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Microsoft HoloLens



  Clio
Watched the video the other day. Although the concept seems good I think the reality is we are still a decade or two away from this being widely useable technology.
 
  Listerine & Poledo
They can use whatever tech buzz words they like.
It's the same idea as google glass, but more bi-directional and with improved integration options. Much the same as GG would have ended up with too.
Given these things will be released "during the lifespan" of Windows 10, I guess they'll be out with limited capability, sometime just before 2020.

In the mean time, just punch holes in the back of a Virtual Boy, effect achieved.
 

The Psychedelic Socialist

ClioSport Club Member
They can use whatever tech buzz words they like.
It's the same idea as google glass, but more bi-directional and with improved integration options. Much the same as GG would have ended up with too.
Given these things will be released "during the lifespan" of Windows 10, I guess they'll be out with limited capability, sometime just before 2020.

In the mean time, just punch holes in the back of a Virtual Boy, effect achieved.

It's the same idea as google glass?

...and a McLaren P1's the same idea as a Tata Nano.

GG might have ended up with all kinds of stuff but it didn't and the user experience was vastly different.
 
  Listerine & Poledo
It's the same idea as google glass?
...and a McLaren P1's the same idea as a Tata Nano.
GG might have ended up with all kinds of stuff but it didn't and the user experience was vastly different.
Well, you go buy one when they're released and let us know how your virtual motorbike building goes.
One thing is guarnteed though, you will look like a proper bellend walking around with those on, even more so when the battery chuffs out or the whole thing just bluescreens.
 
Well, you go buy one when they're released and let us know how your virtual motorbike building goes.
One thing is guarnteed though, you will look like a proper bellend walking around with those on, even more so when the battery chuffs out or the whole thing just bluescreens.
Aren't you a bundle of joy today.
 

The Psychedelic Socialist

ClioSport Club Member
Well, you go buy one when they're released and let us know how your virtual motorbike building goes.
One thing is guarnteed though, you will look like a proper bellend walking around with those on, even more so when the battery chuffs out or the whole thing just bluescreens.

Maybe we're looking at entirely different things here.

Google Glass to me was essentially an extension of your smartphone to be used wandering about town, looking like a tit in public and filming people without them knowing before filming the same people kicking your head in.

HoloLens is to be used at home, so you can look like a tit without people seeing you and having a different computing interface for casual gaming, skype-ing, and maybe moving into VR.

Totally different products aren't they?
 

banther

ClioSport Club Member
I'll hold back until Pornhub becomes compatible.

For real though - is this actually going to become a thing soon? Or one of these 'concepts' that get banded around. I see a lot of chat about Oculus Rift on gaming websites etc. but note that it hasnt been released.

I had gone off Microsoft a while back (except for work) but I think Windows 10 looks stonking.
 
  Listerine & Poledo
Totally different products aren't they?
Kind of, but also, not really
They're both headsets with integrated screens. Just one has much grander dreams about its capabilities.

It would be brilliant if this Microsoft effort, combined with Cortana, became, in essence MS Jarvis.

But if google, masters of all things pointless, can't get it to take hold, I can't see Microsoft doing massively better.
Slap a half-eaten fruit on the side though....well, every hipster will be ditching their lens-less frames for these immediately
 

The Psychedelic Socialist

ClioSport Club Member
Kind of, but also, not really
They're both headsets with integrated screens. Just one has much grander dreams about its capabilities.

It would be brilliant if this Microsoft effort, combined with Cortana, became, in essence MS Jarvis.

But if google, masters of all things pointless, can't get it to take hold, I can't see Microsoft doing massively better.
Slap a half-eaten fruit on the side though....well, every hipster will be ditching their lens-less frames for these immediately

Yeah but I think Google's problem was expecting people to wear that sh*t outside which was just asking for trouble.

I'm quite happy looking like a berk at home if I get the full Iron Man interface.

Of course if they paid Paul Bettany to provide the voice for this thing it'd probably fly off the shelves ;)
 
  Listerine & Poledo
I'm quite happy looking like a berk at home if I get the full Iron Man interface.
Of course if they paid Paul Bettany to provide the voice for this thing it'd probably fly off the shelves :wink:
Exactly.
less of this
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more of this
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I could turn over CAD drawings in minutes with a Jarvis.
But a glossy Cortana helmet with Facebook and Netflix integration, I can live without
 

CrippsCorner

ClioSport Club Member
  Astra VXR
As others have sort of pointed out, the main difference for me here is that Google wanted you to walk around in public looking like a t**t... whereas Microsoft want you using this thing at home and/or at the work place; that seems much more likely. It does seem out of reach atm but hopefully they'll pull it off.

Either way, this is much more exciting than the Apple Watch :grinning:
 


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