Microsoft HoloLens: Headset Will Float 3D Images in Front of User's Eyes

latinpost.com ^ | Robert C. Weich III

[McGruff]

Imagine something like this times 1 billion.

[dp0622]

lol. I TRY hard not to!!!

[Covenantor]

[WhirlwindAttack]

This is more like a HUD that overlays onto what you already see. Think "Terminator" where you can see data about whatever is in your line of sight.

Set mine up with targeting data.

[BenLurkin]

Amazing.

[RoosterRedux]

Thx PJ. Did not know that.

[TBP]

Next stop, holodecks.

[BRK]

I already have been thinking about uses for this...

1. Program up a little man in a boat to float in my toilet. The little man can look like Obama and he’ll be in charge of “community organizing”.

2. Program it to have facial recgnition and cross check the voter roles. Whenever I come across a Democrat, it will project faces on them like those alien faces from “They Live”.

3. Pin a big screen TV on my ceiling so I can watch TV lying down without twisting my neck.

4. Play Minecraft with my kids in a virtual 3D world.

5. Build a special room in my house with special surfaces and lighting designed to complement the capabilities of the device. I will call it the HoloDeck.

6. Make a travel service that develops 3D renderings of famous places so that you can make virtual visits In the HoloDeck without having to go anywhere.

7. Use the device to augment driving in fog or darkness by highlighting the other cars and obstacles in the road, and making the lane stripes crazy bright.

8. Have everybody you know wear a little bar code and when it sees that bar code, it replaces their head with a funny cartoon head like the ones in Mask. ( the Jim Carey one, not the one with Cher.)

9. Make a cute virtual pet, about 5’-5” tall and otherwise totally NOT guilty!

[martin_fierro]

[logi_cal869]

Now we know why Google Glass quietly went away...

[whodathunkit]

Oh, now that there is funny!

I've been fighting the blue screen of death all day and now I have a BSOD with coffee topping.

[Westbrook]

But if it’s simulated it isn’t real, either. Right?
:)

[dayglored]

Love it!!

[Secret Agent Man]

Now we can watch Windows crash in 3d. Awesome. Maybe the new screen will be a little 3d death star exploding.

[dayglored]

Microsoft HoloLens ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[ro_dreaming]

Some students at Rice University have created the glove.

http://news.rice.edu/2015/04/22/gamers-feel-the-glove-from-rice-engineers-2/

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Already got those, they come with the voices in my head.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Vince Ferrer]

Now we know why Google Glass quietly went away...

I think Microsoft is getting right everything that Google got wrong with Google Glass. Google Glass, other than being the next big thing for techno-snobs, didn't really have a lot of usefulness. It was the next big social networking device.

This device, on the other hand, is a device you use at work. You won't care if you look like a dork while you are sitting in your cubicle, as long as you are getting work done. And I can see a million different business uses for a device like this, such as having technical documentation and models ready when the user is out in the field trying to fix machinery. While wearing the device the user can still see the real world, it is just overlaid when something is useful.