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gaming_noob said:
Imagine playing Silent Hills and you catch a ghost standing right behind your own piece of furniture.
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That would be awesome, but in reality.. I don't know if I'm going to be on this world when all this becomes what it is in the prototype trailer.

We're not all this creative designer, but it's a great idea for teaching people to start creating.

I'd love to go through a town while sitting in the tub; granted it doesn't electrocute the person when wet.
 
gaming_noob said:
Imagine playing Silent Hills and you catch a ghost standing right behind your own piece of furniture.
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This probably doesn't work very well in the dark does it (if at all)? I'm assuming it would have difficulty seeing the room/objects and attempting to lighting correct the holograms to look believable.
 
It's doesn't do anything for me to be negative about what I saw today. Clearly its healthy to approach anything like this with a sense of skepticism. How you preface that skepticism is important because to willfully ignore the reality of how far they are already and treat everything like "until I see it for myself" is completely disingenuous however there are plenty of questions on the table to ask while still being optimistic.

I have a few myself:
  1. Can these devices be networked in a way were everyone can see the same AR world from each observer's perspective? Like p2p sharing
  2. Someone needs to really create a higher fidelity input device for the hand to work with this. Gesture input is beginning to show its limitations profoundly
  3. The visual resolution of this thing... what is it? They say HD. I want it to be 4K on each eyes! 0_o
  4. I'm interested to hear more about what this HGU actually does. How many sensors is the device processing and what is the lag time between the sensors and the software stack after it passes through the sensor? What's the update frequency?
 
This is all super interesting and plausible at some point I'm just not sure I trust any of this will come to fruition. Microsoft doesn't have the grit to achieve some of this nature. They are welcome to prove me wrong though.

I do actually like seeing the Microsoft logo on hardware though. It's classy. Makes me want their bracelet.
 
Jtwo said:
This is all super interesting and plausible at some point I'm just not sure I trust any of this will come to fruition. Microsoft doesn't have the grit to achieve some of this nature. They are welcome to prove me wrong though.

I do actually like seeing the Microsoft logo on hardware though. It's classy. Makes me want their bracelet.
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It is in fruition already. Read the damn impressions. It's like people stopped caring about everything.
 
I'm not doubting the actual technology works. I'm talking about the ecosystem and platform.
 
I've read several previews and shit, I'm ready for it. Not a single one was negative. I hated VR but this is such a different experience. When the leak said a "VR helmet" I thought the worst.

fuck guys, fuck.
 
gaming_noob said:
Imagine playing Silent Hills and you catch a ghost standing right behind your own piece of furniture.
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Yes, I can see this as the true solution for their illumiroom concept that used expensive projectors. That was a great example but I could see every game benefiting just by expanding what you see on tv into the living room.
 
Ape said:
I've read several previews and shit, I'm ready for it. Not a single one was negative. I hated VR but this is such a different experience. When the leak said a "VR helmet" I thought the worst.

fuck guys, fuck.
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I can't believe how everyone was saying it felt so real. It's fucking unbelievable that this technology is available today.
 
Compsiox said:
It is in fruition already. Read the damn impressions. It's like people stopped caring about everything.
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Read Engadget personally and well it sounds completely different. Also, but this is my own opinion: I don't trust press impressions anymore. They are encouraged to give good previews / reviews etc... thanks to PR etc. the reviews of some of the broken games we had end 2014 should make people more careful about these press. Anyway, I'll just say this: I'm skeptic untill I have the thing on my own head.

Anyway, the tech itself is cool but I can't see much use gaming wise apart from stuff we' e seen with Kinect. What I mean is: the world is your living room... Isnt that limiting you somehow. I can see great use of this in education, science, hospitals etc. but gaming wise, this makes me think of Eye of judgment. The whole 'look my table is interactive' is funny for 5 min, but thats it. I really think this can be of great use in schools and for science purposes
 
Ape said:
I've read several previews and shit, I'm ready for it. Not a single one was negative. I hated VR but this is such a different experience. When the leak said a "VR helmet" I thought the worst.

fuck guys, fuck.
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Dude, your cat knew all along...

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I'm really excited for this, but for those thinking this is a VR device, consider a quote from this hands on test:

"It's not like the Oculus Rift, where you're totally immersed in a virtual world practically anywhere you look. The current HoloLens field of view is TINY!"

This tech has a long way to go, but certainly IS the future. Exciting times!
 
Compsiox said:
I can't believe how everyone was saying it felt so real. It's fucking unbelievable that this technology is available today.
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"Today" as in probably not for at least 2 years. The timeframe they gave for it to come out was so vague that it made me a little sad because I really want to get my hands on it.
 
