You can make the outer visor a black&white LCD screen, that way you can block off parts of the background. The edges of the blocker will be a little blurry, and the transition between CGI and reality will stand out ... but you would be able to put opaque imagery over an arbitrary background.
Microsoft HoloLens [Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Holograms]
shredenvain
Regular
I have no knowledge of the subject in the question I am about to ask. Could Hololens be using vector graphics?
I ask because of the lack of pixels shown in the demos. I have read about the HPU bouncing light around the lenses to create the image, but assuming the visuals are being created by the GPU and the GPU being a standard pixel raster process wouldn't there be some sort of pixels viewable in the output?
I ask because of the lack of pixels shown in the demos. I have read about the HPU bouncing light around the lenses to create the image, but assuming the visuals are being created by the GPU and the GPU being a standard pixel raster process wouldn't there be some sort of pixels viewable in the output?
Man , I keep thinking about when I was a young kid in the 80s playing laser tag. Imagine how awesome this thing would be with that.
You can get a large building like a skate rink or a parking deck or even a basketball / tennis ball court. And you could create a scene inside of it with spots to hide or take cover and have a huge paintball type fight in the game with multiple people .
You can get a large building like a skate rink or a parking deck or even a basketball / tennis ball court. And you could create a scene inside of it with spots to hide or take cover and have a huge paintball type fight in the game with multiple people .
The potential is clearly mind boggling, as demonstrated by the awesome ideas generated by this little thread alone. No way this tech isn't going to be huge.
The actual screenshots (and some impressions) suggest resolution isn't that high. But as for the rest, I take it the visir actually creates real holograms in front of your eyes, and those block anything behind them, black or white. Just really bright light still shines through. It's really interesting.
That's why you generally turn the lights down, with higher ambient lighting a grey screen will look better.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
I try not to get too jaded. I know I do on some things (VR because it has been tried over and over and over and over ad nauseum) but I try to give new things the benefit of the doubt. I'm still not sold that a HMD of anything will succeed in the consumer market. But being that this is target at consumer and professional markets. I'm pretty sure it'll at least succeed in the professional market. For the consumer market, will it be compelling enough to overcome your average consumer's aversion to wearing hardware on their head? I'm not betting on it. But this has potentially the best chance out of everything (I don't think VR will be able to sway the average consumer although it may get some of the hard core gamers).
Yeah, there's lots of potential here. Limited mostly by the the ideas and capability of developers combined with how accomodating the APIs and hardware are.
As many have said there's no reason you can't use a real world device for input. You could use a joystick, trackball, keyboard, tablet, laptop, PC, breathalizer (for you recovering alcoholics out there
), whatever in conjunction with the HoloLens.Ideally they'll come up with a robust control scheme for the device itself.
There's no reason it couldn't project a keyboard onto a surface (like your arm, a wall, a table, etc.) and then you touch the appropriate places on that surface to input text. That would remove the Z axis which would be problematic with knowing exactly what your finger was hitting.
Hell, it could project anything onto say your hand, and then you touch whatever object/selection item you wanted on your hand to select something. Sure minority report style input in mid-air is cool, but something composited onto your hand and arm is still cool, and significantly more practical I would think.
The device itself is beaming light directly into your eyes. Combined with the darkened glass of the visor shield, it should allow mostly perfect color rendition except in the cases where the background light is exceedingly bright (like really shiny objects in direct sunlight).
They could also use electrochromic panels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass ), to adjust the transparency of the visor shield. Anything from totally transparent to almost opaque. I used electrochromic panels as an example because they only require voltage to change states although the change is relatively slow. The other technologies require no voltage in the default state, but require constant voltage in any other state.
And for outdoor uses, they could use passive smart glass that just changes transparency based on ambient light conditions.
Regards,
SB
We had similar idea threads for other tech that amounted to very little. Not saying this won't be huge, but the existence of a thread with ideas in it doesn't prove it'll be huge.
One thing that could be a real game changer is the eye tracking. Playing football last night, there's the old issue of selecting the player you want to control. If you controlled any player you just looked at (when not controlled by anyone else), that'd be a huge improvement.
liquidboy
Regular
What's intriguing for me is technically HoloLens on day one of release will run..
1. ALL Windows Store "Modern Apps"
2. Dx11.3/Dx12 games (either streamed from the cloud/xbox/pc etc or running)
3. All modern web apps/websites via Spartan Browser (MS's modern web browser)
I find that very compelling, being able to put on those glasses and see a wall of tiles consisting of the same apps/games I use on my phone/tablet/pc etc. (100K+ in the Windows Store to date I believe)
1. ALL Windows Store "Modern Apps"
2. Dx11.3/Dx12 games (either streamed from the cloud/xbox/pc etc or running)
3. All modern web apps/websites via Spartan Browser (MS's modern web browser)
I find that very compelling, being able to put on those glasses and see a wall of tiles consisting of the same apps/games I use on my phone/tablet/pc etc. (100K+ in the Windows Store to date I believe)
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Deleted member 86764
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Would the device be usable outside? I ask because Kinect doesn't work well in sunlight. I can't imagine the IR projector will work at any kind of distance or bright light.
The numbers you quote are actually lower than the worst quarter the last 2 years. In Q'3 2012 they "only" sold 3.8 million Macs. On average they have sold around 4.5 million units the last 12 quarters (over 53 million units total).
You just made me feel like a little excited kid all over again, and for that I thank you.
Your welcome my friend. I'm glad I could touch the little child inside of you !
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Deleted member 11852
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Yea the cool thing is you can do it anywhere. Create a map editor and just walk around the space and add things to the area and then share it with friends who have a hologlass
My back yard has a multi level deck , an above ground pool , a swing set a fence and a 3 door garage. IT be cool to skin those over as different things and have an all out blaster war with my nephew and little cousins.
I thought that the oculus and the omini were going to be big for the gym set but this could be way bigger.
My back yard has a multi level deck , an above ground pool , a swing set a fence and a 3 door garage. IT be cool to skin those over as different things and have an all out blaster war with my nephew and little cousins.
I thought that the oculus and the omini were going to be big for the gym set but this could be way bigger.
I've just remembered of this
https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/#project
https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/#project
