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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?
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.
$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.
I've spent a decent amount of time with HoloLens including trying out the included apps and I can say this is very impressive. The small FOV makes it hard to use as an extra (infinite) set of monitors. But you can definitely get the feel for how this future will work from this device--it's surprisingly fast, lightweight, and produces some great looking graphics.
You can indeed slap windows in the real world and they'll stay there forever. And, people/objects in the real world will occlude your windows when they move in front of it.
It's really kind of awesome.
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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"
I don't know if the stuff they're shipping to developers is the same as the stuff that I demoed in the last Build conference, but I was fairly underwhelmed by what I saw. It had a lot of promise. I'll give Microsoft credit for figuring out how to (for the most part) make the "holograms" stay put. If something was supposed to be sitting on a real-world table, you could walk all around the table and the object would still look like it was sitting there. But it was far from being something that a consumer would enjoy.
In particular, all the mocked-up screenshots they show you make it seems as if the "holograms" cover your full range in vision. In fact, with the unit I saw, the holograms were limited to a small square that hovered in the center of your face. You had zero peripheral vision on any axis, horizontal or vertical. And my hunch is that this is all down to cost, because people told me an earlier prototype actually performed better. If Microsoft wanted to ship a model today that would deliver what they've led consumers to expect, I strongly suspect it would cost far more than $3,000.
I tried to illustrate what the experience was like for me in this article.
Breakfast served all day!