Exactly how do you Skype with others when they cannot see your face. The demo is misguiding at this point. Hololens sees what you see. You cannot see your own face unless standing in front of a mirror. Skype with a door seems funny, isn't it?
You don't doubt if you think about it this way:
When you Skype someone, you see what his camera see, he sees what your camera see. In the case of the demo, The girl on HoloLens sees the other person's face because his camera is in front of the tablet. The guy can't see the girl's face, but he sees things in front of her, because her camera is on her head. If the guy really want to see her face, she can get a mirror. If the two both are on HoloLens, they both get a mirror. If you think that's a problem then it is.
Yeah, a mirror. Then they can see how silly you look wearing that contraption on your head. Haha!
Exactly how do you Skype with others when they cannot see your face. The demo is misguiding at this point. Hololens sees what you see. You cannot see your own face unless standing in front of a mirror. Skype with a door seems funny, isn't it?
Even though for Skype call, the mirror doesn't have to be visible, Kinect has the image of everything in the room, including the person who is wearing the device. So, its not a problem. HoloLens can make a Skype call just like normal, even better it can show a 3D of the other person. People need to understand, the Kinect camera sees everything in the 3D space, not just the objects in front it.
JamesDax3 said:Also, I'm still thinking, and I could be wrong on this, that the hololens could project a mirror in front of you to use for face to face skype calls.
No it can't. The halolens isn't projecting anything on your walls/floor/table/etc... it is projecting it onto the halolens device which sits in front of your eyes and makes it look like an item is on the wall/table/floor/etc.... If it was to place a mirror in front of you it would actually be a tiny virtual mirror on the lens of the device. If that little mirror could somehow actually reflect (which it cannot as its just an image on a screen) it would just reflect what was in front of it which would be one, possibly both, of your eyes and maybe part of your nose.
JamesDax3 said:And you are certain of this because?
I don't know what kind of magic kinect you have but the one I have only sees items in front of it, and even then only in a cone in front of it, go too far to the left or right and it loses you.
Hololens maps the room, yes. It does not create a "Holodeck" implementation of the room. Have you seen 3D mapping software? It doesn't image everything in 3D, it creates map data, giving coordinates to wall points, floor points, points on the couch, etc. Basically a 3D wireframe representation. It uses enough points to be able to know where all the "surfaces" are, but does not know what the actual surfaces look like. A large mirror on the wall will look just like a photo frame on the wall or an LED TV on the wall, as far as the device is concerned. It's not doing object recognition, at least not yet. It may can do certain types of object recognition from their shapes, but it is only concerned about knowing size, shape, and location of objects and surfaces in order to accurately "overlay" images.
how about when you are on holiday and instead of sending a few camera stills home, you Skype home while looking over Niagara Fall for the first time, or during an early morning hot air balloon ride? It may not be super-flash for the Skype calls you make now but it will open the door to infinite new possibilities.Exactly how do you Skype with others when they cannot see your face. The demo is misguiding at this point. Hololens sees what you see. You cannot see your own face unless standing in front of a mirror. Skype with a door seems funny, isn't it?
how about when you are on holiday and instead of sending a few camera stills home, you Skype home while looking over Niagara Fall for the first time, or during an early morning hot air balloon ride? It may not be super-flash for the Skype calls you make now but it will open the door to infinite new possibilities.
In fact, for me, it might actually make me want to make Skype video calls. As it stands, I hate doing it. I don't want the people I'm talking to seeing me roll my eyes or sticking my fingers down my throat as they drone on aimlessly. I much prefer voice calls, thanks.