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This is potentially a gamechanger imo... with Microsoft's budgets... whoa...

http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us

+ 40k (watch TV anywhere!)

= take my money



An app could be written to do 40k sort of like the one people use for 40k matches online now. No models and no dice and play remotely. Instead of painting your models it could just be create new animations or new skins. Develop basic skins and models but let the community mod them. This could be huge. I could have an army of naked guardsmen that piss lasfire! You know there would be a S&M sisters of battle. This could be a great startup.


Besides the challenges of incorporating software with this product, the hardware needs to be robust, energy efficient and comfortable.

So... a "holodeck" in every room, eh?

Right...... remember what they promised the kinnect was going to do?



Yeah me too. No thanks

 KingCracker wrote:
Right...... remember what they promised the kinnect was going to do?



Yeah me too. No thanks

I do dislike being a downer, but I have to agree with KingCracker here. Release it and if it actually works like they say, first I'll spend 10 minutes dumbstruck and then I'll go buy one.

You notice how only the POV character even had one on? All of the people reacting to them or showing them how to do stuff didn't have one. Probably because they'll be so damn expensive and awkward to wear.

If its anything like teaching your phone speech or gestures... i would think it may be a step in the right direction but I doubt any of that stuff they do in the video will be doable by the average individual out of the box.

Will probably take a long period of gesture training for one thing. And then when the guy was painting that rocket with the digital airbrush? Well you'd actually have to be able to handle the physical portion of the program....


I dunno, could be neat!

A voice in my head says this is a bad development, that it will cause people to live even more in a fake, virtual world and have even less attention for other people. Just like mobile phones, but worse.
I am probably just mad.

Like most normal people who saw this video, I'm very interested.

I want it, and will buy one if the tech gets cheap and good enough.

So next-gen Google Glasses?

 Iron_Captain wrote:
A voice in my head says this is a bad development, that it will cause people to live even more in a fake, virtual world and have even less attention for other people. Just like mobile phones, but worse.
I am probably just mad.

The future is now!

Hey, maybe they were fat... but they seemed happy, if a bit apathetic.

You know that guy in Watch_Dogs walking around the park shooting imaginary aliens? Yes, you too can be that jackass!

 GrimDork wrote:
Hey, maybe they were fat... but they seemed happy, if a bit apathetic.

It should be noted that part of reason in the movie is loss of bone mass due to low gravity.

 d-usa wrote:
So next-gen Google Glasses?

 Iron_Captain wrote:
A voice in my head says this is a bad development, that it will cause people to live even more in a fake, virtual world and have even less attention for other people. Just like mobile phones, but worse.
I am probably just mad.

The future is now!

Ya but that was a really good movie so...... yeah!

It was a nice video, but showed nothing at all.

 whembly wrote:

An app could be written to do 40k sort of like the one people use for 40k matches online now. No models and no dice and play remotely.

This is dakka OT. Keep your 40k for elsewhere. The important thing here is 3D PORN!

 GrimDork wrote:

If its anything like teaching your phone speech or gestures....

I don't know about gesture training, but speech training on a PC is a doodle. The issue with phones is limited processing power, lots of background noise and they try and do it mostly on the fly rather than a setup. Programs like Dragon Naturally Speaking are pretty good out of the box and only takes about 10 mins to run through the setup, where by it is very accurate.

I could see this giving some interesting possibilities, and now MS have got in to it I can see something good coming along soon. I would guess we are at the stage with things like the ocolus rift where we were with MP3 players in 1999/2000. We are just waiting for someone to do what the iPod did for music players. I think this is the next big thing. It could also be the tech that brings 3D printers in to the mainstream. CAD programs can be a pain, mostly because most people are not good at thinking in 3D, but this could make the jump.

If they can sell it for under £500 as a peripheral or £1k as a standalone unit I would be very interested, assuming it is as slim and unbulky as they say. The rift is interesting, but too heavy and too restrictive. If they can keep it under £2k to start with I think they will have a winner, as long as prices go down in the near future and it is anything like the video.

I wasn't thrilled about google glass. I don't think I'm thrilled about this. I mean, the possibilities seem endless and alluring, but I enjoy getting away from screens sometimes, not depending upon them to do absolutely everything for me. Cluttering my apartment with virtual minecraft does sound fun though.

Also, Microsoft's R&D puts out some pretty impressive things... that don't go anywhere and quietly die. Remember Surface? That really incredible table looking thing that interacted with objects and stuff before they repoed the Surface name to slap it on a tablet line? I think they still have it around and call it something else nowadays, but I don't recall what it is, because they haven't actually done anything with that tech in so long.

Wait a tick........... is this the start of Sword Art Online?!?! I'd be down with that!

 daedalus wrote:
I think they still have it around and call it something else nowadays, but I don't recall what it is, because they haven't actually done anything with that tech in so long.

I think it is called Skylanders

Totally won't be primarily used for porn.

On man..... I won't lie porn on something like would cause a lot of damage to our race as a whole. I mean, I know what a man went through to get his hands on a Cherry 2000, and this isn't too far from that.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Totally won't be primarily used for porn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31096007

 Skinnereal wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Totally won't be primarily used for porn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31096007

Related article on the page: "VR glove that allows you to feel".

 d-usa wrote:

 Skinnereal wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
Totally won't be primarily used for porn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31096007

Related article on the page: "VR glove that allows you to feel".

I like where this is going... please tell me more!