I'd settle for that holographic puppy at the end of the video!
Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I'm just not sure that I buy the idea that there's a big market for an expert coaching you through doing repairs via AR goggles. How exactly does this work? You still need to pay for an expert's time -- in fact, you probably need to pay more for it, because the expert is probably faster to do a thing than to explain the thing to you and then you do it. Also, the expert now needs to be someone with these additio…
Training. Emergency assistance. Military applications. Don't trap yourself by thinking that the item needs to be the be-all for the Joneses.
Yeah this could make putting Ikea furniture together alot easier.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe that the TB reference comes from listening to Alex Kipman at the Microsoft announcement event. In speaking about the so-called "HPU" (around 01:50 in http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7867593/microsoft-announce... , second video) Kipman mentions "processing terabytes of information from all of these sensors". This is straight from the proverbial horse's mouth, and while it seems hype-ish it should be looked…
He didn't say "per second" though, so the OPs quote is just a piece of bad reporting.
I'm pretty sure he didn't say that the HPU was processing it either. He said something along the lines of "when we look around a room our brains process terabytes of data".
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are various times in history when vacuum cleaners, cell phones and browsing the web would have made ZERO sense to your non-technical family. People will learn new words that define new things and then suddenly it will seem the most natural thing in the world to call it by that name.
Portable tape players were cool. Then suddenly Sony made one, and we now all (those of us old enough) remember fondly our first or favorite walkman, whether it was and actual Walkman or not. Smart Phones were hot tech, but our non-technical families didn't really get the point until suddenly those "smart phones" were "iPhones". Web searches were a mystical dark art, with all your Alta Vista voodoo, until there was a…
What are you talking about? The walkman was the first portable tape player commercially available.
Also what Google brought that Altavista didn't have was that it actually returned relevant results, not pages of spam where webmaster cranked as many keywords as they could (including "Pamela Anderson", always).
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are various times in history when vacuum cleaners, cell phones and browsing the web would have made ZERO sense to your non-technical family. People will learn new words that define new things and then suddenly it will seem the most natural thing in the world to call it by that name.
Sometimes people learn new words, other times keeping old words (usually modified) works better. To take your example, in Turkish the word for vacuum cleaner literally translates as "electric broom", and cell phones are commonly called "cep" which actually translates as "pocket". Or consider the British who still use electric torches (that's a flashlight for all you non-Brits).
and just about everyone says "hoover" not vacuum cleaner
I bet it would take along time for most people asked "how does a vacuum cleaner work?" to use the word vacuum, apart from as a name for the object.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are various times in history when vacuum cleaners, cell phones and browsing the web would have made ZERO sense to your non-technical family. People will learn new words that define new things and then suddenly it will seem the most natural thing in the world to call it by that name.
Portable tape players were cool. Then suddenly Sony made one, and we now all (those of us old enough) remember fondly our first or favorite walkman, whether it was and actual Walkman or not. Smart Phones were hot tech, but our non-technical families didn't really get the point until suddenly those "smart phones" were "iPhones". Web searches were a mystical dark art, with all your Alta Vista voodoo, until there was a…
My mp3 player is still an actual Walkman.
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#317I don't understand why there is no comment about the probably most important aspect: The image quality. Is it low resolution or really high def and you can't see single pixels?!
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google's response would presumably be their partnership with Magic Leap.
1 year to product announcement, but the whole retina-projection thing might be game changing.
I met a guy in 1998 who had done his Ph.D building full color direct to retina projection. He was doing VR with it back then. That's how long this technology has been in development.
He did it at MIT and if I understood correctly, the US military bought everything (he had no say in the matter).
Re: Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
#319I don't understand why there is no comment about the probably most important aspect: The image quality. Is it low resolution or really high def and you can't see single pixels?!
engadget:
-field of view is extremely limited. There's a rectangular area in the center of your vision that acts as your "window"
-image was relatively transparent
-HoloLens is clearly very early, and kinda sucks right now.
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#320I can't see this becoming a consumer product.