Augmented Reality
| Microsoft's announcement of the HoloLens project could usher in a new era of computing, seamlessly blending the real and virtual worlds. The device could specifically mean big changes for gaming and communications applications. |
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en years before Steve Jobs was able to popularize the tablet, Bill Gates first launched Microsoft’s touchscreen tablet computer. It works exactly like the tablet that people use today with only one difference: design. Steve Jobs’ line of iPad computers looked sleeker and modern compared to Microsoft’s archaic, bulky, and gray tablet. As a result, Microsoft’s tablet failed and Apple is getting all the credit for Bill’s innovation.
Now, Mircrosoft has yet another toy to introduce to the world and hopefully, the company will be able to market it properly this time.
This year, Mircosoft announced its newest gadget called HoloLens – a device that will allow people to do their computing using holographic images. The new technology will use Windows 10, and promises to bring high-definition images and videos to life even without the use of walls or projector screens.
HoloLens will improve the way people do things every day, and perhaps the industries that will benefit most from this is communications and gaming. With HoloLens, people will feel closer to the person they’re taking with. Gaming, on the other hand, will be more immersive and personal. Action games will be more hardcore than ever, horror games will be scarier (imagine holographic images of zombies running after you), and casino games will be more interactive. Right now, online casinos can only go as far as becoming portals to a variety of high-def table and slot games. But with HoloLens, people will be able to interact with croupiers better and feel like they’re sitting at actual casino tables in the comfort of their own home.
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Microsoft’s HoloLens goes beyond today’s Augmented Reality (AR) technology by allowing people to touch 3D holograms that are completely blended into the real world. HoloLens is more than just AR’s heads-up display that simply distorts images on the smartphone or tablet. HoloLens’ transparency means that users will be able to use a virtual computer without losing the real-life environment that’s around them.
So far, Microsoft’s HoloLens seems very promising. It would probably even leave a mark in history before it gets launched for public consumption, since it will be used by scientists who are working on a project for Mars. The scientists will be using the technology in order to virtually walk on the surface of Mars – something that was not possible before the inception of the HoloLens.
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