achieve that dream of what comes after flat media.

What we see in the movies, that's the North Star for us of what we want to achieve.

So we made a lot of different inventions and we filled up dumpsters full of failed experiments.

And then eventually got to that MVP, which for us was this device called the Looking Glass.

My name is Sean Frane and I'm co-founder and CEO of Looking Glass Factory.

This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what

it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.

I'm your host, Noel Apert, and today how Sean Frane brought to life the thing you see

most in science fiction movies, the hologram.

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Sean Frane grew up dreaming of being an inventor.

His heroes were the inventors of yore like Thomas Edison.

Growing up, he was inspired by TV shows and movies, like Beyond 2000 and Back to the Future, too.

Specifically, when Marty McFly gets eaten by the holographic shark.

Believe it or not, to kick back and relax, he thinks about inventing other things while having a cold beer.

Sean recalls that Edison once said,

All you need to invent is an imagination and a pile of junk.

And he lives by that, with the added part of having his kids around in the mix.

He studied physics at MIT and post-graduation while everyone was heading to Silicon Valley.

He was curious if anyone could still be an inventor.

He decided to pursue it and invented a few things before eventually cycling back to the inspiration from back to the future, the hologram.

This is the creation story of Looking Glass Factory.

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