A while back during its code names and whatnot it was hinted on a console just like the kinect when it was in its code name days was shown to view and recognize you before it was shown on Xbox
*I commented this on another comment, but I'll post it again here because it is relevant--* I'm not saying that either console is better, but for the of you saying this has nothing to do with Sony, you are wrong. The gaming applications for this (via integration with Xbox One) are endless. It has much more potential than Project Morpheus ever will. If this pans out, it will have a direct effect on the Xbox ecosystem, thus it will also affect Sony. This is why competition is such a good thing. You think Sony won't begin looking into AR after this? We all benefit. That said, this thing looks fucking awesome. I'm excited for the gaming and real world applications that will come from this.
Carlitos Ramos you don't need to comment things like that, just make some fanboy kiddies appear to start a console war. that will just waste your time..
Oculus rift comes out, loads of companies make rip off copies of it, including Sony, then Microsoft come out with something which is actually an innovative , original idea, I honestly think this is the future , this is amazing, I'm so glad this has come out because I've seen all the VRs and they are honestly shìt, they have crappy games with crappy graphics that are just unimpressive, but this is truly awsome.
I would think that if you truly wanted to argue about that, you need to curb your bias a little bit. Because your bias is blinding you pretty severely. And no, I'm not being a fanboy. I'm being 100% serious. You assume Oculus is a crap company, and therefore don't keep up with them or completely ignore anything oculus. I guess what you don't realize is that Oculus is making headway like you wouldn't believe. BUT, they keep quiet. VERY quiet. But they should be getting their headset out within a year. And it's going to blow your mind more than you can imagine. Just do any research on it if you want to know the truth. If you don't like the truth, then don't research anything about OR. Just keep making assumptions then
MrLightstudios _"I've seen all the VRs and they are honestly shit."_ - That comment alone shows just how fucking *_INSANE_* technology has gotten. If you showed someone the Oculus a mere 10, 15, 20 years ago...they'd shit their pants. Show it to someone 50 years ago...and they'd probably be unable to process what they were seeing...and would flat-out deny they were awake. But...show it to you, in 2015, and you say "it's shit." Louis CK's bit about how whiny and pedantic everyone has become comes to mind. But...at the same time, you DO have a point. Are you nauseatingly whiny? Absolutely. Are you correct? In a away...yes. What fascinates me is....if you're honest with yourself and think deeply and thoughtfully, I think you'll agree that it's becoming blatantly _obvious_ that 'The Singularity' is indeed very very near. The truth is, _at the rate we're going_, by 2040 we'll have technological inventions that people today would consider physically *_impossible_*. Not just improbable...but *_impossible_*. I find it eerily fascinating that this is truly *_the first time in human history_* where we cannot even _remotely_ imagine what life will be like in a mere 20 years, let alone 40 years. That's *_never_* been the case....ever. Until now. Everything is going to change...religion, politics, economics, art, music, life itself...*_everything_*...in our lifetime. Get ready... Things are about to get a *_LOT_* weirder.
The guy above is right. Things are going to gets so fast paced with technology. "There more we advance, the faster we advance." - me So by 2050 people will be creating new technologies and super computers in there garages. And the advancement of computer specifically will be so fast the computer a year ahead will be 4 times as fast
Good to see Microsoft skipping VR, which will most likely end up as just a fad that will die off in 2-3 years after release. AR has a much more vibrant future, and Hololens looks awesome. And this is just the first iteration of the device. Still in prototype stage.
Imagine horror-type holograms for these! Playing in your own house at night, with lights out. Just walking around and all of a sudden ghosts appear out of nowhere. Scary yet exciting!
If it has the potential to essentially replace the television in your home because you can have a holographic representation of a television of any size in any position follow you or stay static... I can imagine a price tag of well over the 6k joked about. It may come with a hub that you connect your Xbox One and set top box to so that the images from those particular machines can be shown through hololens... I'd pay anything for something like that!! I wouldn't have to worry about the positioning of my 55inch TV, I wouldn't have to worry about having all my consoles and PC connected to it. Just have all of them connected to a hub, I dunno, over there >> and set up my lounge room in a way that doesn't centre around a TV. I could sit anywhere that is in connection reach for the controller to the device and enjoy ANY size screen floating or fixed, curved or flat, 3D or not... ANYWHERE!!! Sign me up and as Fry elegantly put it, TAKE MY MONEY!!!!
And that's my point. The hub could be what the Xbox One and a PS4 and a PC/movies, shows, television box be connected to to stream from. I hope. I hope soo, so badly that is a way it can be done. I've noticed that my Xbox One, PS4 and even the 360 didn't boot up without a monitor to boot to. Often I've turn the system on and not changed to the source channel for awhile, thinking that by the time I switch to it, it'll be ready for me but on switching it started the process. I'm not sure if that is actually a system requirement but it is something I have experienced. Therefore, if that is the case, we will need a "hub" sort of device to enable the systems to boot to initiate the streaming of said device to the Hololens. Now, I know that is not how PC's work... sometimes, if it isn't requiring a command from a keyboard to boot. I just think that would be an amazing way for Microsoft to actually and effectively "take over" the lounge room/whole house. Everyone in the house has one, doing their own thing but also being able to live in the actual world, seeing each other. That is the only flaw I see with VR. It cuts you off from the outside world so it becomes something you use when you want to do the activity the VR does. This Hololens could be something you wear to do almost everything in the home. Man, I am typing way too much. I need to be employed by Microsoft.
imagining a price is bad buisness, this thing will cost what it costs to produce plus whatevver extra hey can squeeze out in a price range set for the largest most penetrable market, you need not only to maximize profit on the item itself, but to ensure as many sales can be made as possible, when your'e talking the difference between millions of buyers the number of units you can sell becomes a multiplicative factor of grand significance, the key is finding a balanced price that can earn the most per uniit, while maintianing maximal market penetration, that's how profits are made my friend, at first it will be more expensive than later, but they will adjust prices to see that market penetration continues on, you'll likely have one yourself sooner than you imagine, remember when touchscreen smartphones first came out? now phone companies are giving them away.
The resolution of the equipment will be the limiting factor. Placing your television on the wall virtually will lower the resolution to about 320X180 since it will be a fraction of everything you'll see. Someday it will be as you say. 5-10 years. (In other words it would have to have a 4K resolution to put up an HD screen. I'm sure the equipment now is less than HD in total.)
