Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
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#2That's pretty evil/clever of them to throw Minecraft into their marketing images.
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#3It seriously took me several minutes to realize this wasn't a joke. Even Peter Bright on the Ars live blog had to stop and say "wat".
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#4Now it makes sense that Google just announced that they're stopping Glass from being sold retail. They did not want to have their device compared to the new product from MS. Actually I see this new device as more prone to success than the Glass. These devices are competing for the same markets: healthcare, education and entertainment. And here Glass is somewhat underpowered.
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#5It seriously took me several minutes to realize this wasn't a joke. Even Peter Bright on the Ars live blog had to stop and say "wat".
The name doesn't quite sound right, which triggered the same response in me.
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#6Key feature: see-through glasses. The eye strain was a major problem with Google Glass, that's not present here.
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#7The future is here.
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#8Is it really "holographic", or just stereoscopic?
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#9It was demoed just right now here: http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/
It looks really really really impressive! It's a see through pair of glasses so not like Occulus and they said they invented a new technology: HPU. The glasses will have their own GPU, CPU and HPU and will be wireless.
Re: Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
#10Now it makes sense that Google just announced that they're stopping Glass from being sold retail. They did not want to have their device compared to the new product from MS. Actually I see this new device as more prone to success than the Glass. These devices are competing for the same markets: healthcare, education and entertainment. And here Glass is somewhat underpowered.
Google's response would presumably be their partnership with Magic Leap.