Americanmushroom said:
Read Engadget personally and well it sounds completely different. Also, but this is my own opinion: I don't trust press impressions anymore. They are encouraged to give good previews / reviews etc... thanks to PR etc. the reviews of some of the broken games we had end 2014 should make people more careful about these press. Anyway, I'll just say this: I'm skeptic untill I have the thing on my own head.

Anyway, the tech itself is cool but I can't see much use gaming wise apart from stuff we' e seen with Kinect. What I mean is: the world is your living room... Isnt that limiting you somehow. I can see great use of this in education, science, hospitals etc. but gaming wise, this makes me think of Eye of judgment. The whole 'look my table is interactive' is funny for 5 min, but thats it. I really think this can be of great use in schools and for science purposes
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I know what you mean. Destiny was a big disappointment to me. I totally bought into it.

However, looking back, even EARLY impressions were like "it's cool...but its kiiiiiiiinda repetitive."

I really want to hear a price point and hope they get the size and design down to where they want.
 
Ape said:
Fuckkk she totally knew


How does the announcement of a new disruptive technoledgy only have 11 pages?
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These technologies are hard to appreciate until you experience them in person. For example, nobody that hasn't had a gunship fly over their head shooting rockets at them whilst racing along a canal in a sled can possibly understand the appeal unless they've tried Half Life 2 VR!

Soon, everyone will have an opportunity to try these devices out. They really are game changers! However, I don't begrudge the doubters.
 
If Microsoft gives me the ability to hold out my hand and have Cortana or Black Box or Roland or some Halo AI popup on it and ask me what I need I would be so giddy. I think there is a lot of potential and I can't wait to see where it goes.
 
GHG said:
If I can stream my xbox one or PC games to hololens I'm in.
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Holy crap! I just realized that they did say you could stream to any windows 10 tablet or PC and this thing is running windows 10 and it has to be more powerful than most if not all tablets out there ATM... I mean, if it can stream Netflix inside a virtual TV while other AR things are going on it should be able to handle streaming games right!? Right?...
 
I'm not convinced there is a lot of gaming potential but I'm excited about the other potential uses. Dennou Coil, people!
 
VlaudTheImpaler said:
Holy crap! I just realized that they did say you could stream to any windows 10 tablet or PC and this thing is running windows 10 and it has to be more powerful than most if not all tablets out there ATM... I mean, if it can stream Netflix inside a virtual TV while other AR things are going on it should be able to handle streaming games right!? Right?...
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Sorry for the following terrible screen cap from my phone.

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Isn't that the Windows 10 Xbox app logo?
 
I genuinely hope this doesn't kill the VR movement. There's a lot of good that can come out of that. Google, Microsoft and other companies (Apple?) will probably push AR forward into the front and leave VR in the dust so that has to hurt some of the businesses like Facebook, unless they also are in the AR game but we don't know about it.
 
Ape said:
I genuinely hope this doesn't kill the VR movement. There's a lot of good that can come out of that. Google, Microsoft and other companies (Apple?) will probably push AR forward into the front and leave VR in the dust so that has to hurt some of the businesses like Facebook, unless they also are in the AR game but we don't know about it.
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Doubt AR kills VR, but I can see it being more popular than VR since VR seems more game focused while Microsofts Hololens has more functional uses.

abadguy said:
Meh. VR, AR, none of that shit does anything for me.
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AR
porn
! Watch the action on the floor of your house!

Nanashrew said:
Yo, when can I have this with some duel discs for a game of Yugioh!
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Yugioh!, Pokémon battles, RTS games

I would actually like to see a Pokémon related game, but one were you have a Pokémon as a pet :D I'd like to have a piplup running around my house.
 
Ape said:
Fuckkk she totally knew


How does the announcement of a new disruptive technoledgy only have 11 pages?
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Maybe it is new. Maybe it is disruptive. But still, maybe it isn`t something everybody was waiting nor asking for.

I am still not sure what to think about it. If it only works if directly connected to a PC or XBone, then no. Google Glass is more or less the same AR tech but works everywhere (unless you are connected to the Internet via 3G/LTE). That's far more impressive, from my point of view.
 
Reallink said:
This probably doesn't work very well in the dark does it (if at all)? I'm assuming it would have difficulty seeing the room/objects and attempting to lighting correct the holograms to look believable.
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I don't know about getting the lighting correct, but it could see the objects with IR.

EmptySpace said:
i want to be transported to another world, not another world transporting to my living room.
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Transported to another world where you can't leave your chair.

I'm more into AR right now since that is inevitably the future. And of course that future's future is the merging of AR and VR in the same device. So you'll be able to sit down with a controller if you want, or you can walk around like a holodeck.
 
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