Hear that? That's the $ony ponies crying in the distance. They know that they can only dream of having tech anywhere near what us Xbox gamers (true gamers that is) have. You can keep your oculus ripoff $ony we true gamers have holograms and the future!!!
You are on a whole new level of pathetic you fucking loser. This can be bought by everybody not just xbox owners. I have an Xbox and you are just one sad sad person
This hololens has nothing to do with xbox and mocrosoft is making a vr headset to but they started later then sony and they going to rush it and fail it
You guys do realize that this is not for video games at all right? It's AR, Augmented reality, which is the same thing you have on your 3DS, Vita and smartphones. but fancier. Video games are meant to be escapism, and VR headsets like Oculus are good for such thing.
I didn't see why AR can't be used for games and escapism. You don't have to be completely cut off from the world to do so. Not only that, games can be just as social as anything else. Down playing this AR a bit too much. Like saying, Oculus is like the Virtual Boy, but fancier.
I too believe this could have great potential for video games. some games will only be used as a hud display for games like halo ,but as another video was stating some pretty cool ideas like silent hill in your own home with shit popping out every corner.And I didn't think about until now but Pokemon would probably work well for it too just think about it you could be walking down the street and a hologram charzard pops up out of know where and you battle him.Although it may take awhile for acceptance hell Google glasses been trying to get the public to catch on for years but it still hasn't.But if this turns out to be everything that we expect I'm sure it'd be more accepted and not weird going outside with it on.And if you ever seen the movie GAMER it was augmented reality.
Dude, if this works out, then this is the future of technology. Imagine in maybe a decade or so, every student in schools will own one of these, and the teacher ACTUALLY taught, being able to display things to the students like a life size 3d rendering of a roman warrior, or showing the parts of a star that the students could actually WALK AROUND. Id go back to highschool if i could do that 0.0
I love this, but I am also a Playstation Fan also, this has nothing to do with the console war, reading these comments really make me sad. Please have some respect for us Playstation Gamers.
VancouverCraft No I DID. I had a ps4 but it broke, I had the xbox one and it broke, I don't know how to build a pc. Now I think the problems had something to do with my internet but with the time they did work.....it was just....it didn't feel "next gen"
Are you kidding me???? Yugi-Oh, Doom 4, Arc Survival Evolved, Duke Nukem!!!!!!!!! Every good shooter and survival game!!!!!! The infinite is the limit man!
AR will never give the same gaming experience as VR. Basically, i can see AR good at media consumption like watching Netflix while in the bathroom or Skyping with someone while sitting in your car anything that add elements to the real world but you won't get that VR in your face moment. For example, AR will never let you watch basketball on the courtside like VR can!! It's just can't!! So for this reason, AR will never be good for gaming and only good for every day used of things like media, utilities like clock weather..statistics, stocks....or even GPS map showing up while driving. Things that help you in the real world.
Yeah, you're right, but that's because is made for a different purpose. As you said, it's made for the every day tasks, and it seems very impressive in exploiting that particular aspect. Anyway, it could be cool if some day in the future we have access to a product with both possibilities: separately and in blended mode.
Personally, I think AR will beat VR. While it doesn't really have the same gaming applications, it has way more practical uses. VR really only has utility in a very niche market. AR has lots of applications in business as well as entertainment places.
Imagine 3D movies with HoloLens! Being inside of Jurassic Park or Middle Earth....gaming?...Fighting as Shepard in Mass Effect. The possibilities are limitless.
What's being ignored is that these aren't made for gaming at all, it is being intragraded into it but it's created primarily for commercial use, or more so for engineering. When I found out about the hololens I was drawn to it for using it with my aerospace engineering applications.
AR = The Future Less than a decade from now you will see prescription AR glasses and regular ones in everyday life. Side note: whatever happen to the Illumiroom? I was real hyped for that but it seems like it was just forgotten.
*you will see prescription AR glasses and regular ones in everyday life* Wow! One might believe you could *cure* mental disorders with this, as in make people stop seeing too many things. Medical purposes FTW!
CDoomer I use glasses so if I wanted to wear an AR Headset then it would be just like at the theater were I am wearing two pairs of glasses, who wants that on a daily basis?
Jaziel Rivera But what if they will simply be adjusted to your needs, heck you would even choose how to use it. Reading mode ON, far sight mode ON etc. ^.^
Jaziel Rivera I'm sure at some point they will make actual prescription AR glasses dude.... Come on... you are thinking too small. You won't have to wear two pairs of glasses. The AR will be built in (for a substantial fee I'm sure) to the normal glasses you get from your ophthalmologist. :)
mreyes89 i didn't say it was only for videogames. I just said it hasn't had long-term or significant exposure in the gaming industry. It should be great in the future though. However, this will not ever take me out of reality, mostly because this masks our reality in digital imagery. But once again, i'm not hating on it, it should be great.
Every time they are in a video together that guy must be required to interrupt her, I know its an interview but I would love to actually hear from the person that tried it out.
Gabe Newell If the demos shown are of the users genuine experience with this device, then I could currently only think of 5 things which I would like to know before I would think a Battlefield experience would be possible with this device. 1. how much data can it process 2. what the range limit (distance) is for you to see and experience 3. if we were able to hold items and the device read it as a virtual sword/gun/ect 4. if hit detections could be performed (for being hit by a hologram) 5. if conditions could be programmed e.g. life points, death I think if all the conditions above can be met, I'm sure we're all in for a treat when it comes to gaming!
Endless things to do with this Once motions become more fluid ... Silent Hill ... Sword Art ... Force Unleashed ... Virtual Boxing ... real life animus ... Historical Purposes Holographic Cortana (Halo 4 or H2 Aniversary Idk which is hotter) A google earth app and I won't need to go on vacation anymore. Pranking sleeping friends with horror programs by putting it on them. And about Mars, How about pandora? Tatooine? Space? The citadel of mass effect, the courts of kublai khan, and the underwater city of rapture. Wishes are endless.
The holograms are actually REALLY transparent in normal lighting conditions the stuff you see in this video is what you would see if it was almost pitch black.
