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Windows 10 Build 15048 Has a Windows Mixed Reality Demo You Can Try (betanews.com)
Microsoft's big push into mixed reality involves headsets from multiple manufacturers (including ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo), and developer kits with Acer's headset will begin a phased rollout this month. But Windows 10's latest "Insider Preview" build already includes a mixed reality simulator with a first-person 3D environment that can be navigated with the W, A, S and D keys. Slashdot reader Mark Wilson writes:
From the look of the changelog for Windows 10 build 15048 that was released a few days ago to Insiders, it looked to be little more than a bug fixing release. But in fact Microsoft has already started to include references to -- and even a portal for -- Windows Mixed Reality. We have seen reference to Windows Holographic in Windows 10 before, but this is the first time there has been anything to play with. It coincides nicely with Microsoft revealing that Windows Mixed Reality is the new name for Windows Holographic, and it gives Insiders the chance to not only see if their computer meets the recommended specs, but also to try out a Windows Mixed reality simulation.
Really impressive technology coming from Microsoft, keep it up!
Trust the religious to shove kids back inside the womb, after they've been born. Bunch of perverts.
They're both leading you down the same road to the same destination. Microsoft just gives you a little bit longer leash.
The graphics are stunning for 1990. I haven't seen such cutting edge 3D since VRML:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CXdQWFMcRk
Blurring the line between reality and fiction since 1975!
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
A few cells does not equal a human being.
#DeleteFacebook
Hurray! A little bit longer leash!
#DeleteFacebook
It looks like Second Life and Microsoft Bob had a child.
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
puts a new meaning on Alternate facts
I mean right,, We can now make you see anything we want you to see ;)
... a reality in which Windows 10 doesn't suck?
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
Windows File Explorer still, after more than TEN YEARS cannot handle Long File Paths it ITSELF CREATES !
In the last release, Microsoft added a flag to allow apps to handle Long File Paths.
But Windows File Explorer DOES NOT USE THAT FLAG !
FIX THE BUGS, then add gimmicks.
Isn't this some what real? Or am I not real? Or are you not real? Or is this dam website not real?
r/The_Donald is leaking again.
If it could offer me a reality where Windows doesn't make me miserable 40 hours a week, that would be great. I've had to start dealing with Windows Server 2012R2 and it makes me want to shove hot pokers in my eyes to escape the pain of the layout of the new GUI. On top of that the enormous flaw in the .NET implementation on it also breaks some of the applications that are most critical to my work, and nobody seems to give a shit about that problem.
I would set up a VM inside of the 2012 server to run 7, except we're already running 2012 as a VM on a Linux system - by which point I can no longer make 64 bit virtualization a reality. And of course stacking my turtles that high doesn't seem like the greatest idea either...
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I'd prefer I J K L, burned into muscle memory since Lode Runner on the Apple ][+
Around 20% of fertilized human eggs miscarry. Why does God enjoy killing babies??
Smelly indo-chimps at Monkeyshit Corp have finally reverse engineered Doom.
Windows 10, and likely all future versions of Windows, do not exist for me. An operating system which snoops, displays advertisements, and updates, all without me explicitly opting in, and all without the ability to fully, easily, and perpetually opt out, is totally unacceptable.
I can't believe they didn't call it Windows Windows...
I never liked the WASD keys. I understand the reason, but I find that to use those keys I'm twisting my wrist - even with just positioning my hand that way as I type this I can feel an unnatural strain.
Personally, I always remap these to DSXC, which is a more natural angle for my hand, and the keys seems to fit more comfortably under the fingers too, especially as I normally would be using forward, left, and right mostly, and not using back a lot. It generally means mapping some other keys too to fit around them as these are normally mapped with WASD in mind.
Yeah, not really a lot to do with this story in general, but I do wonder if others do something similar...
Project Looking Glass called, they'd like their ideas back
Every update of Windows 10 seems to include more and more extraneus things which really don't belong in an OS. The OS should be lean, and if you wished, you should be able to install all these extras.
As it's now, Windows 10 includes lots of Microsoft software I have no use for that just wastes bits on my HD.
Of course, I'm not talking about the spying/telemetry since it's pretty obvious that's one of the main features (for MS) of Win 10 and sure as hell they're not gonna remove it.
I want my Johny Mnemonic gloves with that!
Doom used the arrows keys by default. So did Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Quake II, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, etc.
WASD wasn't default/popularised until Q3A in 1999.