Microsoft Just Announced A New Wearable Computer That Projects Holograms In Front Of Your Eyes
Source: Business Insider
Microsoft just unveiled a new wearable computer called HoloLens, a device that projects 3-D images you can interact with right in front of your eyes.
The company is calling it the first "fully untethered" holographic computer. That means it won't need to be attached to another computer or mobile device to work properly. Most other wearable displays, such as Google Glass and the Oculus Rift, need a computer, phone, or some type of cable to work well.
The lenses are see-through, which means you'll see something like the image shown below when looking through the glasses.
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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-hololens-2015-1
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)Its the end of October, when the days have already grown short in Redmond, Washington, and gray sheets of rain are just beginning to let up. In several months, Microsoft will unveil its most ambitious undertaking in years, a head-mounted holographic computer called Project HoloLens. But at this point, even most people at Microsoft have never heard of it. I walk through the large atrium of Microsofts Studio C to meet its chief inventor, Alex Kipman.
The headset is still a prototype being developed under the codename Project Baraboo, or sometimes just B. Kipman, with shoulder-length hair and severely cropped bangs, is a nervous inventor, shifting from one red Converse All-Star to the other. Nervous, because hes been working on this pair of holographic goggles for five years. No, even longer. Seven years, if you go back to the idea he first pitched to Microsoft, which became Kinect. When the motion-sensing Xbox accessory was released, just in time for the 2010 holidays, it became the fastest-selling consumer gaming device of all time.
Right from the start, he makes it clear that Baraboo will make Kinect seem minor league.
Kipman leads me into a briefing room with a drop-down screen, plush couches, and a corner bar stocked with wine and soda (we abstain). He sits beside me, then stands, paces a bit, then sits down again. His wind-up is long. He gives me an abbreviated history of computing, speaking in complete paragraphs, with bushy, expressive eyebrows and saucer eyes that expand as he talks. The next era of computing, he explains, wont be about that original digital universe. Its about the analog universe, he says. And the analog universe has a fundamentally different rule set.
Translation: you used to compute on a screen, entering commands on a keyboard. Cyberspace was somewhere else. Computers responded to programs that detailed explicit commands. In the very near future, youll compute in the physical world, using voice and gesture to summon data and layer it atop physical objects. Computer programs will be able to digest so much data that theyll be able to handle far more complex and nuanced situations. Cyberspace will be all around you.
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Read more: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/microsoft-hands-on
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)Glengoolie
(39 posts)... to what is in that video is an enormous gap.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)and would you add that other to this one as it is interesting background? Thanks and good job.
ETA, thanks, you already did it as I wrote this. Thanks.
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)I knew the first one was borderline, but it was new news. Wired released the article just after the announcement. It must have been pre-written so they were first.
Botany
(70,286 posts)just saying
snooper2
(30,151 posts)belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)Passes the "porn technology" test. Video recorders, digital cameras, etc. All took of partly due to porn.
daleo
(21,317 posts)Postulate 26 dimensional porn.
Anansi1171
(793 posts)...and this HoloLens was the top-page add.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)It may even involve movement for some games, so maybe healthier people, as long as they don't go roaming the streets with these things on. That car looks so real. Oop's
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)HomerRamone
(1,112 posts)Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)These are not intended to be worn on the street.
rug
(82,333 posts)JusticeForAll
(1,222 posts)Who wants a 3D blue screen of death?