The reason I like Microsoft better than Apple is because they are super innovative. They keep coming up with new ideas that we don't think are even possible. Apple on the other hand resins their devices along with add features. Although I have to admit that Apple is meant for easier use cause tbh microsoft devices take awhile to get to know everything.
A Chinese man walks into a bar in America late one night and he sees Steven Spielberg. As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushes over to him, and asks for his autograph. Instead, Spielberg gives him a slap and says, "You Chinese people bombed our Pearl Habour, get outta here!" The astonished Chinese man replied, "It was not the Chinese who bombed your Pearl Harbour, it was the Japanese!" "Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese you're all the same," replied Spielberg. In return, the Chinese man gives Spielberg a slap and says, "You sank the Titanic, my forefathers were on that ship." Shocked, Spielberg replies, "It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not me!" The Chinese man, replies, "Iceberg, Spielberg, Carsberg, you're all the same!"
VR headsets with the right robot could completely remove humans from the battlefield. Of course this works both ways. Imagine someone using remote controlled robots to murder large numbers of people with no way to be harmed, traced or held accountable.
The days for Sceens got an end at least. You dont need a Screen anymore when you carry it before your eyes and can project it anywhere you wish to, in any size you wish to.
The girl has actually seen the product and trailed it. But the guy likes the sound of his own voice so much he can't stop talking long enough to let her tell us about it. He simply can't shut up and let the person with the knowledge explain the product.
I really love and respect how the name describes what it actually is and does. That, to me, is the hallmark of a true innovation/invention. We don't call toasters by weird brand names, or wheels, fans, computers, etc, because they stand on their own merits, and can survive on their functionality alone. I am so completely sick, so jaded by these manufactured, pretentious, branding campaigns that these companies continually spew forth every year. I think the hololens will actually go quite far, eventually becoming as commonplace as a light-bulb or computer.
I just wasn't convinced by her "enthusiasm" at 0:40 he asked if she was impressed. She pauses before giving her "mmmmm yeah OK why not" response. Then at 7:02 he compares the latency to Kinect. She said it didn't have that 1:1 feeling, where the computer was on par with her actions. He also asked her again "Overall were you Super Impressed ?" and for the 2nd time in the same interview she pauses (as if she wants to say "God No, this thing is a joke") but once again she gives her yeeeeeahhhh right sure whatever response. They should have a tech demo where regular people can try it out and give feedback.
So, is the hologram projected on the visor you are wearing, and how do you see it in the middle of the air? Or, is is projected into your eyeballs directly that is not using the visor as a display screen?
If you deny this has potential and is interesting. Your lying to yourself, and how can you not respect Microsoft for actually taking a chance instead of copying the hype like Sony did.
Not really used this before. Except a 20 second of looking st some holograms. Honestly it didn't impress me as the quality was very poor. But I've got to give 2 days of presentation demonstrating its features and talking it up. Down in London at a free event. Any tips or helpful advise I could use ?
To everyone saying this has nothing to do with consoles... Use your creativity for just a sec. Imagine putting this on in front of the xbox and it display a huge battlefield. The kinect at this point is also tracking your movement. You can literally be the commander in a strategy game. Not enough processing power? The headset has three processors if i remember correctly. Imagine physically placing your base on the couch while the enemy base is across the room in a fort you made. Imagine having power ups the charge after a while that let you physically stomp on the floor making a huge crater. Just use your heads people!!! Microsoft make this work!
One of my questions is will it be able to produce solid pictures that when people walk in front of you will you see them through the picture/hologram?? Or another example, if your playing minecraft can you just put you hand in the middle of a mountain and still see it or will be as if it's behind a wall?
I am wanting to know if something is pinned to the world somewhere, and you turn your head, does it stay completely still, or does it jerk and snap back?
But when Apple does start getting into AR every Microsoft fanboy will be like, ohh maahh gawwwdd, Apple copied Microsoft!!!! Even though Microsoft basically got this whole Augmented Reality vision from google glass. So really Microsoft copied Google glass in a way, but nobody cares anyway
Like for 100% honesty, no bs. When he asked about responsiveness I expected a bullshit answer, but instead she just gave an honest answer that pleased me so much I'm thinking about buying it.
random question 5:30 where their talking about the Skype calls and where you can pin it. so if you look in a mirror will you see a reflection of the Skype or just urself?
If they make like gloves with feed back this could be great for art. I can just imagine making sculptures and what not and then taking it to a 3d printer. I just don't think using my finger like the guy in the demo making the rocket would feel right. But this has a lot of potential in tons of different areas in our lives. Very cool
I noticed that everytime these companies try to "put people in virtual reality". These never seem to work out. People don't want to have to stand up and move around to use these devices. Look at the Ps Move, or Kinect. Both very amazing pieces of technology but they failed. No one likes to use these.
this is in my opinion one of the most futuristic things i have seen in a while, cant wait to get one, i just hope the price lowers enough for it to be affordable and not too expensive. also i don't think Microsoft will have any trouble selling this, assuming it lives up to how it sounds so far, while i don't think i will be getting one within the first year of release, i really, really want this....
I think the hololens will cost just below a thousand dollars mark, if Microsoft is seriously pushing this technology to the masses. I am exciting about this and cannot wait to buy one.
Eventually, we will come to a point where technology will become so advanced to where we, as the gamer, are actually in the world of our favorite games. By that I mean we will become the main character. Every hit, action and sequence will be felt and experience by us. That is the future of gaming. Virtual reality and augmented reality are the future. I've been waiting for this for so long. It's at it's birth now.
Imagine what this could do for the construction industry. Any industry for matter of fact, but I am a contractor so thats where my mind goes. But medicine, space travel, deep sea exploration, even everyday life. Not to mention what I'm sure the military has been doing with it. And it's supposed to be out in the same time frame as windows 10. I cant wait.
I saw this magazine and it ha this in it!! It was talking about the new ways of computers and how you could do most computer norms!! FYI a picture showed a guy playing minecraft in it lol.
I'm bored out of my ass when I'm sitting in class; I plug my earphones or whatever sound this thing has then put the glassess on and start watching a movie. oh damn that would be epic...
