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Microsoft Leaks New HoloLens Details (mashable.com)
New submitter moriarty1972 writes: More details about Microsoft's HoloLens have come out. The device will offer roughly five to five and a half hours of battery life when working on Word documents or email, and about two and a half hours when using it for highly intensive computational work involving detailed renderings. Mashable reports: "Microsoft's augmented reality headset called the HoloLens has already won over a number of fans eager to try the device, but details about how it works have been scarce However, a few more bits of information about the HoloLens leaked during a recent event in Tel Aviv, Israel, courtesy of Bruce Harris, a technical evangelist at Microsoft."
But MS puts spyware in everything. Won't buy.
All these glossy demos, but still no-one's stuck a camera in it to show us what it actually looks like from the inside.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I'm wouldn't be surprised if it was a fake "leak" orchestrated by Microsoft deliberately.
People talking about the Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard and they gotta do something to make themselves look relevant still.
Xbox TWO should use a VR headset and have some spatial sensing using the kenect as well. That way they can force the next purchase of video game console easily.
I love playing games like Rainbow 6, but If I could have it VR and hold a plastic rifle in my hands to aim/shoot with? oh hell yeah I would drop 2X Xbox One money and $80 per game to do that.
Or Play forza from a real VR view? oh hell yeah.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Well, this one works with both eyes, so twice the cost!
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the information was released by Microsoft, not leaked.
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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press release without a Q&A?
Absolutely. If they can't estimate (Best Estimate) + 30 mins then forget it. Its DOA.
Field of View has been stated as "equivalent of a 15" monitor at 2 feet". Ergo, quite small. Immersive, it is not.
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it ISN'T VR, it is augmented reality, they are related but definitely not the same and so far they are pretty much alone in this space.
These aren't being made to wear for privacy invading arseholes to walk around with. They are being made for use in an office for technical work.
Pass the joint round, dude, you're sucking back too much!
The pic in the link makes them look like medium tinted sunglasses. I wouldn't want to look though that for any long period of time. Augmented reality that makes reality dim kind of sucks. I'd rather smoke a joint and drink a six pack and call it a day.
$3000 unless something changed as far as I know it was $3000 and only approved devs that had access to the device. "Go to the Manhattan store and buy yours" this is the first I've heard of it, and last I heard of it was ~ last week.
Finally what the heck is the point of listing the word document battery life? Do people really think that their companies SWOT analysis doc is going to be improved by holographic projection?
Microsoft told me this during the public demos they gave out a few months back. This isn't secret information.
BTW it's awesome and really works--it has a low FOV, but you kind of forget about it. One question I couldn't get answered....is it running Windows RT? It's the only way I figure they can get that much battery life out of Windows on a chipset that fits in a headset.
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Is it really a leak if Microsoft PR sends the details to be released out, just with the caveat "you didn't get this from us"?
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Google Glass is AR. Working on Word documents with a pair of glasses for a screen... I'm not sure what R you call that, but it doesn't sound like anything I will be buying ever.
That's ample time to cover the initial setup and playing around with demos until buyer's remorse kicks in. And when you find it again in 6 months in the cupboard it will have some charge left so you can confirm to yourself it really was the stupidest thing you've bought of late.
What would the use case for a word processor or spreadsheet be?
I really can't see how, no pun intended, having augmented reality is going to help me write an email.
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What exactly does it do in those scenarios? I don't know why you would even want to do that.
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Have you tried YouTube? They actually did this at a conference with minecraft
I see videos of solid 3D models composited onto a live camera view using similar technology, but what I have yet to see is what it actually looks like to a human wearing the thing - i.e., according to accounts I've read, transparent and occupying only a small area of your field of view.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
who said anything about email or spreadsheets? The core audience is supposedly engineers and designers. People that make stuff and actually want to see what their computer generated models will look like in the real world.