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You'll Soon Be Able To 'Holoport' Anywhere In the World With Microsoft VR Tech (thenextweb.com)
An anonymous reader cites an article on The Next Web: Microsoft research manager Shahram Izadi is showing off the company's latest innovation using HoloLens: 'holoportation,' enabling him to appear as if he's there in real-time, anywhere in the world. His image is captured in 3D by cameras placed around the room. This is then stitched together, compressed and transmitted so someone else can see, hear and interact with him as though he's right there with them. You can even playback previous interactions, as though "walking into a living memory," and miniaturize the content to make it easier to consume. "Imagine being able to virtually teleport from one place to another," he says. Well, if you're the owner of a HoloLens, you soon could do. Microsoft's HoloLens is arguably the front-runner in the nascent, but fast-evolving, augmented reality space. The company's technology has previously been seen used by astronauts and scientists to "walk on the Mars surface" without stepping out of their office on Earth. It's fascinating to see how Microsoft continues to further innovate in this field.
The hololens will fail, the FOV is too narrow to be useful. The meta 2 is already better.
As long as they record every movement I make and every word I say and sell it to anyone, I'm ok with this.
I'll take 500 million of investment money now, thanks. No I don't have to prove anything, saying it does is good enough in today's tech world.
it's useful to do that?
That's the word that makes everything possible!
>> Microsoft's HoloLens is arguably the front-runner in the nascent, but fast-evolving, augmented reality space.
No it isn't. It isn't anything other than made-up marketing hype until you can actually buy them.
Especially if you are at home and haven't gotten dressed and the call starts in video/holo mode without being asked!
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"Well, if you're the owner of a HoloLens, you soon could do."
You mean if you're the owner of a HoloLens ... and a bunch of 3D cameras (looked like about eight in the video) ... with hololens tracking systems attached ... and whatever rig is required to do the processing on the outputs from those cameras ...
So no, if you're the owner of just a HoloLens (even if you could actually buy one yet), you will not be doing this any time soon, not for any definition of "soon" that I recognise.
Oh no... it's the future.
Uh, if Ivanka Trump was my daughter, I'd fuck her three times a day too.
Am I the only one who thinks that holograms as communication would be really cool, but haven't quite figured out how talking to the image of someone else is somehow better than just talking to them on the phone. Even with video cameras I can sort of point it at my head so I can be videoconferencing in gym shorts and no one will care. What does someone get out of me standing there?
AR = Augmented Reality, the real world is seen with digital information added.
VR = Virtual Reality, the world is entirely synthetic, sometimes with a bit of real world input.
If you squint hard enough, you can already spot him lurking outside your Windows at night:
HoloHans(®)
You see, Microsoft's engineers have finally managed to implement a VR Hans Gruber, and make no mistake, he's there to snatch all of your codes. "I'm going to count to three point eleven, there will not be a four. Give me the code."
but what about a holophone?
Will we be able to use a holophone while holoporting across the globe? Or will having a holo-something inside another holo-something open a hole in the space-time continuum?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
PS.. I tend to take Hololens videos with a bit of salt (since the attempts at covering up the limited FOV in the first footage) but this looks pretty damn neat for a camera rig that's not too complex, their algorithms seem to handle occlusion and such near-seamlessly.
This freely available visual novel is a must-read, now that corporation-driven virtual reality is becoming real (pun not intended).
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
you're gonna hate this!
Libertas in infinitum
If any one of these companies used their money to solve actual problems that actually exist. This and similar intiatives are non-starters until all of the gear ceases to be a requirement and it doesn't make you vomit profusely. It's only about a kajillion times easier to use video or teleconferencing. It'll probably end up disappearing from the msinstream altogether having been relegated to being a sex toy. I'm sure the pron industry is standing at full attention. :P
It will only allow you to view white supremacist meetings.
Seriously though, where is the need for something like this? Unless you can smack the hologram and the person on the other end can feel it. That might be worth something.
This doesn't solve any problems at all. Much like everything MS has done since Windows 8. Points for consistency.
News from the future!
In an effort to spread Holoport technology, Microsoft are creating ambassador droids to travel around and spread the message.
This is the second revision of the boston dynamics two (D2) prototype droid, also known as R2D2, recently acquired from google.
Your point can't be overstated. The potential for the Hololens is amazing, but that tiny field-of-view absolutely kills it. The gesture-recognition tech, and on-board processing for wire-free use, positional sound, etc., are all rendered completely worthless by that experience-ruining tiny box that constrains all the holograms.
Also, the holograms are too transparent; too much of whatever is behind them bleeds through them. That kinda ruins it too, but isn't the deal-killer that the limited FOV is.
Since Microsoft has publicly announced they're a big fan of him, will Microsoft use this to show us a virtual Hitler?
So, how many jobs will be lost and off-shored to pay for this bullshit?
Isn't it about time "intelligent" people stopped buying Microsoft's job-destroying products?
Lets see my virtual tour list:
Secret parts of white house
McMyrdoc base in shouth pole
Mayan temple
Somehow im pretty sure none of these will be available and the "anywhere" is just false marketing gimmick.
"Holo-portation" looks like a pretty cool heir for video chats...
But as usual Microsoft wants to oversell. The Mars use-case is absolutely stupid due to the 20 minutes one-way communication delay...
I don't think it'll be long before data from stolen 3d recordings will be able to to be used to augment a 3d avatar allowing holographic impersonation.