Microsoft 3D hologram headset: I see Mike and Vicky walking by me

WendyLuvsCatz

From The New York Times:

At Windows 10 Event, Microsoft Introduces HoloLens 3-D Headset

With the headset, 3-D objects appear to be inserted into the real world.

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Mistara

the possibilities, gianni and leon of the night, with me, make three. :)

WendyLuvsCatz

except people seeing us chatting to ourselves in the mall with those weird shades on are gonna give us a wide berth! :lol:

WendyLuvsCatz

a bit more on it

CypherFOX

Greetings,
I've been itching to get my hands on a DK2 from Oculus. It's one of the things that really, really excites me. I have hundreds of gigs of 3D content and a tool that lets me lay all of it out, pose characters, provide animation cues (rigging), etc... The idea of turning all that into a virtual environment which I can walk through with a 3D headset is epic.

Sure, making a commercial (or free) product out of it requires decimation and game licenses (I'm not that much of a newb!) but doing stuff for my own use is awesome enough that I can't wait until I'm doing a bit better financially and able to get my hands on one of the Oculus Development Kits.

Microsoft's is different, it's presenting the world around you and allowing 3D objects to sit on top of things. (Although I'd have to watch the video again to see if they're claiming a way of showing 3D objects 'behind' existing objects automatically. There are ways to do this, but they're not easy.)

Anyway, as a community of folks with a large investment in, and large supply of 3D objects...well, honestly, we're in the catbirds seat for this kind of technology!

-- Morgan