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Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens

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Re: Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens

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Post by mizzao »

stinos wrote: post #73
LarryMade2 wrote: post #9

Nice "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…

Microsoft lately seems to be really good at being a "proof of concept developer." AFAIK not really just lately : the research department has been going strong for tens of years, coming up with stuff like this which is on the edge of what currently available tech can do. It's maybe just lately it gets more press/HN coverage than 20 or so years ago.

Microsoft Research was started in 1989, to replicate the Bell Labs model.

(I work there.)

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Post by ibejoeb »

blisse wrote: post #55
veritas3241 wrote: post #33

He seemed extremely careful not to let his daughter walk through him. He always made room for her. I wonder if there have been studies done to assess how creepy it might be to have a family member walk right through you...

I think it was more of a gut reaction of "here's something moving towards me, let me get out of its way", rather than being extremely careful. I don't think we're at all ready for having things passing through us.

I believe he was demonstrating spatial awareness, or perhaps it's merely because the compositer doesn't do well with intersection.

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Post by r3bl »

lipanski wrote: post #82

Is it just me or HoloLens sounds a bit like a Hooli product? All jokes aside, given that the rendering quality improves, this could have interesting applications for scientists researching facial and body expressions in certain environments. It would enable them to replay scenes and emotions which current 2D/3D video fails to capture, especially because it allows you to change your viewpoint. I doubt this will be a g…

NASA already uses Hololens to get the scientists to feel like they're walking on Mars. Rovers basically capture the footage from Mars in all perspectives, these pictures get transferred back to Earth, and scientists are able to "walk" on Mars with as low delay as possible (of course, it takes a while to transfer the images down to Earth). It's a remarkable thing and I really do feel like Hololens (or some other Augmented Reality project) will have a huge impact on the scientific community.

I did an interview with a software developer from NASA about this project: https://opensource.com/life/16/1/scale14x-interview-parker-a...

Re: Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens

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Post by ickwabe »

neals wrote: post #87

I never hear or see anybody mention this, but I feel that it is important to note that the actual surface area of the HoloLens is currently way to small to give anything resembling the presented experiences. They always show the hololens used from a third perspective. Filmed with a camera, not the actual Hololens capture. The hololens that I got to use (admittedly, almost a year ago now) was just nowhere near the exp…

These folks have a ted talk video on their front page where they show the view from inside their headset. Seems reasonably expansive.

https://www.metavision.com/

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Post by SirBenet »

blisse wrote: post #55
veritas3241 wrote: post #33

He seemed extremely careful not to let his daughter walk through him. He always made room for her. I wonder if there have been studies done to assess how creepy it might be to have a family member walk right through you...

I think it was more of a gut reaction of "here's something moving towards me, let me get out of its way", rather than being extremely careful. I don't think we're at all ready for having things passing through us.

I also found it interesting (though possibly scripted) how he stuck his hand out at 2:55 as if to try to stop her from falling.

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Post by cududa »

SolarNet wrote: post #90
neals wrote: post #87

I never hear or see anybody mention this, but I feel that it is important to note that the actual surface area of the HoloLens is currently way to small to give anything resembling the presented experiences. They always show the hololens used from a third perspective. Filmed with a camera, not the actual Hololens capture. The hololens that I got to use (admittedly, almost a year ago now) was just nowhere near the exp…

They are actually pretty close to the FoV limit that the display technology they are using can provide. Magic Leap is going to have the same problem unless they have found a new technology since their original hints. Also long term use will probably burn your retinas out, they are likely running those lasers at the barely safe limits for brief exposure.

Don't know who told you that but that's not true at all. I've used test hardware that was the same display and had a full FOV (just needed to be connected to external power and GPU)

Re: Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens

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Post by maroonblazer »

randiantech wrote: post #86
hanniabu wrote: post #2

I 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.

I know it may sound trivial, but I work from home almost every day using short pants and no shoes. What I want to say is that home is still home, my kids will appear and yield, my tv might be turned on, and the dog would eventually bark. By no means I would want to transform my home in an office, I work from home for lot of things that wont be allowed in an office ever. And thats fine, I guess.

I work for MSFT but don't work on HoloLens.

Not all remote work is created equal. There are certain kinds of work that require richer kinds of interaction. E.g. whiteboarding, prioritizing with Post-It notes, brainstorming. Anyone who tries to "dial in" to one of these meetings is perpetually behind those in the room given they can't see what's on the wall/whiteboard. I could imagine technology like this making that kind of remote work much more productive.

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