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Renew Deal

(81,801 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 04:12 PM Jan 2015

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



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Microsoft Just Announced A New Wearable Computer That Projects Holograms In Front Of Your Eyes (Original Post) Renew Deal Jan 2015 OP
Our Exclusive Hands-On With Microsoft’s Unbelievable New Holographic Goggles Renew Deal Jan 2015 #1
Interesting sakabatou Jan 2015 #3
From where the technology is now... Glengoolie Jan 2015 #17
k&r uppityperson Jan 2015 #2
Already done Renew Deal Jan 2015 #4
mmmmm 3D porn Botany Jan 2015 #5
Porn will make this device affordable for the common person snooper2 Jan 2015 #7
gonna say the same - 3d porn belzabubba333 Jan 2015 #8
yep Locrian Jan 2015 #11
Some versions of string theory daleo Jan 2015 #13
Kismet- I just searched for IoT on another computer... Anansi1171 Jan 2015 #6
This will be great for gaming Politicalboi Jan 2015 #9
I want a holodeck! Sunlei Jan 2015 #10
Just when you thought we were getting rid of Glassholes HomerRamone Jan 2015 #12
This is not the same thing Renew Deal Jan 2015 #15
Help me Obi Wan Kanobi you're my only hope rug Jan 2015 #14
Meh! JusticeForAll Jan 2015 #16

Renew Deal

(81,801 posts)
1. Our Exclusive Hands-On With Microsoft’s Unbelievable New Holographic Goggles
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 04:14 PM
Jan 2015

It’s 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 Microsoft’s 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 he’s 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, won’t be about that original digital universe. “It’s 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, you’ll 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 they’ll 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

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uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
2. k&r
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 04:15 PM
Jan 2015

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)
4. Already done
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 04:16 PM
Jan 2015

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.

Locrian

(4,522 posts)
11. yep
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 07:49 PM
Jan 2015

Passes the "porn technology" test. Video recorders, digital cameras, etc. All took of partly due to porn.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
9. This will be great for gaming
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 04:52 PM
Jan 2015

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

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