At its Windows 10 event in Redmond today, Microsoft announced a - TopicsExpress



          

At its Windows 10 event in Redmond today, Microsoft announced a new component of Windows 10: Windows Holographic, a version of its OS built for an augmented reality headset called the HoloLens. Unlike a virtual reality headset like the Oculus Rift, which create images on an LCD display and entirely immerse you in a virtual environment, Microsofts HoloLens uses transparent lenses to project images into the world around you. Microsoft used a sizzle reel for Windows Holographic to show off potential uses: building Minecraft-style voxel constructions on your living room coffee table, simulating the Martian landscape, or doing industrial design in three dimensions. Then Microsoft brought out a HoloLens headset to demo it live with a new program called HoloStudio. HoloStudio is a bit like a My First 3D Modeling Program. Microsoft demoed the headset by putting together some basic geometric shapes to assemble a simple-looking quadrocopter. The payoff of HoloStudio is that it can output files to a 3D printer to be built in the real world.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:21:56 +0000

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