05-11-2015, 05:48 PM
Sir i want seminar report on Microsoft hololens
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seminar report on microsoft hololens
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Sir i want seminar report on Microsoft hololens
06-11-2015, 02:26 PM
seminar report on microsoft hololens
Microsoft MSFT +0.00% Hololens is a strange thing. It sits somewhere between Oculus Rift and Google GOOGL +0.66% Glass, overlaying 3D images onto the real world in the most ambitious Augmented Reality (AR) project to date. The New York Times had an in-depth article on this uncharacteristic moonshot last week, using the project as an exemplar for Satya Nadella’s less fractured and more ambitious Microsoft. The whole thing is worth a read, but I’m interested in this tidbit, coming from an unnamed source at Microsoft: that Hololens will cost “significantly” more than a video game console, which runs about $400.
Hololens is meant to go on sale sometime around the launch period of Windows 10, making it, as the Times puts it, a “crucible” for Nadella’s new concept of a borderless Windows ecosystem. And while Microsoft is making a push to reenter the mass market, it is important to remember that Microsoft is an enterprise business. The thing is, while the Hololens has a distinct video game flavor to it, I doubt that this summer’s early adopters will come from that side of Microsoft’s business. Sure, moving Minecraft blocks around with your hands makes for a great demo, but other enterprise uses for this would be the sort of thing that justifies a $400+ price tag. The most obvious use is with Skype, another Microsoft property. Imagine something like a scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service, where you sit at an empty conference table and put on your Hololens to populate the chairs with meeting attendees from anywhere in the world. People have already talked about VR for virtual conferences, but Hololens’ ability to up the immersion by using your real surroundings seems more promising. I’d also expect this to be very useful in design and manufacturing, allowing workers and artists to match real materials to their virtual presences.
Hololens could, potentially, function like a business-first concept like Google-Glass had promised it could do: one can imagine the same sort of on-screen directions, emails, notifications and the like, just augmented a little bit. The key is in how it’s framed: it’s a lot easier to get a warehouse employee to wear a headset to work than it is to convince the same person to do so at a bar afterwards.
We often think about AR and VR in the same breath (they both, for example, end in “R”), but where the likes of Oculus and Sony are clearly aiming directly at the mass market first, I don’t think this is how Microsoft is going to approach the Hololens. I’m excited to see what happens when the tech eventually gets cheap enough to start selling it to everyday consumers, though. There’s no mistaking that eventual goal in the demo video above, but one wonders how long it will take to actually get there.
Microsoft MSFT +0.00% Hololens is a strange thing. It sits somewhere between Oculus Rift and Google GOOGL +0.66% Glass, overlaying 3D images onto the real world in the most ambitious Augmented Reality (AR) project to date. The New York Times had an in-depth article on this uncharacteristic moonshot last week, using the project as an exemplar for Satya Nadella’s less fractured and more ambitious Microsoft. The whole thing is worth a read, but I’m interested in this tidbit, coming from an unnamed source at Microsoft: that Hololens will cost “significantly” more than a video game console, which runs about $400.
Hololens is meant to go on sale sometime around the launch period of Windows 10, making it, as the Times puts it, a “crucible” for Nadella’s new concept of a borderless Windows ecosystem. And while Microsoft is making a push to reenter the mass market, it is important to remember that Microsoft is an enterprise business. The thing is, while the Hololens has a distinct video game flavor to it, I doubt that this summer’s early adopters will come from that side of Microsoft’s business. Sure, moving Minecraft blocks around with your hands makes for a great demo, but other enterprise uses for this would be the sort of thing that justifies a $400+ price tag. The most obvious use is with Skype, another Microsoft property. Imagine something like a scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service, where you sit at an empty conference table and put on your Hololens to populate the chairs with meeting attendees from anywhere in the world. People have already talked about VR for virtual conferences, but Hololens’ ability to up the immersion by using your real surroundings seems more promising. I’d also expect this to be very useful in design and manufacturing, allowing workers and artists to match real materials to their virtual presences.
Hololens could, potentially, function like a business-first concept like Google-Glass had promised it could do: one can imagine the same sort of on-screen directions, emails, notifications and the like, just augmented a little bit. The key is in how it’s framed: it’s a lot easier to get a warehouse employee to wear a headset to work than it is to convince the same person to do so at a bar afterwards.
We often think about AR and VR in the same breath (they both, for example, end in “R”), but where the likes of Oculus and Sony are clearly aiming directly at the mass market first, I don’t think this is how Microsoft is going to approach the Hololens. I’m excited to see what happens when the tech eventually gets cheap enough to start selling it to everyday consumers, though. There’s no mistaking that eventual goal in the demo video above, but one wonders how long it will take to actually get there.
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