Windows Holographic

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FillWerrell

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API is baked into Windows 10. I just watched a demo of it- holy shit. They'll be selling HoloLens which will be a wearable computer.

I know it's microsoft, so I can only imagine it has a myriad of problems, but if you can design something from a holograph to a 3d print in minutes, that's going to be bad ass.

Windows 10: The Next Chapter
 


Whole presentation starts right around the 3:28 mark. 3:40 is when the actual demonstration starts
 
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Yeah looks like a winner for once. No wires, transparent display, built in cpu, gpu + sensors.

If the SDK for it is anything like the kinect 2 sdk it should be badass. (Direct access to sensor buffers, easy to use optimized coordinate mapping algos for mapping camera/color/depth spaces, machine learning/training gesture framework, etc)

This was a billionaire's VR headset he trolled CES with this year lmao:
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Multiple holographic monitors with just a keyboard, PC and headset.

Nice, sign me the fuck up.

But then it's Microsoft :)

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Just thinking about it, portable computing becomes, a laptop with just the keyboard and the headset.

Neuromancer is finally real.
 
Between this, VR, and self driving cars (once they get through legislation (fingers crossed)), I'm getting excited for the next five to ten years.
 
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IF this ends up anything like the demo vid all I can say is Fuck Yeah it's about time. Our imaginations have been teased with this shit for decades, should be an intuitive purchase for damn near everyone that can afford it.

Too much entertainment, communication, development and educational potential to even wrap your head around right now...not to mention a whole new world of ad space potential. Could be a game changer...cool shit.
 
acidie said:
But then it's Microsoft :)
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Well let's all just be happy it's not fucking Apple for fucks sake.

I was pretty impressed with how it solves the puke factor some get with pure VR like Oculus by leaving much of the real world still visible.. while at the same time the holographs are as opaque as you want. This will also mean less running into walls and shit, and will mean people can leave it on much longer.. who knows how long.

I hope we can get some decent headphones going with this thing on though because ear buds dont do it for me.

Oh ya also get ready for another layer of privacy to be completely removed from your life.
 
blank_czech said:
Between this, VR, and self driving cars (once they get through legislation (fingers crossed)), I'm getting excited for the next five to ten years.
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This stuff is crazy. I'm excited too, but I think things will move real slow when it comes to actual "public" implementation of some of these things. I feel like there will be so much legislation involved and barriers at all kinds of levels of government and elsewhere...and then all the privacy concerns/"control" concerns a lot of the public has with some of this stuff.

I mean when do you think in the U.S. for example we will actually have widespread/everyday/public self-driving car usage (like full-on auto cars that pick up and drop us off, shuttle us everywhere while we do work or sleep etc)? I can't imagine that happening for a long time, I hope I'm wrong though.
 
WickedJoe said:
Well let's all just be happy it's not fucking Apple for fucks sake.
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. Apple are such niggers. We used to use these motion sensors at work that were an alternative to Microsoft Kinect 1 sensors, then apple bought the company and took them off the market more than a year ago.
 
You know holographic porn combined with the fleslight is going to be awesome.

Also, that microsoft holo doesn't impress. The uses for it are pedestrian. Holographic tech could be used for so many other awesome things like projecting heart rate, outlines and vital signs during operations, projecting a design for a skyscraper, live stats over each players head during live sport, getting a name real time for a tropical fish while you're diving etc.

Microsoft might do tech, but Google beats them hands down on the scope of their goals even if they fail.
 
rusvik said:
Holographic tech could be used for so many other awesome things like projecting heart rate, outlines and vital signs during operations, projecting a design for a skyscraper, live stats over each players head during live sport, getting a name real time for a tropical fish while you're diving etc.
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That's up to developers to make, they're putting together the hardware....and sdk to access it.

You can do building overlays, fish detection, etc today, start crackin Opencv books.

You can use a Haar cascade classifier trainer to be able to detect your fish at any angle.
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4LobbqeKZc[/ame]


There are different algorithms for finding lines, shapes, whatever.
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcm9NpMNi68&list=PLKVVqVfIALlEVajJv5ZuUY8f8zKgt5aou[/ame]
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=anZm9mTxP30&list=PLZSZCbwwKT5NfcP7euEM9pfzjHZY_L_ww[/ame]

But with the depth depth and video sensors built in and so small you have a lot more accuracy than image based tracking.
 
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