Microsoft HoloLens

[normeus]

Any one thinking about getting one of these?

https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hol ... nt-edition

It looks beautiful but at $3,000.00 I would have to sell my car and learn about mass transportation.
Kids , no toys for a few Christmas'!

Then again , it might also become another GoogleGlass.

Norm.
(Just realized the difference of "Off Topic" and "General Discussion", Thank you RSBasic)

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[tj1010]

This is as close to Tony Stark displays as we'll ever get unless some chemists and physicist figure out something with the nitrogen dynamics of air and the visible spectrum.

It doesn't actually improve on anything though so I'm not sure what is with the $3,000.00 price-tag..

[heartbone]

It doesn't actually improve on anything though so I'm not sure what is with the $3,000.00 price-tag..

It improves their profits.

A Skype application?
A scarcity of decent ideas obviously.
They should sell it to Nintendo.
I think this mask is going to be a real turkey and they'd need to pay me a few thousand to become a developer.

[tj1010]

It doesn't actually improve on anything though so I'm not sure what is with the $3,000.00 price-tag..

It improves their profits.

A Skype application?
A scarcity of decent ideas obviously.
They should sell it to Nintendo.
I think this mask is going to be a real turkey and they'd need to pay me a few thousand to become a developer.

Yeah it's no more productive or entertaining than a $300.00 laptop.. It looks like they probably just refined some cheap augmented reality tech algorithms by some firm they bought out with lunch money..

[heartbone]

I still don't know if the thing even produces holographic imagery.

ho•lo•gram \"ho-le-'gram, "ha-\ n : a three-dimensional image produced by an interference pattern of light (as laser light)

Or is it merely more misleading Microsoft marketing?
Based on what I know about that business, I'd put my money on more malarkey,
because if they are truly 3D images (and not 3D projections onto a 2D space) then the system would not have a flat 2D lens in the optics.
https://dev.windows.com/en-us/holograph ... re_details

One extremely bad idea about this whole setup, it's a Wi-Fi 802.11ac cellular disruptor designed for the human cranium.
I see no wired connection defined, IMO the EU should ban the device as dangerous.

[Danilo]

$3,000.00?

That's at least 2 weeks vacation in Sri Lanka...

[normeus]

You guys are killing me here. I am looking for ways to justify getting this toy.

Microsoft marketing videos look awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA

Vacation to Sri Lanka sounds much better!

Thank you.
Norm.

[Danilo]

Just booked 17 days for 2 persons in Sri Lanka... pfff virtual HoloLens.

[IdeasVacuum]

HoloLens is a fantastic device. I'd like to see a PB lib for it but the forms are defined with XAML.

[Danilo]

I think the Indian Ocean View is better... and it's soo real!

HoloLens is, of course, a device powered by .NET - not old-style Win32 API.
Totally useless with PureBasic, QuickBasic, QB64, PowerBasic, etc...

[Kiffi]

I think the Indian Ocean View is better... and it's soo real!

http://abload.de/img/axj3yb2_460s_v17hr9t.jpg

[Danilo]

I think the Indian Ocean View is better... and it's soo real!

http://abload.de/img/axj3yb2_460s_v17hr9t.jpg

Damn!

[jack]

am I the only one that thinks the headgear looks creepy?

[Danilo]

am I the only one that thinks the headgear looks creepy?

Well, it's the future of mankind - get used to it.

It's only creepy as long as you see other people wearing it, and as long as you don't wear it yourself.

[jack]

you know when I started watching the Anime Series "Sword Art Online" and saw the main character put on a headgear I thought, what a loser.
but I kept watching even though I was tempted to turn away, the story plot changes to a life or death scenario where the players wearing the headgear
are locked-in to the system and if they die in the virtual world, then the headgear would fry their brain killing them, same if someone would try to remove
the headgear.
turns out to be one of my all time favorite anime series, still I would not like to be caught dead in one of those dorky headgears.