What is the killer app that will get people to go out and buy these? I don't think Holo Studio is it.
Where is your imagination racing to?
Where is your imagination racing to?
As a developer, having a wall of holographic desktop screen space in front of me would be amazing. My home office would look much better too!
I have no idea how far away this version of HoloLens is from that reality though.
I think it would be very cool to just have 3 tripods on your desk (a ball on a stick) that represent 3 screen spaces. You could reach out and move them around, telescope them up and down in the physical world and the headset could use them for triangulation to render an accurate monitor on each. You'd still have a keyboard and mouse in the first iteration and then slowly overtime give way to other forms of input.
Given something more adaptive, there's no reason you couldn't have a ginormous holographic wraparound workspace... or whatever your imagination can come up with.
Sadly the video player is horrible, and I didn't see this video on YouTube.
'can respond at frequencies up to 150 Hz or higher in response to individual action potential pulses of less than 3 milliseconds'
I know that this tech could do so much more (one giant display the size of the wall) but the different displays is nice bec it allows me to silo things into different categories.
A good keyboard only UI (I don't trust small scale pointer input), and you could move the entire traditional PC interface over into a very discreet package.
The web would be the one place where changing UI paradigms would be hard, the web pretty much insists on fine motor skills clicking one of hundreds of visible links on a page.
It's what I first thought of when I tried the Youtube app on Google Cardboard. The app has you in a theater with a main viewing screen, but then littered 360 degrees around you are other videos you can watch or cycle through.
All I could think was how awesome it would be to have half a dozen virtual screens (that I could manipulate) for programming. It would well justify the cost of a good device because six monitors would be probably just as expensive.
If the Oculus Rift is any indication-- This is still a long ways away, unfortunately.
Is that a killer app, I guess not, but if this HoloLens device is really running Windows 10, and the API's are baked into the OS, that puts it MILES ahead of where Google Glass was, and developers will be able to do something more interesting than take photos and share them on Google+.
That would be a major market for this technology.
Can you expand and maybe source that comment. "Initially funded" to me suggests that the R&D was funded by people/companies for the purpose of carrying pornography.
"Popularised by" is often suggested, or even "first exploited commercially for" - either of these seem far more likely. I just can't see Daguerre, or whoever (Wedgewood, Fox-Talbot, ..), getting pay-checks from people/companies that want to publish porn?
I'm not saying, yet, that you're wrong - history is often surprising.
By wire recordings you mean the audio recordings on wires that predate reel-to-reel and such. Are there existing audio porn recordings from the 1890s? It seems strange with the cost of the tech that anyone would even want it as a recording when the people who could afford it, given the massive difference in income and the availability of prostitutes, could order a live rendition. Stranger things have happened though.
Telegraph? Morse or semaphore porn, ... I'd have thought that was really an exception to Rule 34!?
Pray tell, more details.
THAT FEELS GOOD STOP NO DONT STOP STOPNormally you'd need a large open space (and a forklift) to demonstrate the product but with this? You could do it in a large room.
I think this is actually the killer app for anyone too.
Imagine shopping at Amazon and being able to manipulate a product in your hands before you buy? Want to buy studio monitors for the PC but don't know where to place them? Whip out your HoloLens and put them wherever you want!
How would that piece of art look on your wall? What about the other wall over there?
IKEA? Hmm... which couch looks best in my living room?
Imagine seeing a marker shooting into the sky, like an old movie premier spotlight, that marked the locations of your friends and family? Or just anything.
At an amusement park and don't know where the nearest bathroom is? Follow the blue arrows on the ground and you'll find it.
The possibilities are endless.
Virtuix Omni is a hack to make Oculus physically immersive: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/11/4419832/virtuix-omni-vr-ha...
This sounds amazing! She didn't go into a ton of details on this, so I wonder if it's as cool as I imagine.
If done well it could be a game changer for 3D printing (and a "killer app" for many families).