Microsoft HoloLens Blends Holograms With Reality [Video]

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Posted January 22, 2015 at 6:18pm by iClarified

Microsoft has unveiled 'Microsoft HoloLens', the first untethered holographic computer that can blend holograms with reality.

For the first time ever, Microsoft HoloLens brings high-definition holograms to life in your world, where they integrate with your physical places, spaces, and things. Holograms will improve the way you do things every day, and enable you to do things you’ve never done before.

Microsoft HoloLens features see-through holographic high-definition lenses and spatial sound so you can view and hear holograms in the world around you. Complete with advanced sensors, a next-generation system on a chip, and a new Holographic Processing Unit (HPU), Microsoft HoloLens is able to run without any wires while processing terabytes of data from the sensors in real time.

By placing three-dimensional holograms in the world around you, Microsoft HoloLens provides a new view into your reality that can tell what you are looking at and understand what you are saying with your hands and voice.

Microsoft HoloLens intelligently maps the room you’re in, blending holograms with the environment around you. You can pin holograms to physical locations making your room the canvas for your holographic projects and games. Gestures are used to create, shape, and size holograms. Your eyes are used to navigate and explore and your voice can be used to communicate with apps.

One of the most promising use case scenarios for Microsoft HoloLens is for instructional purposes. Using HoloNotes in Skype, friends and colleagues can see you environment from their tablet or PC and draw instructions that appear as holograms in your world.

Support for HoloLens is built into the recently unveiled Windows 10 platform which includes a set of APIs that lets developers create holographic experiences. In Windows 10, holograms are Windows universal apps, and all Windows universal apps can also work as holograms — making it possible to place three-dimensional holograms in the physical world.

Check out some of the possibilities for Microsoft HoloLens in the video below. Please follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS for updates.

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Microsoft HoloLens Blends Holograms With Reality [Video]

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shar - February 2, 2015 at 12:58pm

@Lord Jobs: wow, you responded well to the question that apple has never invented anything since it's release! by bashing the competition :). and for '"Windows 8, best os ever" said no one ever', windows is usually compared against its previous versions, not with mac os which is designed for technically challenged people whose argument usually ends with "we can run windows virtually too, so we can do everything you can, case closed, see how cable mac os is" :)

shar - February 2, 2015 at 12:28pm

it will be suddenly revolutionary if apple released it :) in 5 years :D

gamerscul9870 - February 2, 2015 at 1:33pm

Or Anytime!

Sharp - January 25, 2015 at 7:10am

I want one of these....nice one from MS

shar - February 2, 2015 at 12:44pm

the problem with microsoft is when they innovate something, it is too expensive for private use, I am still waiting for the Microsoft Surface (PixelSense) to become affordable. then companies like apple come in a few years later to release the same and then it gets enough attention.

Tech Jedi - January 24, 2015 at 3:50pm

Baz is a M$ bot!

Tech Jedi - January 24, 2015 at 3:48pm

I love Apple, I love Google, I love Samsung, but I hate Microsoft. Having that said, I love this new device. I can only hope it works as well as the video. I have used past Microsoft products and they have massively disappointed when they don't work or break (Xbox one and Xbox 360). I am rooting for Microsoft on this one.

Ren - January 24, 2015 at 12:02am

Can any Fanboy here tell me what Apple invented since it was founded? NONE!!! They all gimmick innovation.!

gamerscul9870 - January 24, 2015 at 1:01am

Can anyone name any Apple products that ever failed? None even if they weren't founded in which Macintosh was the very start of finding a new generation hint hint!! All trolls wish their precious company had a chance.

Baz - January 24, 2015 at 10:06am

Yes. The Mac III, Macintosh TV, emate 300, Powermac G4 Cube, apple Pippin, Macintosh Portable, Apple Lisa, Newton Message Pad. The Apple TV is an unmitigated disaster. What about Apple Aperture? I have an iMac and it's a beautiful thing - could never go back to Windows (unless this hololens does even half of what it is supposed to do), but you could say MAC OS is a failure. 30 years in the making, with only 10% of the market share to show for it. In anyones eyes that is a failure, even though it's a beautiful operating system. Fact is, Apple didn't just magically spring into existence at the launch of the iPod. There has been many failures AND successes in it's past - just as there has been with Microsoft. That's not trolling - that's having a different opinion to you :)

Ren - January 24, 2015 at 11:36am

This is all generic! None of them from Apple!

gamerscul9870 - January 24, 2015 at 12:11pm

Stop blaming and making deluded excuses. You asked, he answered. Case closed.

gamerscul9870 - January 23, 2015 at 3:52am

How does communicating like that help where the arrow points? It would need multiple cameras the make the exact placement of where it is (just like 3ds max for example).

MUKAI - January 23, 2015 at 3:44am

I can smell lawsuits for headaches and distorted visions lol.

James Cameron - January 23, 2015 at 2:16am

Did anyone of you watch Silicon Valley? This is going to work exactly like the hologram-skype!

gamerscul9870 - January 23, 2015 at 1:48am

that is if you make the model first before actually e peri ending that, except you can't move the model or position it to where it's going to look like it's laying down.

