"Imagine wearing a VR device and seeing your physical hands as you manipulate an object, working on the scanned 3D image of a real object, or bringing the holographic representation of another person into your virtual world so you can collaborate. "
Imagine looking out of your eyes and watching your hands open a beer bottle from your own 3D fridge, and then handing another one to your buddy in the real world of your 3D kitchen and watching him open it in front of your eyes as well. Sheesh!
Windows 10, the universal operating platform is now being extended into the VR world. According to the article, Microsoft is trying to get everyone on board to unify VR technologies into one standard, undoubtedly based on HoloLens and Windows.
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish", also known as "Embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.
Same ole Microsoft.
But what I am looking for is some real world value to this outside of gaming and perhaps entertainment.
3D does work in CAD modeling too. It can do a good job of conceptualizing as shown in the video. As for real time 3D collaboration, I don't think there will ever will be an extensive need for something like that. Most people I know usually work independently on a project to get it a point where it needs to be sent off to someone else for approval anyways. If any collaboration is needed, I know there are plenty of online tools, programs, and resources that can accomplish this sort of thing right now. In Microsoft's vision of having a universal platform for doing this, I think it might end up with yet another Windows 10 thing where programs and apps that we have come to trust will either get watered down or become just plain missing.
Independently I wrote this on another forum, before seeing this thread:
I can honestly say I have never hoped to wear a VR device and interact with the virtual world via my physical hands. Perhaps I'm an old dinosaur. Does that actually sound attractive to some folks? It must be something they think is wanted by video game generations. I can imagine it would improve games.
Thing is, when I *do* try to imagine it, I imagine that there will be misregistration and delays that will serve to make the user violently nauseous. This is MICROSOFT we're talking about here. Never known for perfection in anything. I wonder if you'll be able to easily clean the inside of the HoloLens device.
So far the most exciting time for me was when Windows NT first came out.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Imagine looking out of your eyes and watching your hands open a beer bottle from your own 3D fridge, and then handing another one to your buddy in the real world of your 3D kitchen and watching him open it in front of your eyes as well. Sheesh!
In our day "virtual beer" meant anything less than 3.2
Hololense is a solution looking for a problem. The money they spend on it would be better invested in professional beta testers for 10.
there is only one real market for that kind of junk
install p-rnware app / game put on headset grab rubber doll, and start the "game"
Don't give em' any ideas,Locutus. Sure enough they will offer blow-up Cortanas with every online upgrade to 10. They have already tried every shameless trick in the book to promote the free offer.
Last Edit: Jun 3, 2016 15:37:56 GMT -6 by Bayer A.User
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6