Microsoft Introduces HoloLens, Digital Holograms that Interact with your Physical Environment.

Everyone who have seen the Iron Man movies probably love the way Tony Stark manipulates 3D holograms when he's working on his inventions. Well, Microsoft unveiled yesterday during their Windows 10 announcement something which seems to use the same kind of technology that Tony Stark uses in the Iron Man movies.

During the presentation the Microsoft guys had a "one more thing" to introduce to the world, and it's called HoloLens. HoloLens is a see-through headset that allows you to see digital holograms that interact with your physical environment. Holographic technology - as they call it because i'm not sure we can call this real "holograms" - seems to be a big deal right now but for me and as cool as it looks it seems to be closer to "augmented reality" than real holograms, that's why i don't buy really what Microsoft is trying to sell us in their marketing presentation.

Anyway, check out the videos below. and let's wait until we try this technology in real to see if it is really amazing, or just a "one more thing" which will make our lives probably more "fun", but not necessarily better.







Picture and video: copyright Microsoft

A Vision of the Future Imagined by Microsoft

The video below called "Productivity Future Vision" is Microsoft vision of the future. A future where tablets are so thin that you wonder where their energy is coming from and where people don't really talk any more with each other, but if we except this i have to say that the video looks pretty cool. The only problem is that it's probably pure vapor and i am curious to see if Microsoft will be able to release all this for real. More probably it will end like the Courier tablet project which looked wonderful and that they finally killed themselves when the Apple iPad was released.

Anyway, have a look at this future imagined by Microsoft!




Video: copyright Microsoft