Microsoft Announces Windows Holographic Platform

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 30, 2015 @03:00AM from the so-it's-an-illusion dept.

An anonymous reader writes: At its Build 2015 developer conference [Wednesday], Microsoft announced the Windows Holographic Platform. In short, the company will let developers turn Windows 10 apps into holograms for HoloLens. On stage, Microsoft showed a Windows video app that you can simply control with your voice: Just say "follow me" and the video app moves along as you walk around a room. "Every single universal Windows app has these capabilities," said Alex Kipman, technical fellow for the operating system group at Microsoft. Apps can look like little windows, or they can be more than that. The demo included a photos app, a browser, Skype, a holographic Start Menu, and even a dog on the floor.

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Re:Not Holograms by RevWaldo · 2015-04-30 03:19 · Score: 4, Informative

Indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Wake me when they make real advances in holography, like holographic video.

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demo video online by eples · 2015-04-30 03:35 · Score: 3, Informative

The demo starts at 2:31:00 into the keynote video:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2015/KEY01

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