In the end this doesn't effect gaming as much as the oculus but it might if it was added to rts like company of heroes or sins of a solar empire... I live in hope
So happy this has been finally created, people, this is the beginning of the future. Please don't criticize every little thing about this. We are just scratching the surface. Imagine technology by 2030, even 2100. It is just crazy how far we can go. I hope i get to try this my self one day. It is the beginning like i said. Cant imagine what it will be like when im 80 years old, technology i mean, wow lol.
I just read a comment saying Microsoft is beating Sony. These items that will change the future has nothing to do with each other. Morpheus is VR (Virtual Reality) while Hololens is AR (Augmented Reality) I would like to buy both. I am a Sony And Microsoft fan. Before im done let me tell you what is the definition of AR and VR cause people dont understand. Augmented Reality a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. Virtual Reality the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.
Dear director, Please don't make the editors look in the camera when they are having a conversation. The angle at which they have to turn their heads is really unnatural. Either use 2 close up camera's or just let them look at each other.
Why do some feel the need to put down other technologies or other companies because of something new and exciting on the market. VR won`t suck because of AR. They`re both equally cool. The Sony Morpheus VR will be cool. The Occulus rift funded by facebook will be cool. The Microsoft AR hololens looks great as well. Google glass could be big as well over time. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Sony, Facebook, Tesla, etc.. are placing us in the future right now and giving us toys and gadgets we could only dream of, and fanboys of specific companies spew crap on each other. GROW UP PEOPLE! We`re living in the future and its awesome.
I love how Microsoft fan boys are cheering their hearts out in the comment section since Microsoft has finally put out a product better than Sony's similar product for the first time in 10 years xD With that being said, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality are two completely different things so comparing the HoloLens to Morpheus doesn't make much sense. Infact, the Morpheus will probably be more successful gaming wise, as augmented reality is extremely limited at the moment, and creating a fully functional augmented reality game comparable to games created for virtual reality is impossible. Though augmented reality would be very good for mobile games. The could maybe implement higher-end gaming by making it to where you can project any games that you have bought with your Xbox Live account onto maybe a flat surface, or even the air in front of you. Though I don't think it is capable of doing so with it's current specs. But who knows. Can't wait to see what the HoloLens will bring in the future, I might get one myself depending on the price tag and demand for it.
so.. step 1. Microsoft makes new game gimmick akin to the Wii craze, makes it good and playable and popular 2.Make it exclusive to XBox1 3.XBox1 becomes the most revolutionary gaming device of the generation 4. The whole world explodes out of sheer embarrassment
What most people don't understand is the very very very low FOV HoloLens has. It is like looking through a small rectangle an inch in front of your face.
Also holograms are actually REALLY transparent in normal lighting conditions the stuff you see in this video is what you would see if it was almost pitch black.
Why are console war comments still going on here when this has little to do with Xbox? It's just MS making new tech.
Ikr it just stupid.
it is just some stupid fanboys, just it.
A while back during its code names and whatnot it was hinted on a console just like the kinect when it was in its code name days was shown to view and recognize you before it was shown on Xbox
*I commented this on another comment, but I'll post it again here because it is relevant--*
I'm not saying that either console is better, but for the of you saying this has nothing to do with Sony, you are wrong. The gaming applications for this (via integration with Xbox One) are endless. It has much more potential than Project Morpheus ever will. If this pans out, it will have a direct effect on the Xbox ecosystem, thus it will also affect Sony. This is why competition is such a good thing. You think Sony won't begin looking into AR after this? We all benefit. That said, this thing looks fucking awesome. I'm excited for the gaming and real world applications that will come from this.
Carlitos Ramos you don't need to comment things like that, just make some fanboy kiddies appear to start a console war. that will just waste your time..
Oculus rift comes out, loads of companies make rip off copies of it, including Sony, then Microsoft come out with something which is actually an innovative , original idea, I honestly think this is the future , this is amazing, I'm so glad this has come out because I've seen all the VRs and they are honestly shìt, they have crappy games with crappy graphics that are just unimpressive, but this is truly awsome.
I would think that if you truly wanted to argue about that, you need to curb your bias a little bit. Because your bias is blinding you pretty severely. And no, I'm not being a fanboy. I'm being 100% serious. You assume Oculus is a crap company, and therefore don't keep up with them or completely ignore anything oculus. I guess what you don't realize is that Oculus is making headway like you wouldn't believe. BUT, they keep quiet. VERY quiet. But they should be getting their headset out within a year. And it's going to blow your mind more than you can imagine. Just do any research on it if you want to know the truth. If you don't like the truth, then don't research anything about OR. Just keep making assumptions then
MrLightstudios _"I've seen all the VRs and they are honestly shit."_ - That comment alone shows just how fucking *_INSANE_* technology has gotten. If you showed someone the Oculus a mere 10, 15, 20 years ago...they'd shit their pants. Show it to someone 50 years ago...and they'd probably be unable to process what they were seeing...and would flat-out deny they were awake. But...show it to you, in 2015, and you say "it's shit." Louis CK's bit about how whiny and pedantic everyone has become comes to mind. But...at the same time, you DO have a point. Are you nauseatingly whiny? Absolutely. Are you correct? In a away...yes.
What fascinates me is....if you're honest with yourself and think deeply and thoughtfully, I think you'll agree that it's becoming blatantly _obvious_ that 'The Singularity' is indeed very very near. The truth is, _at the rate we're going_, by 2040 we'll have technological inventions that people today would consider physically *_impossible_*. Not just improbable...but *_impossible_*.
I find it eerily fascinating that this is truly *_the first time in human history_* where we cannot even _remotely_ imagine what life will be like in a mere 20 years, let alone 40 years. That's *_never_* been the case....ever. Until now. Everything is going to change...religion, politics, economics, art, music, life itself...*_everything_*...in our lifetime. Get ready... Things are about to get a *_LOT_* weirder.
The guy above is right. Things are going to gets so fast paced with technology. "There more we advance, the faster we advance." - me
So by 2050 people will be creating new technologies and super computers in there garages. And the advancement of computer specifically will be so fast the computer a year ahead will be 4 times as fast
Good to see Microsoft skipping VR, which will most likely end up as just a fad that will die off in 2-3 years after release. AR has a much more vibrant future, and Hololens looks awesome. And this is just the first iteration of the device. Still in prototype stage.
Tim Turner it does , but it's years away from true immersion. Post current gen definitely
True...
