A few days before Christmas last year, we saw the first glimpse of HoloSuit, a new motion controller by startup Kaaya Tech. This full-body motion controller is designed as a tracksuit with sensors that can be used to control devices such as a computer or Microsoft HoloLens, and now it’s getting ready to start production,...
An interesting new use-case for the Microsoft HoloLens appeared in a YouTube video from Washington-based DataMesh last month. In it, you can see the HoloLens working in conjunction with the Microsoft Surface Studio, Surface Dial, and Surface Pen for 3D model detailing and visualization in real time. Video: . We have talked about the complexities...
HoloLens app developer Trimble has been working with the University of Cambridge, UK to find practical applications for Microsoft’s holographic technology in the construction industry. Trimble developed the SketchUp Viewer app, which allows architects to see hologram versions of building models when they’re wearing the HoloLens headset. Along with the University of Cambridge’s Construction Information...
“Necessity, not novelty,” is a phrase I use often when it comes to HoloLens development. It would be fair to call it my mantra, or mission statement, as I prototype and explore software creation on this new frontier of mixed reality. “What kind of experiences will keep people using these devices until the batteries run...
Sky Zhou, also know as Matrix Inception on YouTube, is no stranger here on NextReality. We loved his Pokémon concept game for HoloLens, as well as his D3D Keyboard that lets HoloLens users leave notes around the house. He just can’t seem to stop creating cool mixed reality apps, and he’s already got another one...
HoloLens developer Michael Peters of In-Vizible has released quite a few videos since receiving his HoloLens last year. Many of his experiments are odd and funny, but some include serious potential approaches to data visualization. In the videos embedded below, you’ll specifically see stock market information beautifully rendered in different ways to help understand the...
A press release issued Feb 2 2017 states that Microsoft and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have partnered with the U.S. Navy to determine potential naval applications of Augmented Reality technology. The Navy said Tuesday the disruptive technology laboratory at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock division will also work with other government agencies to identify uses for Microsoft’s HoloLens in support of Navy and Marine...
An opinion piece on The Economist dated February 4th 2017, offers the opinion that Augmented Reality will be big in business before it is accepted more widely. Wearables are discussed and the idea is to build a pair of “smart glasses” that do everything a smartphone can, and more. Augmented Reality (AR) would “paint computerised...
An article on Upload VR suggests that Apple is working on something in the VR/AR space. A newly published patent may offer clues to this. The patent is for a “wearable information system having at least one camera.” According to the abstract: “The invention is related to a wearable information system having at least one camera, the...
If you’ve played the game Portal by Valve before, you’ve most likely popped one portal onto the ceiling and another directly below it on the floor, dropped your Companion Cube in, and then watched it fall forever. Well, now it has been done in real life, in an actual hallway, not in a rendered world....
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