Microsoft HoloLens

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It's interesting to see how their demo video aggressively avoids showing people wearing the thing. They obviously want people to focus on the use cases rather than the social dynamic of wearing a massive cyber-helmet. Yet those social issues will make or break the product - and I can't see how Microsoft can claim to have cracked that nut.

I suspect the "Glassholes" have just met their "Holo Trooper" brethren.

Well, on one hand, glass is supposed to be something that you wear around like an asshole.

This looks like at least its marketed more towards being an alternate or augmentation to your display. So if you're wearing it, it's going to be in your house or in your workplace, as opposed to in a coffee shop or chatting with your friends.

e: I don't even know if it can be operated without some other computer doing the processing for it. It was really demoing it like a display rather than a wearable computer.

That is an interesting advertisement. I am more interested in reality though.

There are some difficulties like head tracking for instance that would be hard to work out. The advertisement shows the images stationary in space, that's a hard problem to solve to make them stable as you walk around let alone move your head. If it isn't that way and they are in fixed locations relative to the glasses, then it would be a bit disconcerting to move with them on.

You look at advertisements from google glass and it's so far off the reality. I can't really get that hyped over promotional fluff.

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