Friday 23 January 2015

Hands-on: Microsoft’s HoloLens is flat-out magical

by Peter Bright, Ars Technica


Microsoft claims this will replace the computer screen – and they may well be right. HoloLens is an engaging and effective augmented reality system. With HoloLens I saw virtual objects—Minecraft castles, Skype windows, even the surface of Mars—presented over, and spatially integrated with, the real world. It looked for every bit like the holographic projection we saw depicted in Star Wars and Total Recall. Except that’s shortchanging Microsoft’s work, because these virtual objects were in fact far more convincing than the washed out, translucent message R2D2 projected, and much better than Sharon Stone’s virtual tennis coach. The images were bright, saturated, and reasonably opaque, giving the virtual objects a real feeling of solidity.


http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/hands-on-with-hololens-making-the-virtual-real/1/


Imagine the education potential as you check out the video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAKfdeOX3-o


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