I can think of one of the' imaginary' people I would like to prorgam into mine...
Posted on 05/23/2015 11:39:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Demonstrations of augmented-reality displays typically involve tricking you into seeing animated content such as monsters and robots that aren’t really there. Microsoft wants its forthcoming HoloLens headset to mess with reality more believably. It has developed a way to make you see photorealistic 3-D people that fit in with the real world.
With this technology, you could watch an acrobat tumble across your front room or witness your niece take some of her first steps. You could walk around the imaginary people just as if they were real, your viewpoint changing seamlessly as if they were actually there. A sense of touch is just about the only thing missing.
That experience is possible because Microsoft has built a kind of holographic TV studio at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Roughly 100 cameras capture a performance from many different angles. Software uses the different viewpoints to create a highly accurate 3-D model of the person performing, resulting in a photo-real appearance.
The more traditional approach of using computer animation can’t compare, according to Steve Sullivan, who works on the project at Microsoft. He demonstrated what Microsoft calls “video holograms” at the LDV Vision Summit, an event about image-processing technology, in New York on Tuesday. More details of the technology will be released this summer.
“There’s something magical about it being real people and motion,” he said. “If you have a HoloLens, you really feel these performances are in your world.”
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Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi...
CNET News - Using HoloLens, Microsoft overlays physical robot with holographic robot
CNET News - Microsoft reveals latest uses of HoloLens at Build 2015
Its probably the only way feminists can have any friends
I can see that this technology is going to revolutionize
the PORN industry...
yeah, kitties that never grow and never need a litter box.
I guess that someday, instead of listening to music while we are doing our desk work, that we will be able to have the band over in the corner of the room, playing it live for us.
Let us not speculate upon which celebrity’s hologram would be best used for target practice.
Great, Moo and Hillary could visit you!
I can think of one of the' imaginary' people I would like to prorgam into mine...
Bread and Circuses.
Be sure and take off the headset before cussing your imaginary boss, just to confirm.
Actually, you point out a potentially hot application: shoot/no-shoot training for cops, and close quarters combat training for the military, projecting virtual enemies onto real environments.
I can see this being used by our corrupt government (mystery Babylon) to simulate a false flag or alien attack, an antichrist image etc.
This would provide realistic images a War of the Worlds type broadcast.
“Let us not speculate upon which celebrity’s hologram would be best used for target practice.”
That is best left unsaid. We would not want uninvited swat teams dropping by our house!
I’d rather have a visit from Lee Koda.
Really this may be the only way to make Obamacare work, everyone gets their own ill tempered Emergency medical Hologram.
Electronic porn fostered better video/higher resolutions. Porn was the backbone of the internet and primary driver into everyone’s house.
AOL and Yahoo blossomed with porn and chat groups, images, videos, etc.
I see no reason why it will not drive holographic technology as well.
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