Kinect is dead. Meet Microsoft's HoloLens

Microsoft's HoloLens is absolutely mind blowing. The last part of this video is just like the Star Trek's holodeck. When JPL gets all excited over this new thing you know it's something special.

See for yourself...

http://youtu.be/b6sL_5Wgvrg

Yeah, was reading that.

With the Rift and Sony's Morpheus this could be an awesome MS answer.

I'd also LOVE to see this hook into the Xbox One. That'd be a pretty awesome selling point.

The writing is on the wall for Microsoft as a company, I'd be surprised if they survive another generation in the video game arena.

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Originally Posted by Blades

The writing is on the wall for Microsoft as a company, I'd be surprised if they survive another generation in the video game arena.

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Because making this piece of innovative hardware and having 2 back to back consoles in the #1 and 2 spots with several AAA award winning franchises (both multi platform and exclusive) is obviously terrible?

I gotta say, that's incredibly cool. Can't believe I'm saying that about a microsoft product.

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

I gotta say, that's incredibly cool. Can't believe I'm saying that about a microsoft product.

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It's a pretty logical next step from a lot of the other stuff they have been doing, as well as a few other things out there. There's plenty of AR phones out there that will just place some stuff on the screen based loosely around what's in the image. And the Kinect itself tried to do some stuff like this this.

They also had a demo awhile back of a whole room using projectors and multiple kinects working together to do something like this.

So really, this is not that surprising, but pretty cool, especially if it's able to have halfway decent battery life and performance with the size it's already down to.

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Because making this piece of innovative hardware and having 2 back to back consoles in the #1 and 2 spots with several AAA award winning franchises (both multi platform and exclusive) is obviously terrible?

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That's what people used to say about Sega.

This is HARDLY innovative in the slightest. They're at least five years behind everyone else, as usual. That's MS, always late to the party, then pretending to have invented the party once they arrive. :lol:

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Originally Posted by Blades

That's what people used to say about Sega.

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Sega and MS's situations are quite different.

MS isn't reliant completely on Games, let alone the Console market. They also aren't going through serious financial struggles.

On top of that, The Xbox did well, the 360 did better, and the Xbox one looks to be doing pretty well so far, even if it's likely going to take awhile (if ever) to catch the PS4.

Sega was completely reliant on games, both arcades (a dying business at the time), and home consoles.
They were in a bad financial spot, and had made many missteps along the way leading up to the premature drop of the Dreamcast.

Sega could only have dreamed of being in a position as good as Microsoft by the time they exited the console hardware market.

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Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

This is HARDLY innovative in the slightest. They're at least five years behind everyone else, as usual. That's MS, always late to the party, then pretending to have invented the party once they arrive. :lol:

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I don't see anyone else with a product anything close to doing what this has been demoed doing.

The Rift is great, but still a screen you display things on. AR on phones and the like are much more limited and also on a display.

This is completely transparent and integrating everything in the environment around you as part of what's being displayed.

I don't presume to say that no one is doing anything like this at all, but I've never seen anything come close to what they have demo'd. Only a few limited proof of concept demonstrations here and there, one of which was the multi kinect + projector example I mentioned above.

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Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

This is HARDLY innovative in the slightest. They're at least five years behind everyone else, as usual. That's MS, always late to the party, then pretending to have invented the party once they arrive. :lol:

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Being standalone is a pretty big difference. And they're joining this market on time. That's pretty innovative for microsoft!

(And nobody is doing the whole hologram stuff like they are either, not at this level)

MS has a very diverse and good looking group of "creatives."

Looks pretty cool. Now we can all see Miku clearly at her concerts!

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Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118

Looks pretty cool. Now we can all see Miku clearly at her concerts!

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Actually, a virtual concert with these would be pretty cool I'd think.

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Originally Posted by EclecticGroove

Actually, a virtual concert with these would be pretty cool I'd think.

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It would solve the problem the current ones have where if you're not at the right angle the illusion breaks.