Great! - January 22, 2015 at 11:46pm

Another Google Glass. Probably looks silly when worn, which is why they didn't show you how the device looks.

MOP - January 22, 2015 at 10:30pm

It also comes with a "Blue screen" feature , i mean come on, Google already tried this and it didn't work well for them ... Microsoft is always late

NATO - January 22, 2015 at 9:20pm

Wow! And here we thought the iWatch was the best innovation ever. I really hope they succeed, because I want one of those NOW!! Plus MS really need something unique at this point to strive.

gamerscul9870 - January 22, 2015 at 9:38pm

First off, it's Apple watch, second, it does more than holographic related things, thirdly, it's innovative as a wearable watch. The product here may have one thing that stands out from it, but we don't know if it's actually real or if Microsoft just made a cgi animation here.

Baz - January 24, 2015 at 10:34am

Firstly, it is real. Please look at the the many tech websites who have seen and actually USED the thing, and loved it. And it should be released at the end of the year. Remember, we are talking about two different types of tech here but you really think an AppleWatch is going to be able to do so much more than this HoloLens? I mean really? I assume you are using a Mac right? I am - and I love it so I'm not knocking Apple, but I am also a realist who can see potential. I'll do this from a Mac point of view even though it's Windows 10. The important thing is this - you can pin holograms. In front of you is a blank wall and an empty desk. Put your HoloLens on and it is transformed. You have a 100" virtual TV (with AppleTV) playing Breaking Bad. On the table is a virtual iMac. To the right of it is a iPhone. Because they are pinned in place you can get up, walk around and they stay in place. You use the virtual iMac and the 100" virtual TV is now a 100" monitor. Or you can pin another, more practical size monitor in front of you like a normal PC screen. Over on the wall is a virtual sound system running iTunes. You select your favourite playlist. You need to go to the bathroom. When you get there you had previously pinned Newstand to the wall to your side. You select the latest issue of MacUser magazine which appears as a hologram in front of you to read. After finishing and washing your hands, you go into your kitchen, in the mood to cook something new. Previously you have pinned a virtual cookbook so you click on it and it opens in front of you..... This is very real & will happen. You would have to be the biggest fanboy on the planet with absolutely zero imagination to not recognise the potential of it :)

Diane - January 22, 2015 at 8:42pm

Too good to be true. IF - big "IF" - MS is pulling this off for real and not just using fancy CGI advertisements then this would be a game changer for Microsoft and the overall PC paradigm. On the other hand MS has a long and storied history of announcing vaporware in order to stifle progress and ongoing projects by competitors. Aside from the fact that there aren't holograms (ouch) but rather enhanced virtual reality images, I remain skeptical overall. If anyone had the development budget and experience to pull this off it would be Google or possibly a black project by Apple. MS hasn't been this innovative in 15 years so why now?

MOP - January 22, 2015 at 10:34pm

I can't agree more

Baz - January 24, 2015 at 10:43am

It's very real. It's been announced, has a name, and has been presented to the press who have also used it. People have even checked the Windows 10 code for the necessary API's and guess what, they are there. It's at exactly the same stage as the AppleWatch, but I bet you don't think for one minute that isn't going to be released? Firstly, it may not be a hologram - it is actually better than a hologram. However, if you wish to get into the incorrect naming of things start with Retina (which isn't actually a retina), Macbook Air (which isn't made out of Air). They are good places to start. Don't be a hypocrite. Secondly, though you may not like it, the Kinect was the fastest selling consumer electronic device ever. Not the first one, but the one which did it the best, and Kinect 2.0 was even better (though the people didn't realise it). And before you scoff that it wasn't innovative, remember Apple haven't innovated anything either - they have only made current things better. This HoloLens has the POTENTIAL to be the greatest advancement of technology as we know it in DECADES. It should be applauded for what it is, not dismissed out of hand because it's made by Microsoft. After all, we all know your opinion would be completely different if it had an Apple logo on it....

skylander - January 22, 2015 at 8:28pm

Without Steve Ballmer, Microsoft seems better. They have better approach and some stuffs are cool.

gamerscul9870 - January 22, 2015 at 9:08pm

When balmer left, nothing changed. The new upcoming windows is just 7 and 8 combined. I wouldn't give my hopes up that easy.

dave vangina - January 22, 2015 at 7:34pm

geeee .... blue screen in your eyes soon

Tech Jedi - January 24, 2015 at 3:40pm

Lol blue screen of death. You are right!

Ren - January 22, 2015 at 6:51pm

Make it compatible with anything and I'll buy it.

Andrew - January 22, 2015 at 6:44pm

I want it now!

gamerscul9870 - January 22, 2015 at 6:42pm

It's good but how well is the control, plus is it compatible with anything other than windows? Not hating, just concerned.

Baz - January 24, 2015 at 10:46am

No it's compatible with Windows10 devices only - the PC, Phone and Xbox One (when the OS is launched). However, I have an iMac running Bootcamp. Don't see why it wouldn't work because the hardware is built into the goggles.

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