This is awesome!!! its like every sci fi movie just came true!!!
George Barry not every though...we are still missing flying cars lol.
Basit Saliuy well there are some cars that transforms into planes.
Imagine horror-type holograms for these! Playing in your own house at night, with lights out. Just walking around and all of a sudden ghosts appear out of nowhere. Scary yet exciting!
guys !!!!!! if nintendo would do the same !! , pokemon battles , with holograms :D !!
Your 3DS already has this AR thing, and it's 3D as well.
this is exactly what i was thinking
Gabe Newell
Not as advance and also not a headset. :P
***** why not devlelop the pokemon game for the holo lens lol ? modded ports? :D so awesome love pokemon
David 87 no those are playing call of duty :P
If it has the potential to essentially replace the television in your home because you can have a holographic representation of a television of any size in any position follow you or stay static... I can imagine a price tag of well over the 6k joked about.
It may come with a hub that you connect your Xbox One and set top box to so that the images from those particular machines can be shown through hololens... I'd pay anything for something like that!! I wouldn't have to worry about the positioning of my 55inch TV, I wouldn't have to worry about having all my consoles and PC connected to it. Just have all of them connected to a hub, I dunno, over there >> and set up my lounge room in a way that doesn't centre around a TV. I could sit anywhere that is in connection reach for the controller to the device and enjoy ANY size screen floating or fixed, curved or flat, 3D or not... ANYWHERE!!!
Sign me up and as Fry elegantly put it, TAKE MY MONEY!!!!
it will properly stream from the xbox
And that's my point. The hub could be what the Xbox One and a PS4 and a PC/movies, shows, television box be connected to to stream from. I hope. I hope soo, so badly that is a way it can be done.
I've noticed that my Xbox One, PS4 and even the 360 didn't boot up without a monitor to boot to. Often I've turn the system on and not changed to the source channel for awhile, thinking that by the time I switch to it, it'll be ready for me but on switching it started the process. I'm not sure if that is actually a system requirement but it is something I have experienced. Therefore, if that is the case, we will need a "hub" sort of device to enable the systems to boot to initiate the streaming of said device to the Hololens. Now, I know that is not how PC's work... sometimes, if it isn't requiring a command from a keyboard to boot.
I just think that would be an amazing way for Microsoft to actually and effectively "take over" the lounge room/whole house. Everyone in the house has one, doing their own thing but also being able to live in the actual world, seeing each other. That is the only flaw I see with VR. It cuts you off from the outside world so it becomes something you use when you want to do the activity the VR does. This Hololens could be something you wear to do almost everything in the home.
Man, I am typing way too much. I need to be employed by Microsoft.
imagining a price is bad buisness, this thing will cost what it costs to produce plus whatevver extra hey can squeeze out in a price range set for the largest most penetrable market, you need not only to maximize profit on the item itself, but to ensure as many sales can be made as possible, when your'e talking the difference between millions of buyers the number of units you can sell becomes a multiplicative factor of grand significance, the key is finding a balanced price that can earn the most per uniit, while maintianing maximal market penetration, that's how profits are made my friend, at first it will be more expensive than later, but they will adjust prices to see that market penetration continues on, you'll likely have one yourself sooner than you imagine, remember when touchscreen smartphones first came out? now phone companies are giving them away.
***** They said that? DAMN!! I am totally buying one asap if that's true. I was expecting to need to save and toil to get one.
The resolution of the equipment will be the limiting factor. Placing your television on the wall virtually will lower the resolution to about 320X180 since it will be a fraction of everything you'll see. Someday it will be as you say. 5-10 years. (In other words it would have to have a 4K resolution to put up an HD screen. I'm sure the equipment now is less than HD in total.)
Hear that? That's the $ony ponies crying in the distance. They know that they can only dream of having tech anywhere near what us Xbox gamers (true gamers that is) have. You can keep your oculus ripoff $ony we true gamers have holograms and the future!!!
This tech goes FAR beyond games you simple minded fool
Jordeus Iii very much agreed
Stfu you dumb $ony savage I don't want to hear it from fools like you
You are on a whole new level of pathetic you fucking loser. This can be bought by everybody not just xbox owners. I have an Xbox and you are just one sad sad person
This hololens has nothing to do with xbox and mocrosoft is making a vr headset to but they started later then sony and they going to rush it and fail it
You guys do realize that this is not for video games at all right? It's AR, Augmented reality, which is the same thing you have on your 3DS, Vita and smartphones. but fancier. Video games are meant to be escapism, and VR headsets like Oculus are good for such thing.
I didn't see why AR can't be used for games and escapism. You don't have to be completely cut off from the world to do so. Not only that, games can be just as social as anything else. Down playing this AR a bit too much. Like saying, Oculus is like the Virtual Boy, but fancier.
I too believe this could have great potential for video games. some games will only be used as a hud display for games like halo ,but as another video was stating some pretty cool ideas like silent hill in your own home with shit popping out every corner.And I didn't think about until now but Pokemon would probably work well for it too just think about it you could be walking down the street and a hologram charzard pops up out of know where and you battle him.Although it may take awhile for acceptance hell Google glasses been trying to get the public to catch on for years but it still hasn't.But if this turns out to be everything that we expect I'm sure it'd be more accepted and not weird going outside with it on.And if you ever seen the movie GAMER it was augmented reality.
it could be used for gaming. I would like to make a virtual obstacle course on flat land but I would jump over things that are not even there.
Just make Half Life 3 man. That's all that matters.
Flash Trance Yeah, back in the kitchen Gabe, cook us up some LFD3 and HL3!
Dude, if this works out, then this is the future of technology. Imagine in maybe a decade or so, every student in schools will own one of these, and the teacher ACTUALLY taught, being able to display things to the students like a life size 3d rendering of a roman warrior, or showing the parts of a star that the students could actually WALK AROUND. Id go back to highschool if i could do that 0.0
4:07 Watch his face after he says "Yeah, we probably won't live long enough for that. Sudden mortality crisis.
I love this, but I am also a Playstation Fan also, this has nothing to do with the console war, reading these comments really make me sad. Please have some respect for us Playstation Gamers.
