The virtual workspace of the future is being packed up inside of boxes and is getting sent out right the heck now! Or later. Maybe someone was too trigger happy, here. But maybe the Microsoft HoloLens is something to be happy about. We’ve seen the specs and demos and the pre-orders were made by ...
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While we’re most likely still a fairly long way from enjoying the excitement of football stadium attendance in our living rooms with the HoloLens headset, Microsoft’s Windows Holographic mixed reality computing platform is starting to make some similarly cool things happen.Case in point, the Actiongram “experience” that will become available to ...
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A little over an hour ago, at 10am Eastern, HTC opened its doors for pre-orders of the Vive virtual reality headset. With a head-mounted display, wall trackers, and a pair of wireless controllers, Vive’s hoping to give users one of the most well-rounded VR experiences they can come by – but it’s not alone. Last month, Oculus Rift got its own pre-order party ...
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No matter what your hardware preference, the era of high-quality consumer-ready virtual reality is upon us: following the January start to Oculus Rift pre-orders, HTC Vive pre-orders have themselves just gone live. That means we’ve got only a few short weeks to go before these devices are in the hands (and on the heads) of users everywhere, and we start seeing the ...
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Technically, the vast majority of today’s smartwatches and especially so-called fitness bands are focused among others on improving the health of their wearers. But aside from counting steps, tracking workouts, estimating calories burned and monitoring sleep habits (oftentimes rather clumsily), very few can actually help make a difference in an owner’s life.Microsoft is looking to change the way you interact with intelligent wearables, according to a patent application filed last October and published recently by the USPTO. This is in fact a continuation of a concept first envisioned ...
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As Super Bowl 50 approaches, it’s probably time you bowed out of the race for a big game ticket sold at the average price of around $5,000 online. After all, you got your large-screen TV, unlimited hot dogs and beer at your disposal, not to mention a comfy seat on the couch and the best angles CBS cameras can bring you.But what if there was a way to further enhance the living room football-watching experience, basically beaming the excitement from the stadium to mere inches away from your eyes? That’s right, we’re talking augmented reality, though it’s important to note actual ...
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Last week, we took a look at the future of mobile tech. Specifically, we talked about Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality and how they compared to each other. Now, it’s time to talk about two specific devices that are pioneering those frontiers – Microsoft’s HoloLens and the HTC’s Vive Pre. You may remember our HTC Vive Pre hands-on video from CES. Though I only made a brief appearance in that video, I was wearing a great ...
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After nearly a year’s worth of buildup, we are still nowhere near close to the coming of the HoloLens, Microsoft’s (pricy) all-in-one productivity computing solution with integrated augmented reality. But the roadshow goes on and so do the
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With the Consumer Electronics Show already behind us, and the Mobile World Congress drawing near, it might start feeling like the most exciting part of the year for gadget enthusiasts will be over before you get a chance to take a breath.But fret not, as there’s plenty left in the tank for the industry’s heavyweights to make the headlines in March and beyond. Just a little over a month after MWC 2016 wraps up, Microsoft shall have its traditional Build ...
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Two big developments are happening in wearable tech right now – and specifically, in regards to head-mounted displays. Companies like Oculus VR and HTC are about to release fully immersive VR headsets, transporting their users to new virtual worlds. Then there’s Microsoft, whose HoloLens keeps users centered in the real world, while projecting an augmented reality interface that attempts to blend computer-generated graphics with the world around us. We’ve already told you a lot about ...
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Microsoft is always known as a software-first company, up to the point where you’re stopped on your tracks by the Xbox. As a result it’s easy to assume that Redmond was also planning for its new HoloLens to be a product built in house and not licensed to others as we see with Windows, but then again, a lot of opportunity would be lost there, and Microsoft knows that.Today it seems that ASUS CEO Jonney Shih and Microsoft’s head of Windows and devices Terry Myerson have confirmed that ASUS will be building an augmented reality headset that will be powered by
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Wow.Do you know how long it has been since I’ve said that after a mobile launch event? It has been a while. Just wow. Too often at mobile events, there is so much rhetoric about “powerful this” and “performance that”, followed by photos of attractive people doing wonderful things all over the world and it all just balls up into the same formulaic press event that you’re probably better off skipping. Just watch the highlights on YouTube, you’ll be fine.Not Microsoft’s event though. Yes, there was rhetoric. Yes there were buzz words. There were even ...
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Microsoft’s big Windows devices event is underway, and while we haven’t gotten to those eagerly awaited Windows 10 Mobile phones just yet, things are off to an exciting start. Microsoft brought its crowd-pleasing HoloLens VR headset back to the stage, wowing the crowd with a live augmented reality demo.Between this and the earlier demos we’ve seen, there’s little denying that HoloLens looks incredibly fun (and we’re sure it has some very important industrial uses, too), but ...
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Microsoft has done a good job at wowing the world with its new HoloLens project, but obviously at this point it’s just that, a project. We have yet to see when this will become a reality for the enterprise and consumers, so it does leave the door open for any competitor to try to find a way to use these ideas and compete. Apple is notorious for grabbing existing ideas and launching them with its own touch, and today we learn of its probable next project.Trusted sources claim that Apple has ...
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Samsung and Google may have gotten the ball rolling with Gear VR and Cardboard, but head-mounted 3D isn’t done there; at today’s Windows 10 event, Microsoft announced its next-gen augmented reality system, Windows Holographic.The hugely ambitious project will draw on APIs introduced in Windows 10 to give developers the tools they need to allow users to interact with virtual displays that seem to seamlessly blend into the world around them.Of course, you need some advanced hardware to pull of a feat like that, and for this Microsoft has its own HMD, the Microsoft HoloLens ...
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