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Posted on 08/18/2016 6:14:21 AM PDT by dayglored
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/16/windows_10_holographic/
Unfortunately I can't seem to get it to embed in this thread...
Have you noticed how hokey the picture with the girl is?
If not, look at how the shadows fall in the picture. She is not a human.
As to these headsets ... they, by design, are bigoted to the human population who do NOT have to wear reading glasses, or multi-lens face-fitting frames.
If they had announced up front that they were going to bring porn to a whole new level, they would have met their targets for conversion to Win10, without having to resort to the coercion and involuntary upgrades.
Will the installation be mandatory, max out all resources even if never used, and make most hardware obsolete, including peripherals?
Ten years ago, I designed, patented, and produced the first touch-less mouse...The Motion Mate.
I used three Sharp IR detectors, an E PROM, I wrote the firmware in PIC and the drivers in C. I used phase space algorithms to perform real time predictive co-ordinate shifts derived by repetitive sampling positions of the users’ hands by target acquisition via triangulation.
It worked perfectly. I even designed a 3D game of Jenga for it.
That being said. There is a big down side.
Try this exercise:
Stand for five minutes moving your hands around, perhaps pretending to chisel a statue out of granite.
It’s taxing, uncomfortable, and exhausting...if not down right damaging!
This will be as successful as 3D television was.
Isn’t that the XP file search doggie in that picture?
Their art dept was on vacation that week. They used what was on-hand.
They'll probably make you buy new printers too.
They have got to make this work with something the size of Google Glass.
I like my ViewMaster-ish VR headset, but I’ve found out that I can only use it for about 20 minutes before it actually starts to make me sleepy.
This simulation would never work for me using a similar headset.
I’ve had an Oculus Rift DK2 for over a year, and I have no problems using it while wearing glasses. They provide lenses you can snap in if you’re nearsighted. Since your face is sitting very close to the display, unless you’re incredibly nearsighted (like me), you can use a VR headset without much trouble.
Microsoft is moving the augmented reality (AR) ball across the field. They recognize that VR with the Vive, Rift, and upcoming headsets is a crowded market. They want to make waves in AR where you can still see everything around you, but there’s a semi-transparent computer overlay. I do like that concept for office automation and teleconferencing.
The OS is not supposed to BE the application, it's job is RUN the application and stay the hell out of the way otherwise. That's what nearly 100% of enterprise users, government users, small and medium business users, and home business users want.
Microsoft has run so far off the rails, they'll never get back on the tracks:
No, Terry, the girl is real, the background is all fake. That’s why there’s no shadows, etc. etc.
catnipman, I think you’re hitting the nail on the head.
The video mock-up was a bad joke, especially with the dog. The search dog from past UIs? Really, Microsoft? Why don’t you just bring MS Bob back and be done with it?
The 3D interface is just Hollywood Computer Interface, taken too seriously. Let’s just walk through some filing cabinets and start pulling out drawers, then put the papers from the folders in the cabinets on a large desk, where we can move them around and twirl them, except NONE OF IT’S REAL IT’S ALL COMPYUTARS!
*shake my head*
Why would you need to wear glasses with these? They ARE glasses!
Upside: People will have really strong arms!
Another Microsoft failure in progress.
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