Im not saying anything about playstation im not that type of a guy, but actually in the future we might see it linked with the xbox on various ways
The ps4 and xbox one both suck tbh. I would say "PC MASTER RACE!" But damn if I could actually build one......they are damn complicated to me.
Krazypenguingaming10 So you have none of the above...
VancouverCraft No I DID. I had a ps4 but it broke, I had the xbox one and it broke, I don't know how to build a pc. Now I think the problems had something to do with my internet but with the time they did work.....it was just....it didn't feel "next gen"
woaw... sounds like you've been pretey unlucky there :b.. got an xbox one for about half an year and nothing has happened
dudes kind rude ,
learn how to host properly and let your guest talk.
Try not to cut her off so much ,
I felt embarrassed for you
PC and Xbox unites. Now lets bash Sony
_Minecraft_ in your living room? Back in my day we called that Legos…
POKEMON BATTLES WITH THIS PLEASE
Pokemon GO, the game.
Yes the main reason why I came here XD
Are you kidding me???? Yugi-Oh, Doom 4, Arc Survival Evolved, Duke Nukem!!!!!!!!! Every good shooter and survival game!!!!!! The infinite is the limit man!
AR will never give the same gaming experience as VR. Basically, i can see AR good at media consumption like watching Netflix while in the bathroom or Skyping with someone while sitting in your car anything that add elements to the real world but you won't get that VR in your face moment. For example, AR will never let you watch basketball on the courtside like VR can!! It's just can't!! So for this reason, AR will never be good for gaming and only good for every day used of things like media, utilities like clock weather..statistics, stocks....or even GPS map showing up while driving. Things that help you in the real world.
I think it will have good smaller features for gaming such as mini maps and HUDs being displayed thorugh the AR visor rather than on screen
Just using AR as a portable big screen is good for gaming.
Yeah, you're right, but that's because is made for a different purpose. As you said, it's made for the every day tasks, and it seems very impressive in exploiting that particular aspect. Anyway, it could be cool if some day in the future we have access to a product with both possibilities: separately and in blended mode.
Personally, I think AR will beat VR. While it doesn't really have the same gaming applications, it has way more practical uses. VR really only has utility in a very niche market. AR has lots of applications in business as well as entertainment places.
I would wear these all day and have it make my life a video game with a hud
10/10 made by Microsoft ~IGN
I think it was for Pokemon ORAS because the Hoenn region has a LOT of water lol but it fits well tbh
Imagine 3D movies with HoloLens! Being inside of Jurassic Park or Middle Earth....gaming?...Fighting as Shepard in Mass Effect. The possibilities are limitless.
This would be the future of RTS/Strategy games
What's being ignored is that these aren't made for gaming at all, it is being intragraded into it but it's created primarily for commercial use, or more so for engineering. When I found out about the hololens I was drawn to it for using it with my aerospace engineering applications.
AR = The Future
Less than a decade from now you will see prescription AR glasses and regular ones in everyday life.
Side note: whatever happen to the Illumiroom? I was real hyped for that but it seems like it was just forgotten.
U basically said wut just happen to the computer
*you will see prescription AR glasses and regular ones in everyday life* Wow! One might believe you could *cure* mental disorders with this, as in make people stop seeing too many things. Medical purposes FTW!
CDoomer I use glasses so if I wanted to wear an AR Headset then it would be just like at the theater were I am wearing two pairs of glasses, who wants that on a daily basis?
Jaziel Rivera But what if they will simply be adjusted to your needs, heck you would even choose how to use it. Reading mode ON, far sight mode ON etc. ^.^
Jaziel Rivera I'm sure at some point they will make actual prescription AR glasses dude.... Come on... you are thinking too small. You won't have to wear two pairs of glasses. The AR will be built in (for a substantial fee I'm sure) to the normal glasses you get from your ophthalmologist. :)
It's okay.. let's just wait until someone really tests it out.
nasa already uses it, hunderts of devs. used it...
Tim Turner yeah not in videogames
AAdogman999 who says it was suppose to be for video games only?
Plenty of journalists have used it at the Windows 10 event and they have all praised it
mreyes89 i didn't say it was only for videogames. I just said it hasn't had long-term or significant exposure in the gaming industry. It should be great in the future though. However, this will not ever take me out of reality, mostly because this masks our reality in digital imagery. But once again, i'm not hating on it, it should be great.
12/10 - IGN
-"BREATHTAKING TECHNOLOGY"
Once the price has been revealed, the excitement will go down.
By tributing my 2 monster cards i summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
Can you imagine google maps with this? Just displaying a 3d representation like you do on your computer... that would be sweet!
So in other words: 10/10 IGN?
+hal *11/10
When they preformed the Hololens to the audience, it looked like something my 3DS could do with AR Games. And they're calling it "real holograms".
its ok sword art....we are coming closer and closer...wont be long
Shinibi Tiger Thats VR, this is AR.
Every time they are in a video together that guy must be required to interrupt her, I know its an interview but I would love to actually hear from the person that tried it out.
Imagine playing Battlefield with this thing!
You can't, it's AR, not VR. It'd make a virtual screen on your wall, and then you play BF as you normally do.
D:
But that would be still cool because only tou can see what you play
Gabe Newell Still better than VR to me.
Gabe Newell If the demos shown are of the users genuine experience with this device, then I could currently only think of 5 things which I would like to know before I would think a Battlefield experience would be possible with this device.
1. how much data can it process
2. what the range limit (distance) is for you to see and experience
3. if we were able to hold items and the device read it as a virtual sword/gun/ect
4. if hit detections could be performed (for being hit by a hologram)
5. if conditions could be programmed e.g. life points, death
I think if all the conditions above can be met, I'm sure we're all in for a treat when it comes to gaming!
Endless things to do with this
Once motions become more fluid
... Silent Hill
... Sword Art
... Force Unleashed
... Virtual Boxing
... real life animus
... Historical Purposes
Holographic Cortana (Halo 4 or H2 Aniversary Idk which is hotter)
A google earth app and I won't need to go on vacation anymore.
Pranking sleeping friends with horror programs by putting it on them.
And about Mars, How about pandora? Tatooine? Space? The citadel of mass effect, the courts of kublai khan, and the underwater city of rapture.
Wishes are endless.
I'm gonna type on my table if i have that thing!
You look familiar. Have I seen you before?
