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Microsoft's HoloLens

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Thu, 2015-01-22 12:15

Zarpaulus

Microsoft's HoloLens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA Looks like an early version of an Ecto. Presumably they'll be able to miniaturize it a bit so it won't be so clunky. For the immediate future though I'm only seeing it being worn for short periods by gamers, graphic designers, and actually it would help a lot in my LiDAR data processing job.

Thu, 2015-01-22 13:16

Killebrew

If that is pulled off how it

If that is pulled off how it appears to work, then yeah that thing is pretty amazing. It seems like it might be intended only for a home/work use though.

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Thu, 2015-01-22 15:55

Bursting Eagern... Bursting Eagerness Soul's picture

One way that I could see it

One way that I could see it being less bulky would be to take all the computing and power stuff and stick it in something you could clip to your belt.

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Thu, 2015-01-22 20:12

Zarpaulus

That could work. But it

That could work. But it might add a bit of lag.

Fri, 2015-01-23 02:37

Bursting Eagern... Bursting Eagerness Soul's picture

Zarpaulus wrote:That could

Zarpaulus wrote:
That could work. But it might add a bit of lag.

Not any significant amount. All you're doing is extending the wires already present by a few feet. It would be comparable to the lag between a wired mouse/keyboard and a computer.

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Fri, 2015-01-23 07:59

ThatWhichNeverWas ThatWhichNeverWas's picture

It's less of a help than you'd think.

A lot of the bulkiness in current designs comes from the size of the viewing systems, and the geometries needed for a decent FOV. Slightly more slimline designs are the Atheer and Meta Pro, but even they're on the clunky side.

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Mon, 2015-01-26 04:10

Chrontius

I am heartened they have room

Let me get my tangent out of the way first: I am heartened they have room in there for an 18650 in back, in some kind of clip-on unit. 3400 mAh, 3.7v nominal, and several more hours of runtime with the current cutting edge. Sometimes, grabbing the best off-the-shelf battery available is able to provide both the correct and easiest solution, and when engineers don't fight that particular NIH-syndrome we should thank them. When I first saw the HoloLens, I immediately thought of, over the course of about three seconds:

Yesterday Slashdot had an article about police across America buying wall-penetrating RADAR. Can I have a Halo-style motion sensor in my bottom-left corner?
Seek Thermal has very-nearly-VGA thermal sensors the size of pencil erasers. Can I have those on Mjolnir Mk.6 style cheek-mounts?
Solid-state photomultipliers are a thing. Can I have those too?
Green channel for photomultiplier, red for IR, and blue for RADAR.
I've just recapitulated the "specs" from Eclipse phase.

That was literally the first five seconds of my thought process upon seeing those. :D Edit: There's also the Avegant Glyph, in terms of slim virtual-reality headsets, and that one's using a virtual retinal display, which is awesome. Edit 2: I suppose a Kinect-style LIDAR would nicely compliment the blue channel with a point cloud, letting you see those things that absorb microwaves and T-rays but aren't emitting thermal radiation distinct from room temperature.