Microsoft HoloLens: At the Build 2015 Developer Conference currently taking place, Microsoft has just officially re-announced the Windows Holographic Platform.
Microsoft announced HoloLens earlier this year, but today's presentation was impressive. In the presentation, Microsoft showed a screen with Windows that you can simply control with your voice: With a "follow me" the screen moves with you as you walk around the room.
"Every universal Windows application will have these capabilities," Microsoft said.
Apps look like small windows that move in space, but they can do more than that. They are interactive and fully functional for the end user. The demo included photos, a browser, Skype, a holographic Start menu, and even a dog on the floor (irrelevant but it existed).
In essence, it is an augmented reality device with Windows 10 that allows you to see virtual 3D "holograms" in the space around you.
The device contains a special one Hologram Processing Unit. The idea of HoloLens is to integrate this technology with Microsoft's popular Windows operating system.
There are, of course, tremendous business capabilities from applications that have not yet been developed, which Microsoft has highlighted.
The company has already collaborated with several companies (Nasa, Unity, Legendary, Autodesk, and Disney) who are interested in through HoloLens to discover new ways of collaborating and interacting.
Announcing a holographic platform at its developer congress, Microsoft once again tries to persuade developers to develop applications for the device Microsoft HoloLens.