The holograms are actually REALLY transparent in normal lighting conditions the stuff you see in this video is what you would see if it was almost pitch black.
well we know the Sony fanboys or trolls disliked the video
The reason I like Microsoft better than Apple is because they are super innovative. They keep coming up with new ideas that we don't think are even possible. Apple on the other hand resins their devices along with add features. Although I have to admit that Apple is meant for easier use cause tbh microsoft devices take awhile to get to know everything.
A Chinese man walks into a bar in America late one night and he sees Steven Spielberg. As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushes over to him, and asks for his autograph. Instead, Spielberg gives him a slap and says, "You Chinese people bombed our Pearl Habour, get outta here!"
The astonished Chinese man replied, "It was not the Chinese who bombed your Pearl Harbour, it was the Japanese!" "Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese you're all the same," replied Spielberg.
In return, the Chinese man gives Spielberg a slap and says, "You sank the Titanic, my forefathers were on that ship." Shocked, Spielberg replies, "It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not me!"
The Chinese man, replies, "Iceberg, Spielberg, Carsberg, you're all the same!"
Wow...so funny...im laughing soo much...totally...
worst joke ever
At least you tried
You gotta have a shite sense of humor to find that funny
I thought... those were Japanese.. lol
I feel like this is going to be extremely helpful for non-gaming environments.
As a Sony and PlayStation fan (I said FAN,not "Fanboy")...I must say that the Hololens look amazing!
Honestly, I can see so many military applications for this. Which means the military has probably been using it for years. Equally cool and scary.
VR headsets with the right robot could completely remove humans from the battlefield. Of course this works both ways. Imagine someone using remote controlled robots to murder large numbers of people with no way to be harmed, traced or held accountable.
+BlazerManiacNumber96 If implemented correctly this could really change Military operational planning, education , there's so m=any possibly
The days for Sceens got an end at least. You dont need a Screen anymore when you carry it before your eyes and can project it anywhere you wish to, in any size you wish to.
I remember when IGN said this about Project Netal, then Kinect 2. Look how they turnt out tho...
Oculus Rift comes out, the pony's "bu bu we are getting vr too" microsoft "lets just do something different"
This brings the virtual world to your reality...VR takes you to a different reality.
Dude, stop interrupting her every five seconds! She's the one who tried it so let her speak.
I never even thought about Sony/Microsoft I just saw the next generation of computing. This looks phenomenal
The girl has actually seen the product and trailed it. But the guy likes the sound of his own voice so much he can't stop talking long enough to let her tell us about it. He simply can't shut up and let the person with the knowledge explain the product.
I really love and respect how the name describes what it actually is and does. That, to me, is the hallmark of a true innovation/invention. We don't call toasters by weird brand names, or wheels, fans, computers, etc, because they stand on their own merits, and can survive on their functionality alone.
I am so completely sick, so jaded by these manufactured, pretentious, branding campaigns that these companies continually spew forth every year. I think the hololens will actually go quite far, eventually becoming as commonplace as a light-bulb or computer.
I just wasn't convinced by her "enthusiasm" at 0:40 he asked if she was impressed. She pauses before giving her "mmmmm yeah OK why not" response.
Then at 7:02 he compares the latency to Kinect. She said it didn't have that 1:1 feeling, where the computer was on par with her actions. He also asked her again "Overall were you Super Impressed ?" and for the 2nd time in the same interview she pauses (as if she wants to say "God No, this thing is a joke") but once again she gives her yeeeeeahhhh right sure whatever response. They should have a tech demo where regular people can try it out and give feedback.
Coming from a PS fan, this is pretty cool. I can't wait to see what Microsoft will do with this! #LetsAllBeFriends
So, is the hologram projected on the visor you are wearing, and how do you see it in the middle of the air? Or, is is projected into your eyeballs directly that is not using the visor as a display screen?
I'm so happy. Microsoft has, after quite a while, pulled ahead of the curb and surprised everyone.
If you deny this has potential and is interesting. Your lying to yourself, and how can you not respect Microsoft for actually taking a chance instead of copying the hype like Sony did.
Microsoft has the best slogan that is so true to their mission. "Empowering everyone"
Not really used this before. Except a 20 second of looking st some holograms. Honestly it didn't impress me as the quality was very poor. But I've got to give 2 days of presentation demonstrating its features and talking it up. Down in London at a free event. Any tips or helpful advise I could use ?
To everyone saying this has nothing to do with consoles... Use your creativity for just a sec. Imagine putting this on in front of the xbox and it display a huge battlefield. The kinect at this point is also tracking your movement. You can literally be the commander in a strategy game. Not enough processing power? The headset has three processors if i remember correctly. Imagine physically placing your base on the couch while the enemy base is across the room in a fort you made. Imagine having power ups the charge after a while that let you physically stomp on the floor making a huge crater. Just use your heads people!!! Microsoft make this work!
One of my questions is will it be able to produce solid pictures that when people walk in front of you will you see them through the picture/hologram?? Or another example, if your playing minecraft can you just put you hand in the middle of a mountain and still see it or will be as if it's behind a wall?
I am wanting to know if something is pinned to the world somewhere, and you turn your head, does it stay completely still, or does it jerk and snap back?
Almost all comments say how Microsoft is beating Sony but who cares the more important fact is Microsoft has holographs and apple doesn't.
But when Apple does start getting into AR every Microsoft fanboy will be like, ohh maahh gawwwdd, Apple copied Microsoft!!!! Even though Microsoft basically got this whole Augmented Reality vision from google glass. So really Microsoft copied Google glass in a way, but nobody cares anyway
Imagine programming on this thing!
I bet sony,apple & every other company is in the process of developing something to compete with this,never fails lol
Like for 100% honesty, no bs. When he asked about responsiveness I expected a bullshit answer, but instead she just gave an honest answer that pleased me so much I'm thinking about buying it.
random question 5:30 where their talking about the Skype calls and where you can pin it. so if you look in a mirror will you see a reflection of the Skype or just urself?
interesting question. I don't see why they couldn't project a fake reflection.
yeah as soon as I seen that I was thinking hmm. this could get interesting
What occurred to you IGN, how much Microsoft has given you, to say these nice things?
Remember the hype for project natal in 2009? how did that work out for microshaft?
