Comments on: Is Microsoft HoloLens the Future of Computing?

By: accountoti

accountoti — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:31:00 +0000

Digital glasses have long been considered a futuristic object, unrealistic, but now that dream is becoming a reality, and Microsoft has taken this next step in presenting his glasses augmented reality, remains a knowledge if these glasses will conquer the public.

By: christianh

christianh — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:23:00 +0000

You read by 24″ MONITOR… Modern sucks… I have THREE 1080p+ monitors… Modern SUCKS…

My desktop GPU can do real 3D, but I get phone graphics…

NOT…

By: MotorMouth

MotorMouth — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:20:00 +0000

Sorry, I don’t get you. What has Visual Studio got to do with anything?

By: MotorMouth

MotorMouth — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:19:00 +0000

“The touchscreen was not merely a cool gimmick, but a fundamental change in the way people interacted with their devices. Gone was the distance, or the need for mechanical proxies. Users could now directly manipulate the digital environment by touching it, and interacting with it in a way so intimate that it could arguably be called “magical”.” Hardly. I still don’t know anyone who’d rather type on a touchscreen than a computer keyboard, do you? And many touch gestures feel extremely awkward, forced even, where the mechanical equivalent (with a mouse), feels more natural and, therefore, less removed.

“But should we willingly lie to our senses until they are confused what is actual, and what is virtual?” Haven’t we been doing that since the first movies, or even further back?
OK, so we can see that the rhetoric in this article is a bit poor but the initial question is still interesting. I believe the answer to it is a resounding “yes, HoloLens is the future of computing.” If it delivers on what we’ve seen so far, there can be no doubt it will revolutionise not just computing, but society as a whole. It’s impact will be much bigger than the iPhone or iPad, which really just hastened processes that were already underway. It’s impact may even rival that of the internet itself when, for the first time, we will be bale to interact with people remotely instead of just interfacing with them. (I’m thinking of the light switch demo, where an electrician in a remote location could draw arrows and circles in a user’s vision to point out parts to someone with no idea about the job they had to do.)

By: christianh

christianh — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:07:00 +0000

How many 24″ monitors with Visual Studio running full screen are on Android devices…?

By: MotorMouth

MotorMouth — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 06:03:00 +0000

What? Are you talking about the Modern UI (formerly Metro)? If that’s ugly and ancient-looking, then how come absolutely everyone is copying it? Seriously, look at Android Lollipop, it couldn’t look more like Metro if it tried.

By: Christopher E. J. Cobb

Christopher E. J. Cobb — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:48:00 +0000

I remember using my friends Sony CD Walkman for the first time and I thought how gimmicky. It will never catch on as a Walkman. The CD player was to bulky but the sound was better than my cassette player Walkman. If my pessimism of that new technology was the accepted reality and we didn’t move music to those stupid plastic disks we might not be listening to MP3s on our watches or cell phones until way later in the game. I believe this is the next UI for computers. The people that think Hololens is a gimmick can just sit on the sidelines holding their mouse and feed it cheese.

By: christianh

christianh — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:29:00 +0000

And what does MS do with the DESKTOP GPU power we have…?

Create the ugliest, most ancient looking UI ever…

By: Holo Names

Holo Names — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:55:00 +0000

HoloLens is the new Game Boy! http://imgur.com/gallery/l2He6WM

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 03:31:00 +0000

Yes, I’m ready for it!

By: David Blau

David Blau — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:28:00 +0000

“But should we willingly lie to our senses until they are confused what is actual, and what is virtual? HoloLens is the first time this has actually been attempted, so there are no past failures to learn from, or debates to draw on.”

Except that everyone’s ability to process these senses into a cohesive worldview, which is just as necessary to cognitive function, has been undergoing precisely this sort of confusion for millenia. First gradually, then with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, much more rapidly.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

I quote: “Baudrillard claims that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience is of a simulation of reality. Moreover, these simulacra are not merely mediations of reality, nor even deceptive mediations of reality; they are not based in a reality nor do they hide a reality, they simply hide that anything like reality is relevant to our current understanding of our lives.”

What I’m saying is, our own perception of reality is already so distorted by the meanings assigned by society to /what/ we perceive, that changing /how/ we perceive it (even by directly altering the senses) will have very little effect on the ultimate cognitive impact. Everything is already “unreal”, as Baudrillard would say — we lie to our senses and ourselves all the time, that ship has already sailed.

By: Nfnc1234

Nfnc1234 — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 03:22:00 +0000

I think the title is spot on. HoloLens brings three things uniquely: Hand gesture recognition(if void, gaze are not counted), 3D mapping, and holographic display. Those are three ingredients that make holographic applications possible (a nice read over here: http://windowscomments.com.