You'll Soon Be Able To 'Holoport' Anywhere In the World With Microsoft VR Tech (thenextweb.com) 54
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.
With 45 degrees of FOV (Score:2)
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The hololens videos are all cgi edited videos, not actual videos.
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The hololens will fail, the FOV is too narrow to be useful. The meta 2 is already better.
Yes, Hololens will fail, but not because of the Meta 2. The Meta 2 gets its processing power from a tethered top of the line desktop computer. Hololens on the other hand is untethered. It has all the processing power it needs inside its helmet. The two devices are not comparable at all.
That being said, I agree with you. What Microsoft originally bought from ODG for $120 million was a license to their AR technology, it was never meant to double as an immersive VR gaming platform. If Microsoft couldn't acquir
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So you can use word and excel while riding your bicycle
Hololens =Small Screen+ Windows Phone+ Intel Mobile CPU/GPU +Small Battery= 3 hours= Winning?
Meta 2+ Macbook Air + backpack = 12 hours = coding env from heaven
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My company's VR tech actually teleports you (Score:1)
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.
Because ... (Score:2)
it's useful to do that?
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Except everyone who wants to see the hologram has to wear a hololens headset.
All the benefits of a conference call, but much less convenient and much more expensive.
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Vader certainly didn't have a problem with that when talking to the emperor...
Front runner? no. (Score:3, Insightful)
>> 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.
Gah! Skype/Hangouts video is already a menace! (Score:2)
Especially if you are at home and haven't gotten dressed and the call starts in video/holo mode without being asked!
Rgds
Damon
Well, if you're the owner of a HoloLens... (Score:4, Interesting)
"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.
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If you have bandwidth you can off load the processing to axure of Amazon.
Though holoconferencing sounds better. Personally I can't wait until we get star wars style holoconferencing though.
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Personally I can't wait until we get star wars style holoconferencing though.
The killer feature will be remotely choking people: "You have failed me for the last time, Admiral."
Re: Well, if you're the owner of a HoloLens... (Score:2)
'Killer' feature indeed
So... (Score:3)
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?
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What does someone get out of me standing there?
Body language, emotive expressions, a feel for your interest in conversation. That's why Skype is such a hit. Now, the big question is whether a grainy whole body image of you is better than a moderately high rez image of your face.
For Carrie Fisher perhaps. For the rest of us, not so much.
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Body language, emotive expressions, a feel for your interest in conversation.
Also boobs.
Holobaloney (Score:2)
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."
Holobaloney aside.. (Score:2)
That's all well and good. . . (Score:1)
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?
Obligatory (Score:2)
This freely available visual novel [visionmachine.net] is a must-read, now that corporation-driven virtual reality is becoming real (pun not intended).
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s/virtual reality/augmented reality.
If you thought conference calls were bad... (Score:2)
you're gonna hate this!
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How long until it becomes racist? (Score:2)
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.
Virtual Hitler? (Score:2)
Since Microsoft has publicly announced they're a big fan of him, will Microsoft use this to show us a virtual Hitler?