Microsoft’s New Interface: FREAKING HOLOGRAMS
During Microsoft’s Windows 10 event today, the company introduced two new devices and a whole new application development model for the Windows platform: holographic computing.
Windows Holographic is a three-dimensional, environmentally aware application environment that will be supported in various ways on all Windows 10 devices. Holographic content will be put most spectacularly on display by HoloLens, a wearable computer that uses tricks of light to project three-dimensional virtual objects on top of the environment around the user, allowing them to interact with the “holograms” using voice and gesture commands.They’re not really holograms, in the purely technical sense—there are no lasers involved, and the display is not using diffraction or interference to create a holographic projection. Instead, they use a high definition stereographic display and fool the eye into seeing things laid atop the real world, placed in the same context as real-world objects as if they were projected holograms.