Revealed by multinational corporation last January, Microsoft is set to release its latest device, HoloLens, an augmented reality headset that fuses reality with the digital world that will be made available later this year with a price not raging more than $600.
The HaloLens will be a Star Trek-style visor that will overlap holograms into a user's vision of their environment. It blends the world of digital into reality and creates a different set of uses for the HoloLens than those of virtual reality headsets. It will run on the new Windows 10 and will potentially be released on December 2015. Users can be creative and produce their own holograms with the use of Microsoft's HoloStudio and then have it completed with the use of 3D printing.
It is designed to work in an array of applications from Minecraft to Skype and there will be no need to use a smartphone or PC connection in order for it to work. Users can actively walk around virtual objects freely and without the use of hardware that limits the user for positional tracking. In order to interact with the world, the user will use their hands.
As for gaming, well, the Microsoft HoloLens will surely raise the standards high. "Gaming and entertainment is going to be critical", remarks Head of Xbox Phil Spencer in a panel discussing the importance of gaming on the virtual reality device. "HoleLens will be a full Windows 10 device with holographic capability".
Mojang's Minecraft will be one of the first games coming to the techonology. Minecraft is an open world game that allows the player to create his or her own world and combined with HaloLens, this surely makes the game more exciting!
Aside from being available on the highly anticipated Windows 10 that is also set to release later this year, the Microsoft HoloLens will also be available on the Xbox One.
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