They didn't even really show anything, just moving around a crappy looking toolbox with Kinect tech. That's some real innovation right there /s
If they make like gloves with feed back this could be great for art. I can just imagine making sculptures and what not and then taking it to a 3d printer.
I just don't think using my finger like the guy in the demo making the rocket would feel right. But this has a lot of potential in tons of different areas in our lives. Very cool
I noticed that everytime these companies try to "put people in virtual reality". These never seem to work out. People don't want to have to stand up and move around to use these devices. Look at the Ps Move, or Kinect. Both very amazing pieces of technology but they failed. No one likes to use these.
Nah, it's just that both the PS move and the kinect are shit.
I mean they're not fun.. but they're amazing pieces of technology that work very well and were thought to change the world but didn't 3MuchAnimu5Me
Will _ true
Why are the blocks of the Super Mario ground on the wall in the background all sideways?
Well, time to wait for an iteration or two to see how much they will increase the FoV.
im not ready for this..
They finally made ARI from Heavy rain a reality! 3 years late but better than nothing :D
this is in my opinion one of the most futuristic things i have seen in a while, cant wait to get one, i just hope the price lowers enough for it to be affordable and not too expensive.
also i don't think Microsoft will have any trouble selling this, assuming it lives up to how it sounds so far, while i don't think i will be getting one within the first year of release, i really, really want this....
De-Ja-Vu...
Woke up to a dream about microsoft holo lens showing a trip through mars a few years ago.
I think the hololens will cost just below a thousand dollars mark, if Microsoft is seriously pushing this technology to the masses. I am exciting about this and cannot wait to buy one.
The way she's talking about it, I want it to not fail like Kinect. It sounds awesome
This is got to be the BEST microsoft product out there
Eventually, we will come to a point where technology will become so advanced to where we, as the gamer, are actually in the world of our favorite games. By that I mean we will become the main character. Every hit, action and sequence will be felt and experience by us. That is the future of gaming. Virtual reality and augmented reality are the future. I've been waiting for this for so long. It's at it's birth now.
Imagine what this could do for the construction industry. Any industry for matter of fact, but I am a contractor so thats where my mind goes. But medicine, space travel, deep sea exploration, even everyday life. Not to mention what I'm sure the military has been doing with it. And it's supposed to be out in the same time frame as windows 10. I cant wait.
I saw this magazine and it ha this in it!!
It was talking about the new ways of computers and how you could do most computer norms!!
FYI a picture showed a guy playing minecraft in it lol.
I'm bored out of my ass when I'm sitting in class; I plug my earphones or whatever sound this thing has then put the glassess on and start watching a movie. oh damn that would be epic...
Damn. Also, no more cinemas!
Resolution would only mean size with this thing.
I really want the second iteration of the device. Bleeding edge will definitely have some growing pains :P
In the end this doesn't effect gaming as much as the oculus but it might if it was added to rts like company of heroes or sins of a solar empire... I live in hope
So happy this has been finally created, people, this is the beginning of the future. Please don't criticize every little thing about this. We are just scratching the surface. Imagine technology by 2030, even 2100. It is just crazy how far we can go. I hope i get to try this my self one day. It is the beginning like i said. Cant imagine what it will be like when im 80 years old, technology i mean, wow lol.
Is it bad that I'm scared of Alaina's dead stare at the beginning?
Mars was great experience at KENNEDY Space center but I have not seen any augmentation reality
There are totally gonna be custom ones that are designed to look like a Master Chief Helmet or an Iron Man helmet.
What we should learn from kinect is that technology cannot effectively do motion controls. So this will be another kinect
Interviewer interrupts with dumb comments constantly.
i think you should be able to have a background around you, like a forest to comfort you
Just imagen you can turn super saiyan scream while the house is shaking that would be epic
I just read a comment saying Microsoft is beating Sony. These items that will change the future has nothing to do with each other. Morpheus is VR (Virtual Reality) while Hololens is AR (Augmented Reality) I would like to buy both. I am a Sony And Microsoft fan. Before im done let me tell you what is the definition of AR and VR cause people dont understand. Augmented Reality a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. Virtual Reality the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.
Dear director,
Please don't make the editors look in the camera when they are having a conversation. The angle at which they have to turn their heads is really unnatural. Either use 2 close up camera's or just let them look at each other.
I kinda expected something like this to appear after they got the kinect to work. Guess they're jumping the gun.
Why do some feel the need to put down other technologies or other companies because of something new and exciting on the market. VR won`t suck because of AR. They`re both equally cool. The Sony Morpheus VR will be cool. The Occulus rift funded by facebook will be cool. The Microsoft AR hololens looks great as well. Google glass could be big as well over time. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Sony, Facebook, Tesla, etc.. are placing us in the future right now and giving us toys and gadgets we could only dream of, and fanboys of specific companies spew crap on each other. GROW UP PEOPLE! We`re living in the future and its awesome.
I love how Microsoft fan boys are cheering their hearts out in the comment section since Microsoft has finally put out a product better than Sony's similar product for the first time in 10 years xD
With that being said, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality are two completely different things so comparing the HoloLens to Morpheus doesn't make much sense. Infact, the Morpheus will probably be more successful gaming wise, as augmented reality is extremely limited at the moment, and creating a fully functional augmented reality game comparable to games created for virtual reality is impossible.
Though augmented reality would be very good for mobile games.
The could maybe implement higher-end gaming by making it to where you can project any games that you have bought with your Xbox Live account onto maybe a flat surface, or even the air in front of you. Though I don't think it is capable of doing so with it's current specs. But who knows.
Can't wait to see what the HoloLens will bring in the future, I might get one myself depending on the price tag and demand for it.
Managing Editor, Official Xbox Magazine Future US ... that was her old job. So great to see a neutral review of the hardware.
so..
step 1. Microsoft makes new game gimmick akin to the Wii craze, makes it good and playable and popular
2.Make it exclusive to XBox1
3.XBox1 becomes the most revolutionary gaming device of the generation
4. The whole world explodes out of sheer embarrassment
What most people don't understand is the very very very low FOV HoloLens has. It is like looking through a small rectangle an inch in front of your face.
Also holograms are actually REALLY transparent in normal lighting conditions the stuff you see in this video is what you would see if it was almost pitch black.