The main gist of the article is the last paragraph;
"But Oculus, Microsoft, Google and others believe in a different, potentially more natural way to interact with our technology. These companies and the hardware they're creating imagine a world where hand gestures, 3D images and images superimposed on reality are the next-generation tools for productivity, communication and everything else we use gadgets and the Internet for."
MS knows it lost the war on the mobile space (ie: smartphones). The HoloLens is about them trying to lead and take charge of the next generation of computing.
For me, the whole wearables craze is where I get off. I have quite enough computing stuff with a Mac, iPhone and iPad. I don't want to become a cyborg pathetically attached to a glaring screen on my wrist that looks like an ugly black blob to others most of the time with its screen off.
I'm looking forward to becoming a cyborg. Having my brain plugged in to the Internet, and being able to query the problem I'm working on against the body of human knowledge, would be a tremendous help.
You can kind of do that with Google already, but something more integrated with out thought processes would be better. So instead of having to stop thinking, query, and start thinking again, it would just be seamless.
I'm looking forward to becoming a cyborg. Having my brain plugged in to the Internet, and being able to query the problem I'm working on against the body of human knowledge, would be a tremendous help.
You can kind of do that with Google already, but something more integrated with out thought processes would be better. So instead of having to stop thinking, query, and start thinking again, it would just be seamless.
I can see a chip in your brain in the near future.
Why eat Chinese food with chopsticks when you could have nutrition pumped directly into your stomach with a feeding tube?
Well Apple's next major product is Apple Watch, maybe you've heard of it?
It too was also not finished when it was first shown ~4 months ago. However, it specified an entry level price point and gave a ballpark ~6 mo arrival date, and didn't advertise impossible, impractical and downright silly pie in the sky concepts, didn't name it itself something with a buzzword that is simply inaccurate ("flying drone watch"), and didn't claim credit for a range of technologies that others had released two years earlier.
Apple actually acknowledged (both for Watch and for Apple Pay) that others had tried to do things in the space and outlined why they'd failed.
Microsoft is floating a copy of a demo that bears no correlation to the experimental prototype they had to show.
Tellingly, The Verge, Engadet, Wired & CNET all wrote this up like the PR lapdog they are, as if it were some wildly new thing that actually does create holograms and could possibly do the absurd things portrayed in the video. You should be complaining there, not that AI is pointing out the truth.
I think this would be great to use in a Laser Tag setting with a Halo theme since Microsoft owns Halo. The augmented reality would create and overlay either Covenant or Spartan imagery on the players. Or something like battle chess like that holographic chess like game the played in Star Wars. I can see this as being great for games and educational learning. But not necessarily for everyday use.
I just think it requires more compute power than the headset can accomplish on its own.
These would be great in a museum as well. Imagine seeing a dinosaur skeleton and then have it become a solid live looking dinosaur that gets into a battle with another dinosaur, like T. Rex vs Triceratops all right in front of me.
Here is another idea the teacher writes a math equation on the white board and the hololens instantly graphs the equation.
No of course not Microcrap could have made a fortune supplying Office to Microcraps's mobile solutions ... Oh wait a minute ....
How's the weather in Redmond's today by the way?
They could have, but they didn't. Instead, they shipped many new computers with Office for free, offered it as a free download for college students, they made Office Online free. There are many instances in which Microsoft avoided charging for their software, so clearly money is not the issue. (also I suggest you cease using the term "MicroCrap". It's just childish)
And it's currently 57 and partly cloudy in Redmond
They could have, but they didn't. Instead, they shipped many new computers with Office for free, offered it as a free download for college students, they made Office Online free. There are many instances in which Microsoft avoided charging for their software, so clearly money is not the issue. (also I suggest you cease using the term "MicroCrap". It's just childish)
And it's currently 57 and partly cloudy in Redmond
And you think Microcrap would be offering anything 'for free' if it were not for getting floor wiped by Apple? Let's check history ... mmmm .... nope.
I've used the term Microcrap since they you lot stole Mac OS and Mac Office, that's my polite term. Go back to a Microcrap blog and be happy.
I can see a chip in your brain in the near future.
Why eat Chinese food with chopsticks when you could have nutrition pumped directly into your stomach with a feeding tube?
That's not a very good analogy. There's pleasure in eating food, but unless you really like Google's web interface, there's not much pleasure in using that vs a more direct alternative.
But right ... The Zune 2.0 did well, and the Slate and the Surface ... Oh wait a minute ...
The Zune HD was actually quite good, and received very positive reviews. But by that time Apple had already monopolized the market with the iPod Touch, so it didn't matter
I'm not gonna argue with you on the Slate. I think everyone can agree it was conclusively a flop
And the Surface 2 actual landed a 4.7 on Engadget, compared to the iPad Air's 4.6. Not a huge difference, but hey, it's there
I've been following this blog for quite some time, left a few comments. This is one of your worst articles and you should fire the author.
I've used many Apple products in the past, I actually have 3 MacBooks at home, etc. After the Windows event I installed Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro 8,3 and I like it more than I like OS X and especially Yosemite.
To the author: Well, if you wanted to provoce a reaction, you succeeded with it. But provocation is something that a terrorist video on YouTube can do too. You provoced me to unsubscribe to this site and never visit it again. Bashing against Microsoft, a company that has pulled Apple out of their financial crisis in '97 and is building nice products ever since in an unreflected and completely unprofessional way is not accepatble.
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'Nuff said.
What movie is this? Low budget "Evil Dorks from Space"?
How embarrassing. I bet these guys went out and got drunk after this and tried to forget what MS Marketing told them to do.
