ArsTechnica Microsoft HoloLens hands on

[biostud]

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/hands-on-with-hololens-making-the-virtual-real/

Color me excited.

Wired has one too

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/microsoft-hands-on

 

[Black Octagon]

Interesting, and just as Google Glass is finally throwing in the towel.

Release: around Windows 10 time

Price: TBC

Verdict: TBC

As I always do these days, I'll watch the space with interest and scepticism

 

[biostud]

Interesting, and just as Google Glass is finally throwing in the towel.

Release: around Windows 10 time

Price: TBC

Verdict: TBC

As I always do these days, I'll watch the space with interest and scepticism

I just read the Wired hands on and:

A Long Way Yet

Kipman’s voice eventually brings me back to Redmond. As I remove the goggles, he reminds me that it’s still early days for the project. This isn’t the kind of thing that will be, say, a holiday best seller. It’s a new interface, controlled by voice and gesture, and the controls have to work flawlessly before it will be commercially viable. I get that. I love voice controls, and I talk to Siri all the time. But half the time, she doesn’t give me a good answer and I have to pull up my keyboard to find what I’m looking for more quickly. Project HoloLens won’t have a keyboard. If the voice and gesture controls don’t work perfectly the first time, consumers will write it off. Quickly.

So it seems that it is still a future project.

 

[Denly]

someone need to make a rugged version with integrated helmet and sell it to Army, oil company, explorer, aircraft company, tech support company or any danger industry.

A bomb tech need to disarm a bomb? np

Oil rig have issues? np

Need to land a plane? np

Everyone can be Neo

 

[WT]

Someone speculate on price on this thing ... just ballpark it, as I am very curious what the perceived value should be. I'm going to say in the $600-750 range, but that is without knowing a thing about it other than what we now know, or comparing it to any other VR headset on the horizon.

 

[wand3r3r]

Sign me up! That looks and sounds incredible! Imagine running around a 3D world/battlefield looking around buildings. I hope it becomes a reality and doesn't get stuck in a 10 year implementation cycle. It has some huge barricades to overcome to become polished enough for wide adoption and use.

 

[biostud]

Probably will use same technology as they use for streaming xboxone games to PC and tablets, combined with kinect cameras.