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HoloLens For Developers Available For Pre-Order (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft's HoloLens, touted as the world's 'first and only fully untethered holographic computer' is available today for pre-order and will ship on March 30. The HoloLens Development Edition is available for purchase to qualified developer applicants and will cost $3,000. While the augmented-reality headset is still far from a commercial release to consumers, Microsoft will release six applications that run on the holographic platform – a mix of development tools, games, and user programs. From today, developers can access documentation, guides and tutorials for HoloLens. Additional development tools will be made available when the first HoloLens ship at the end of March, including Visual Studio projects and a HoloLens emulator, which will allow testing of holographic apps on a PC without a physical HoloLens.
is not "holographic"...
But hey, asking Microsoft to stop abusing something is a lost fight, right?
I'm so excited to that we're going to get another VR/AR hype-cycle over and done with, in less than about two year's time, I'd say. Then they can take it back to the lab, and try to make something people actually want at a price they can afford, and we'll have some peace for another six years. Current products don't cut it, and they will fail.
P.S. Mooo guy, we've had the "VR is for cows" message today, so don't even.
It comes with a cool animation of 3000 dollars leaving your wallet that can overlay the real-world image of your accountant telling you you're broke.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
The full hololens experience is three hours of a 3d Cortana asking you to upgrade your computer followed by a 4d blue screen. It's actually pretty nice. Definitely worth 3 grand.
And we should feel sympathy for early adopters of technology ... why?
I applaud the people who have money to piss away on new technology which is as yet unproven, they pave the way for the rest of us to get a version which actually works.
If you spent your last $3k on this technology thinking it was going to make you rich, well, sucks to be you.
Those guys who splash out $20K on the latest TV technology? Thanks for allowing the failure rate of new technology to keep going so we don't have to be the suckers who bought it on the first iteration.
But don't expect us to care if that money you had to spend on the latest and greatest turned out to be a bad choice; cutting edge can cut both ways.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
$3000 dollars to be first one to develop for a platform that may become popular is a small price to pay.
But as someone who owns a Newton, an N-Gage, a Google Glass, and an Apple Watch, I feel it is my duty to buy one of these. My collection won't be complete without it.
Anyone have any hands on experience with this or other "holographic headsets"? I'm wondering if they have decent resolution, frame rate, color, etc or are they like comparing old green screens to today's 30" monitors? It would be neat if you could simply wear a headset that would allow you to slap virtual monitors, calendars, reminders, tv's etc throughout your home/work environment but I'm having a hard time believing that the consumer grade equipment is anywhere near that capable yet. Not that it is necessarily a technology problem, accelerators, screens, cameras, and processors of today should be up to the task (though you might have to use a standard display and overlay a video image behind it instead of a see through display, and battery life might be an issue), its just that I have yet to see anything personally where they put it all together.
/oblg. "Be the first to invest now in a bridge joining two communities. Huge opportunity!!!"
Evaluation of HoloLens:
[x] Fad
[x] Device
[x] Hype train
[x] Lacks apps
[x] Consumers (generally) don't give a fuck
[ ] Overpriced Consumer Kit
[x] Overpriced Dev Kit
[ ] Ship it!
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"A sucker and his money are soon parted"
This platform is not "holographic"...
Neither were the Star Trek's holodecks, if you want to be pedantic about the thing. The point is that words take on new meanings in popular usage - casual usage - that won't always be found in the dictionary. The HoloLens places virtual objects in real environments in a way that is persuasive to the viewer, which is the most you can ask of a real holographic projection.
But hey, asking Microsoft to stop abusing something is a lost fight, right?
$3000 dollars to be first one to develop for a platform that may become popular is a small price to pay.
Maybe you should ask all those early adopter Glassholes that dumped thousands in to a product that's now vanished with only rumors of a new and improved replacement version that doesn't draw public contempt.
$3000 dollars to be first one to develop for a platform that may become popular is a small price to pay.
Unless they make it in the form of a pair of contact lenses and do away with the UAP (if you haven't made an app for Windows UAP this cannot be stressed enough) it won't become popular.
And we should feel sympathy for early adopters of technology ... why?
I'm curious - who asked you to feel sympathy for early adopters of technology? Somebody down at the library? John, from account management? A little bird?
"Old man yells at systemd"
Are there any facts out there? Something like pixel resolution to compare with htc playstatio rv and occulus? And if you are in a pitch black room is there no image becuase no ambient light?
$3,000 broke, huh?
Funny. I remember spending something like $3,300 for a PowerMac G4. It was the first hardware on the market that shipped with a DVD-R burner, and I was the first guy on my block to start using DeCSS to burn DVD-Rs.
I would have been in my mid/late 20s, and I didn't even bother to talk to an accountant about it.
Breakfast served all day!
If you're not strong enough to attack real monsters then you invent straw men and attack those. We're humans, it's what we do.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Baby steps. Not one VR provider will nail it first go especially if they aren't willing to wait for the right moment like Apple did.
Most new products are like this.
Until Apple yells "You're doing it WRONG! You're doing it WRONG! Give me the damn mouse and let me drive for a minute... there! THAT'S how you get past that level to the next level!".
The $3000 isn't what killed him. It was the Google Glass, the 3DTV's, the various VR headsets, and a million other fads that just added up.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Evaluation of HoloLens:
[x] Fad
[x] Device
[x] Hype train
[x] Lacks apps
[x] Consumers (generally) don't give a fuck
[ ] Overpriced Consumer Kit
[x] Overpriced Dev Kit
[ ] Ship it!
I'm not sure if your ditching the tech as a whole or just Hololen. If your ditching the tech as a whole I hate to tell you this but you're in for a surprise. The current state of the tech is crap but it's potential is huge. If you get onboard early and become good at developing for it, it's the key to unlocking large opportunities down the road. As a software business it's just a smart move in anticipation for what's coming especially if you offering can benefit from it. If you're just an employee looking to broaden you horizon then this may be a good place to look.
AR is still in infancy and will grow to replace most visual displays and some input methods.
My 2 cents.
I'm talking about three dimensional applications. Things like creating annotations on real-world objects, visualizing the internal parts of equipment, visual feedback from telepresence systems, architecting a house while standing "inside it" on the vacant lot, GPS navigation overlays in the real world...
Exactly.
There is a lot of MS hate on slashdot, and now people who haven't tried a product, much less tried all of the potential applications for it, are belittling it out of that juvenile hatred. If they don't like it they shouldn't buy it, but they're still going to bash it.
We're nerds. It's a cool technology. Let's play with it and see what we can do with it.
The technology has a huge potential for a wide array of uses, initially in the business space and then the luxury market, and over time it will improve and become more useful for everyday work in a variety of fields and for consumer use. The color monitor on an 8086 wasn't that impressive either, but color monitors kept getting better.
If you're not strong enough to attack real monsters then you invent straw men and attack those. We're humans, it's what we do.
GREAT Answer!
If you're a developer hopefully you can afford more than one devkit...
Twinstiq, game news
I can't think that developers will be gobbling this up. Even for a mid size company is 3000$ for an SDK a lot of money. Microsoft is not cool enough that people blindly drop any amount on the table just because it is their product. Used to work for Apple, but even their customers realized that they only get some tech that others sell for less. Microsoft totally overpriced the SDK. They should have set it to a much lower price and take a hit on the few units shipped to devs. Once there is a product with applications find ways to monetize that.
You should look what some of the other commercial heads up displays. And they don't have the augmented reality capabilities.