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Microsoft used this adorable robot to show off new HoloLens features
The Verge ^
| Apr 29, 2015
| Sean O'Kane
Posted on 04/30/2015 8:11:55 PM PDT by dayglored
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Review from about five weeks ago in TechRadar ("Hands on: Microsoft HoloLens review"):
Our Early Verdict I hope HoloLens will be a Surface Pro 3 rather than a Zune; this is an amazing technology that's fun to use but also enormously useful for work. I don't know how much it will cost or how often you'll need to recharge it, but I want one.
For
- Augmented reality made useful and engaging
- Windows 10 means it will be easy for developers to write HoloLens apps
- No VR nausea or 3D headaches
Against
- Price and battery life unknown
- You may have issues if you wear glasses
- You're going to look strange wearing and using it
Update March 2015: Looks like gaming is definitely a go for the HoloLens. During GDC 2015, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer led a panel discussing the importance of games on the augmented reality device: "We see this as a full Windows 10 device with holographic capability..."
Spencer also mentioned that the HoloLens APIs will be made available with Windows 10 gaming SDK.
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:11:55 PM PDT
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dayglored
To: dayglored; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; Alas Babylon!; amigatec; ...
HoloLens at Build -- Great Progress and Cool Demo ... PING!
You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: search on keyword "windowspinglist".
Thanks to tacticalogic for the heads up!
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:13:18 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:14:25 PM PDT
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dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
Paperclip torture guy GOES ON STEROIDS...?
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:16:05 PM PDT
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gaijin
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:20:09 PM PDT
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bolobaby
To: gaijin
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Paperclip torture guy GOES ON STEROIDS...? Pretty much. Except now Clippy is in 3D, and can walk around...
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:25:18 PM PDT
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dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: dayglored
What’s holographic about it? It’s a virtual reality headset.
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:27:17 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:32:18 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: UCANSEE2
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04/30/2015 8:35:09 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:39:10 PM PDT
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Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: dayglored
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:46:34 PM PDT
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Uncle Miltie
(we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that - Baltimore's Democrat Mayor)
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:48:58 PM PDT
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dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
04/30/2015 10:31:00 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/30/2015 11:52:58 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: dayglored
I checked into this and I have declared it at least 1,037 times cooler than the Apple Watch. The videos I saw were unbelievable. I’ll need at least 2-3 sets in my house for Minecraft alone. I wonder if it will it also work with Solidworks? I can definitely see this replacing my iPad.
As for the Verge statement “You’re going to look strange wearing and using it”. I say that within a few years, the saying will go that folks will “look strange without it” (Brave New World?)
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05/01/2015 12:43:32 AM PDT
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BRK
To: Uncle Miltie
Porn.Maybe in a different manifestation of the technology. The relative transparency of the images this device presents doesn't strike me as something that would be well suited for slack-jawed media consumption.
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posted on
05/01/2015 5:22:59 AM PDT
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tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: BRK
1,037 times cooler than the Apple WatchIt's definitely going to find some useful applications, and so far it hasn't generated any Chris Kyle scale lengths of smiley-faced cap lock spam.
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posted on
05/01/2015 5:32:08 AM PDT
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tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: dayglored
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posted on
05/01/2015 5:35:43 AM PDT
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PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Steely Tom
Whats holographic about it? Its a virtual reality headset. Correct. It annoys me too that MS uses the word "hologram" to refer to "3D glasses".
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posted on
05/01/2015 5:49:50 AM PDT
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PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: tacticalogic; Uncle Miltie
The relative transparency of the images this device presents doesn't strike me as something that would be well suited for slack-jawed media consumption. Used in a dark room, the image transparency issue goes away.
I agree with Uncle Miltie that one of the big early uses of this will be interactive 3D porn.
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05/01/2015 5:52:53 AM PDT
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PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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