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HoloLens augmented reality headset shows promise

Three months ago, Microsoft showed off its brand-new and entirely unexpected HoloLens augmented reality headset, a nifty bit of kit that overlays the real world with handy holograms rather than take over your entire field of vision with a virtual reality like the Oculus Rift does.

In the time since, it’s been made known that NASA is using the headset to explore Mars remotely, the studio behind the Forza games is developing something HoloLens-related, and there’s a Minecraft game in the works that will let you build structures on your home’s surfaces.

At last night’s Build keynote, the company showed off a bit more of what the headset can do in a live demo that augmented a robot with an animated character that floated above it, and showed off how the physical robot’s sensors could present data overlaid on reality.

While that video (via CNET) was pretty neat, of more interest to me was the way HoloLens lets you drag apps, photos and videos onto surfaces in your home, and pin them there.

So, for example if I want to watch a video, and I have a wall big enough, I can essentially pin a TV-sized virtual window to my wall and watch the movie in a size of my choosing. Microsoft also emphasised that all “universal apps” developed for Windows 10 will work with HoloLens, allowing them to be pinned just about anywhere.

Watch the video, and join me in pondering the possibilities this new tech opens up.

[Source – CNET]

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