If you have not heard of the new Windows Hololens device, then you must be under a rock somewhere. This device is so fucking cool. This contraption that you wear on your face basically is an Augmented Reality device, it displays images on the glass in front of your eyes, to make it appear that the images are holograms. This thing works with Windows 10, it has retina location software, voice recognition, all kinds of cool things. From what they have shown in the Youtube videos, there is a lot of application for what I would consider to be Professional use, 3d design, modeling etc.
The items they show for personal use, like the Netflix, Skype, etc look really cool but I can see the limitations like the Skype you can see them but they cant see you presumably and that was the whole point of Skype. They have a Minecraft type game that overlays your furniture and seems like it interacts with your environment, make a waterfall run off the coffee table for example. I really think this device is cool, but people have already said that if you wear glasses it is really uncomfortable, and when watching people demonstrate the device the hand gestures and voice commands seem like they have to be so deliberate, that is kind of a turn off to me. I want to be able to play my PC games in a new way that really pulls me in, I want to watch Netflix on a crazy huge virtual screen before my eyes, I believe that I will have to strap one of these bad boys to my face to really fall in love with it. Hololens is a cool device, and is going in the right direction.
On another note this guy(Alex) Microsoft got to narrate the demonstration has to be the strangest little man I have seen in some time
it seems that he really has a hard time with public speaking, his voice constantly cracks like a teen boy, and his interaction with the demonstrator is really disingenuous, he just sounds fake, like when he says "OOO i like it" in response to something the demonstrator says, sounds really fake.Demo Video Funny Voice Crack 2:03
People are saying Oct 2015 for release, and guesses are ranging from $500-$1000 for price point. We shall see.
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