Shrinking it all and putting it on the coffee table was a nice trick.
Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens
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#22Nice "demo"... Microsoft lately seems to be really good at being a "proof of concept developer." Which is cool and all that, but then people wait and forget why it was so cool. As a comparison, Apple holds back their tech till it is polished and ready for market, so people are excited and start literally lining up to get whatever it is... And when they get it for the most part they aren’t disappointed, because it is…
That sounds insulting to the scientific research itself. Comparing the huge amount of research Microsoft Research division does to whatever Apple does to produce their consumer devices is really ridiculous. You can hold back on a 1-inch increase in screen-size until it's "market-ready" but you can't apply that to the real research areas.
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#23Nice "demo"... Microsoft lately seems to be really good at being a "proof of concept developer." Which is cool and all that, but then people wait and forget why it was so cool. As a comparison, Apple holds back their tech till it is polished and ready for market, so people are excited and start literally lining up to get whatever it is... And when they get it for the most part they aren’t disappointed, because it is…
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#24Hey, this looks pretty impressive. It also makes me want to imagine some of the video game uses of the technology, like say, how cool a Five Nights at Freddy's game would be based on this tech...
To some degree, it also reminds me a bit of a certain villain from Teen Titans...
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#25I was waiting for this, knew it was only a matter of time before Microsoft came out with something like this since it's right in their field of office products. Hopefully this is the catalyst needed to create better work/life balance and lower the barrier for remote work and make it just as productive as being present in the office.
For remote work, what are the advantages of this over a good video conferencing/screen sharing type of setup.
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#26So, an idea: How much work would it take to segregate just the augmented reality displays as a pair of glasses that a user can wear while receiving the display data wirelessly? I say this because once you can do that, you can have (for instance) an executive conference room setup with a number of identical conference rooms scattered around the world, each with a server performing the hololens rendering logic and rend…
Once we get there anyone will be free to re-enact Kingsman at will
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#27I see they learned from their previous campaigns, where they focused on the ability to "work from anywhere" and were criticized[1] for creating a strange, dystopian vision of all work and no leisure. Now, they are focusing much more on the personal aspects in their marketing, even though their primary market is fairly likely to be business.
[1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3683-microsofts-dystopian-pit...
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#28I was waiting for this, knew it was only a matter of time before Microsoft came out with something like this since it's right in their field of office products. Hopefully this is the catalyst needed to create better work/life balance and lower the barrier for remote work and make it just as productive as being present in the office.
For remote work, what are the advantages of this over a good video conferencing/screen sharing type of setup.
It's really hard to say exactly what it is, just as I can't tell you exactly why being physically next to somebody is better than a video conference, but it is. This would bring us one step closer to being physically present without actually being so just as video brought us one step closer than we were with just phone calls.
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#29Pretty cool, but my first thought is: how authentic will communication be when "holoporting" to each other if you both have those big hololens mounted on your head? It will be hard to pick up on each other's facial expressions and impossible to look into each other's eyes.
Hololens will eventually be a contact lens. Progress is progress.
Might as well say that this will eventually be transporter or holodeck. The best we can assume at this point is that they'll reduce this down to something like a pair of large sunglasses, but even that's a bit optimistic without some revolutionary changes in optics.
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#30Thats very impressive, looking forward to seeing this advance in the next few years.