Musubi Video Creator Apps

info About Musubi

"Musubi" is Looking Glass's photo frame that overlays a transparent LCD panel on top of a lenticular sheet to create the illusion of a 3D frame. Brighter parts of a video become transparent, letting the 3D frame behind show through — so a flat 2D video appears to have real 3D depth.

The web apps below let you create videos optimized for Musubi, entirely in your browser — no installation required, and they work on both PC and Mac.

view_in_ar 3DGS Video Creator for Musubi

Creates rotating and oscillating videos from 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) models (.ply / .splat / .ksplat / .spz / .sog), optimized for Musubi.

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deployed_code 3D Model Video Creator for Musubi

Creates rotating and oscillating videos from standard 3D models, optimized for Musubi.

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usb Transferring Videos to Musubi

Musubi can receive videos through its official app, but you can also transfer and play a video file without it, using the following method:

Connect Musubi to your PC with a USB cable — Musubi's internal storage mounts as a regular drive on your PC (e.g. D:\).
Copy the video file (.mp4) you want to play onto that drive.
Disconnect the USB cable — Musubi plays the video files on its internal storage in filename order.

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Files transferred with the official app appear to be numbered 0001_, 0002_, … and newly transferred files seem to get renumbered starting from 0001_. Videos saved by this web app are named 0000_<timestamp>.mp4, so they always play first.
Musubi is a video player and doesn't appear to support still images (JPG/PNG didn't play when we tried).
Musubi's standard video resolution is 576×1024, but videos at other resolutions/aspect ratios also seem to play, scaled to fit the screen. That said, the upper limit of supported resolutions is unknown, and some MP4 files won't play at all (see "A Note About MP4 Files" below). It also appears to only support H.264, though this hasn't been confirmed.

movie_filter A Note About MP4 Files

An MP4 file created on a computer may fail to play or be recognized on Musubi. This doesn't mean the file is broken — it's a difference in how the MP4 file is internally structured.

Every MP4 file contains two things: the actual video data, and a kind of "table of contents" that tells a player where everything is (duration, frame layout, etc.). Most apps write this table of contents at the very beginning of the file. However, when a video is saved directly as MP4 by a browser's screen-recording feature (like MediaRecorder), it often ends up at the end of the file, or split across multiple locations. Full-featured players — a computer, a phone, VLC — handle this without any issue, but Musubi's built-in player uses a much simpler parser that often can't handle that split table of contents, so it treats the file as unrecognized.

Likely to play fine	May fail to play
Videos recorded with a phone's standard camera app Videos exported from editing software (iMovie, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, etc.) Videos converted/re-encoded with ffmpeg, etc. Videos saved by the Musubi video creator apps on this site	MP4s saved directly from a browser's screen-recording feature MP4s saved via some web apps' "record" button

🔧 If you run into a file that won't play: Re-encoding it once on a computer almost always fixes it.