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. On stage, Microsoft showed a Windows screen that you can simply control with your voice: With a “follow me” the screen moves with you as you walk around.eyeThe.
"Each universal Windows app will have these capabilities," Microsoft said.
Apps look like little windows that move around, but they can do more than that. They are interactive and fully functional for the end user. The demonstration included photographs, a program browsing, Skype, a holographic menu Starts, even a dog on the floor (unrelated but there).
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 is already working with various companies (Nasa, Unity, Legendary, Autodesk, and Disney) that are interested in discovering new ways of using HoloLens cooperationand interaction.
Announcing a holographic platform at its developer congress, Microsoft once again tries to persuade developers to develop applications for the device Microsoft HoloLens.