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Building holograms with Microsoft HoloLens (hands-on)

Posted on May 12, 2015April 20, 2020 By Hulk

 

 

Three months ago I strapped on Microsoft’s HoloLens for the first time and instantly became a believer. The clunky tethered prototype was a far cry from the sleek, cable-free experience revealed on stage, but once I paced the surface of Mars and poked holographic sheep I was convinced that Microsoft’s vision of augmented reality would be the ideal way to interact with, well, everything.

Tonight I got a second taste of HoloLens. This time, instead of walking through canned demonstrations I put on my developer beanie and built a holographic experience of my own — with a lot of pre-written code and some guidance from a proper software developer, of course. And no more clunky harness for me: I wore the real deal, that sleek headset we’ve seen in so many of Microsoft’s demonstrations.
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Wearables Tags:Augmented Reality, developer, experience, headset, mars, Microsoft, microsoft hololens, Microsoft's HoloLens, prototype, software, Surface

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