WISH YOU HAD a bigger screen to watch films on? Or maybe some more photos of your loved ones hanging on the walls of your house? Want a dog, but you don’t have the time to look after one?
Microsoft’s latest foray into the emerging world of augmented reality tech could tackle all of these problems.
At a talk at the recent Build 2015, audience members were able to see a glimpse of what it’s like to use the company’s HoloLens device without putting on a pair.
While a Microsoft employee sauntered around the stage, a special camera was hooked up to show what he was seeing through the glasses.
While Facebook’s Oculus Rift has been mainly geared towards gaming, with few practical users in the home demonstrated, Microsoft’s latest offering (or at least, the latest device its showing-off that might never be sold to the public in its current form) has sparked more of a consumer interest – Quartz notes how users who watch the video can almost see the appeal in owning a Hololens.
However, the video above gives audience members a somewhat accurate but misleading idea of what its like to wear and use a Hololens. Critics have complained of a narrow ‘letterbox’ through with you can see the holograms, as Cade Metz from Wired explains:
When you wear the device—as opposed to viewing the holograms via a movie camera equipped with very different hardware—your “field of view” is significantly smaller. You only see holograms in a slim area in front of your eyes—an area that spans about 35 to 40 degrees horizontally, according to [one analyst].
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