Recent content by NikolausD

even if you had the 3000$, you could buy a HoloLens only if Microsoft accepts your application.

As you might know, Microsoft just posted a guide for HoloLens developers. I looked through the whole thing, and as it turns out, there is tons of new and detailed information in there regarding the user experience in HoloLens. So I wrote this overview of what it will be like to use HoloLens...

Judging from what we've seen so far, they seem to keep the general tile design of WP8.1, apart from making them semi-transparent with a background image. Actually I think they will make the tiles on W10 for PCs look more like WP. As you can see in this official mockup, the preinstalled apps use...

I can see what you mean, but since Android/iOS app designs are getting better than they used to be (from a Metro fan's perspective), adjusting WP app design to those is not that much of a problem to me. Those new apps still have a relatively clean, simple and organized look. I also wish they...

:D Love this thread. Maybe this has been posted before, but two days ago Joe Belfiore said in a tweet that his video about W10 for phones will be uploaded in 1-2 weeks. So we can expect the preview for phones to be available roughly sometime between February 2nd and 9th.

What is there to doubt? Skype for HoloLens, as demoed to the press, is designed specifically for scenarios where one person is assisting another person who is wearing a HoloLens. Face-to-face chat in AR on the other hand would require 1) smaller, more transparent glasses (so you can see each...

Well, yeah HoloLens can definitely make things appear like that, but my theory is that HoloLens simply projects the virtual image (in this case, the image of what's underneath the table) at a brightness that is higher than the real image (of the table's surface) so that the resulting image on...

I never thought of it this way, you're saying the lenses somehow redirect the light, that's coming from outside, to the light engine, which then manipulates the light (by adding or subtracting light), sends it to the lenses, which project the light into the eye? I don't know, there are a few...

I think the most elegant solution would have to be some kind of mechanism that allows the optical output of the light engine to trigger the blacking out of parts of the lens, because having a separate system for that would make the whole thing so much more complicated (synching it with the light...

The "background" is the real world, which of course you can't black out. There's no "background light" in the device (there's no screen). If you turn the light source ("light engine") off, you don't see black, you see the real world behind the transparent lenses. EDIT: oh I get it, you probably...

VERY interesting, thanks for the link! Although I'm not sure if the technical implementation in HoloLens (the whole thing about the lenses and the corrugated grooves and interference) is the same as described in the Wikipedia article, it's very possible that HoloLens is based on the same basic...

Thanks for the tip, I found the article, it's Title is "microsoft-hololens-uses-unreleased-intel-atom-chip" So it seems like the CPU and GPU in HoloLens are based on Intel Cherry Trail, the Bay Trail successor for tablets and low-end PCs. It's smaller, faster, and has wireless charging and...

There's no information on battery life yet, but we can roughly estimate it. The battery has to power 3 powerful processors, a bunch of sensors (all of which presumably don't consume that much power), speakers, and the "light engine", which is very different from a screen, so we don't really...

Great! Do you know any online sources that explain this technology in detail, or examples of other implementations of it? I tried to find them but I don't even know what keywords to search for.

Before we can even start speculating about what kinds of neat things HoloLens will enable us to do, we need to know how exactly the device works and what its technical capabilities and limitations are. After doing a bit of research, gathering information from Microsoft's official statements...