LordOfChaos
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Not sure if this was known before, but it was stated at todays Build event.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8516613/unity-game-engine-hololens-support
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HoloLens has support for Unity
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Not sure if this was known before, but it was stated at todays Build event.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8516613/unity-game-engine-hololens-support
Leafhopper
Banned
Can we get Konami to make a Yugioh hololens game?
No? I'll buy an Xbox tho- okay...
Great for people who want to use that fairly popular engine though. Hopefully we get good HoloLens games.
I expect shovelware too though sadly. I can't help it with so many shit Unity games on PC.
No? I'll buy an Xbox tho- okay...
Great for people who want to use that fairly popular engine though. Hopefully we get good HoloLens games.
I expect shovelware too though sadly. I can't help it with so many shit Unity games on PC.
DownGrader
Member
I wouldn't call Unity "the world's best engine" (more like "the most flexible one"), but whatever. But, still, I would be more surprised if HoloLens did not support Unity.
lighthouse777
Member
HoloLens has the potential to become an amazing platform for gaming, and Microsoft is announcing a key partnership today to help that happen. It's working with Unity Technologies to bring HoloLens support to the Unity game engine. That means that developers will be able to work with a capable and popular engine while creating games for the upcoming augmented-reality headset. Unity sells itself as more than a game engine and certainly, it can be used for more but it's best known as the engine that sits behind popular titles like Hearthstone, Deus Ex: The Fall, and Hitman Go.
Leafhopper
Banned
What?
Caayn
Member
Can we get Konami to make a Yugioh hololens game?
No? I'll buy an Xbox tho- okay...
Great for people who want to use that fairly popular engine though. Hopefully we get good HoloLens games.
Fortunately, Hololens isn't tethered to anything, so you won't need an Xbone.
Leafhopper
Banned
Wow that's awesome.
Can we get Konami to make a Yugioh hololens game?
No? I'll buy an Xbox tho- okay...
Great for people who want to use that fairly popular engine though. Hopefully we get good HoloLens games.
I expect shovelware too though sadly. I can't help it with so many shit Unity games on PC.
Yu-Gi-Oh is what I was thinking about as well when I hear about HoloLens and its potential for games. ^.^
Would be great indeed.
But wow does HoloLens sound amazing. This is really groundbreaking innovation imho.
I wonder how the tech is under the hood. Seems technically very impressive and by far the most advanced AR glasses. I wonder what the resolution is of the projector and what the battery life is like.
I'd buy Holo Lens just for that feature...please microsoft deliver!!!
well... we do know that there's going to be windows presentations
so who knows what capacity HoloLens will have at E3
Writer isn't a games writer so probably just picked some random titles he's heard of, even if just because of the main series.
It's nice if it actually works like that in the final product. The current impressions of Hololens seem great but the conditions were heavily controlled. Looking forward to hearing more and seeing what developers get on board. Unity is a fine starting point, but not hearing too much else in terms of developers ready to hop aboard, but it's all early days, even though a release is planned at the same time as the new Windows releases iirc.
Seeing as it is E3 and they have Hololens Game Studios...games will be the capacity.
They have a bunch of sessions planned at Build with working units so we should hear some impressions over the next few days.
unless you're using a PC / Xbox and just utilizing streaming across the network
Reallink
Member
It's less an issue of if it actually works like that, and more an issue of what it looks like to the user (i.e. effective perceived resolution, image quality, etc...). I mean if it looks like a GBA screen, it's practically useless.
i guess that will depend of the content you'll play, i think Hololens will be at least 1080p
Poodlestrike
Banned
They slept through the bit with the details, give them a break.
This thing is going to revolutionize my air travel experience.
that is not possible. This stuff is subject to the same latency issues that virtual reality is subject to. You are cooking up a recipe for vomit.
Well yeah it's both issues really - will it end up failing some of the times I attempt it, how accurate would it be etc. Once developers, journalists and others get to use it a lot more publicly, and report their experiences in more depth, it should be a whole lot more interesting. Hopefully they will have some of that happening at Build
Natureboy99
Banned
Getting strong Kinect vibes from this.
demos over-promise the final product.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Verdict from HoloLense back when they announced it in Jan were positive. Today they gave out 100 to developers to try it out.
Its not like they are hiding anything, lets just wait for the impressions now.
foolishoptimist
Member
Is there any information on the resolution of the Hololens display?
Because any virtual screen is going to be lower.
Hololens is cool put don't expect it to look like that video at all. The hololens only has a very small field of view so the virtual screen size would be very limited, especially at the distance the guy is standing from it in the video, it would be pretty useless.
akachan ningen
Member
What's with the click bait title? "Unity" would fit really neatly there instead.
Compsiox
Banned
Exactly what I was thinking. It's preventing anyone from actually checking the thread out.
Honestly, I'd buy a Holo lens just for this.
BleedOrange
Banned
Whoever creates the first tabletop game using little Bluetooth/IoT pucks as the character pedestals or even cards wins ALL the money.
Imagine playing the Mechwarrior tabletop game where you could see the mechs actually fire and take damage. Or imagine playing the Pokemon TCG where your active monsters are represented by fully animated 3D models.
FUCK someone please make these now.
Imagine playing the Mechwarrior tabletop game where you could see the mechs actually fire and take damage. Or imagine playing the Pokemon TCG where your active monsters are represented by fully animated 3D models.
FUCK someone please make these now.
BleedOrange
Banned
Your real, actual, human eyes would be useless for watching a video on a 'screen' that size at the distance he's standing from it. Hes like a foot and a half away from a 15' screen haha. HoloLens or not that's gonna be a bad experience.
Tntnico
Member
About gaming and Hololens. We know that next apparition for Hololens will be E3.
What if Microsoft plans to launch a first "light" version of Hololens that needs an Xbox One early 2016 and then a true, self-contained Hololens for Holiday 2017 ?
That way, the "Home" version of the device could be cheaperand provide to players :
- Stream Xbox One games to Hololens
- Special effects from the game into our living room (snow, leafs, bullets etc..)
What if Microsoft plans to launch a first "light" version of Hololens that needs an Xbox One early 2016 and then a true, self-contained Hololens for Holiday 2017 ?
That way, the "Home" version of the device could be cheaperand provide to players :
- Stream Xbox One games to Hololens
- Special effects from the game into our living room (snow, leafs, bullets etc..)