LOL.
True, but that was 3 months ago, and I know they're moving units because Best Buy was out of stock when my wife went to get one.
The Surface Pro 3 have been increasing, no doubt. The concept behind that device does resonate with many consumers.
What movie is this? Low budget "Evil Dorks from Space"?
How embarrassing. I bet these guys went out and got drunk after this and tried to forget what MS Marketing told them to do.
LOL.
I dunno. It looks to me like they're having a lot of fun. And personally I'd rather have fun than look cool
Cnet has an decent on what the Hololens is and how it works;
http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-hololens-explained-how-it-works-and-why-its-different/
The main gist of the article is the last paragraph;
"But Oculus, Microsoft, Google and others believe in a different, potentially more natural way to interact with our technology. These companies and the hardware they're creating imagine a world where hand gestures, 3D images and images superimposed on reality are the next-generation tools for productivity, communication and everything else we use gadgets and the Internet for."
MS knows it lost the war on the mobile space (ie: smartphones). The HoloLens is about them trying to lead and take charge of the next generation of computing.
I dunno. It looks to me like they're having a lot of fun. And personally I'd rather have fun than look cool
Assuming over time that this device gets smaller / thinner, then you can have fun and look cool.
For me, the whole wearables craze is where I get off. I have quite enough computing stuff with a Mac, iPhone and iPad. I don't want to become a cyborg pathetically attached to a glaring screen on my wrist that looks like an ugly black blob to others most of the time with its screen off.
I'm looking forward to becoming a cyborg. Having my brain plugged in to the Internet, and being able to query the problem I'm working on against the body of human knowledge, would be a tremendous help.
You can kind of do that with Google already, but something more integrated with out thought processes would be better. So instead of having to stop thinking, query, and start thinking again, it would just be seamless.
You can kind of do that with Google already, but something more integrated with out thought processes would be better. So instead of having to stop thinking, query, and start thinking again, it would just be seamless.
I can see a chip in your brain in the near future.
Why eat Chinese food with chopsticks when you could have nutrition pumped directly into your stomach with a feeding tube?
That's the truth!
No of course not Microcrap could have made a fortune supplying Office to Microcraps's mobile solutions ... Oh wait a minute ....
How's the weather in Redmond today by the way?
I think this would be great to use in a Laser Tag setting with a Halo theme since Microsoft owns Halo. The augmented reality would create and overlay either Covenant or Spartan imagery on the players. Or something like battle chess like that holographic chess like game the played in Star Wars. I can see this as being great for games and educational learning. But not necessarily for everyday use.
I just think it requires more compute power than the headset can accomplish on its own.
These would be great in a museum as well. Imagine seeing a dinosaur skeleton and then have it become a solid live looking dinosaur that gets into a battle with another dinosaur, like T. Rex vs Triceratops all right in front of me.
Here is another idea the teacher writes a math equation on the white board and the hololens instantly graphs the equation.
I can't wait for these ideas to become reality.
Assuming over time that this device gets smaller / thinner, then you can have fun and look cool.
True. I'm expecting that we'll have to wait for a 2.0 release before it really grabs consumers, like many of Microsoft's products
Reminds me of the Microcrap funeral for the iPhone sketch, maybe the same actors?
There is no accounting for taste.
But right ... The Zune 2.0 did well, and the Slate and the Surface ... Oh wait a minute ...
No of course not Microcrap could have made a fortune supplying Office to Microcraps's mobile solutions ... Oh wait a minute ....
How's the weather in Redmond's today by the way?
They could have, but they didn't. Instead, they shipped many new computers with Office for free, offered it as a free download for college students, they made Office Online free. There are many instances in which Microsoft avoided charging for their software, so clearly money is not the issue. (also I suggest you cease using the term "MicroCrap". It's just childish)
And it's currently 57 and partly cloudy in Redmond
And you think Microcrap would be offering anything 'for free' if it were not for getting floor wiped by Apple? Let's check history ... mmmm .... nope.
I've used the term Microcrap since
theyyou lot stole Mac OS and Mac Office, that's my polite term. Go back to a Microcrap blog and be happy.COMING SOON FROM MICROSOFT!
I can see a chip in your brain in the near future.
Why eat Chinese food with chopsticks when you could have nutrition pumped directly into your stomach with a feeding tube?
That's not a very good analogy. There's pleasure in eating food, but unless you really like Google's web interface, there's not much pleasure in using that vs a more direct alternative.
Reminds me of the Microcrap funeral for the iPhone sketch, maybe the same actors?
Those are Microsoft's Joe Belfiore, Alex Kipman and Terry Myerson. Hardly actors
There is no accounting for taste.
But right ... The Zune 2.0 did well, and the Slate and the Surface ... Oh wait a minute ...
The Zune HD was actually quite good, and received very positive reviews. But by that time Apple had already monopolized the market with the iPod Touch, so it didn't matter
I'm not gonna argue with you on the Slate. I think everyone can agree it was conclusively a flop
And the Surface 2 actual landed a 4.7 on Engadget, compared to the iPad Air's 4.6. Not a huge difference, but hey, it's there
I've used many Apple products in the past, I actually have 3 MacBooks at home, etc. After the Windows event I installed Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro 8,3 and I like it more than I like OS X and especially Yosemite.
To the author: Well, if you wanted to provoce a reaction, you succeeded with it. But provocation is something that a terrorist video on YouTube can do too. You provoced me to unsubscribe to this site and never visit it again. Bashing against Microsoft, a company that has pulled Apple out of their financial crisis in '97 and is building nice products ever since in an unreflected and completely unprofessional way is not accepatble.