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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Microsoft's HoloLens with Holographic Technology

        Microsoft's HoloLens with Holographic Technology

On the TED stage in Vancouver, Canada, Alex Kipman demoed his newest baby: the Microsoft HoloLens. And he did it with a visual bang. Kipman teleported a hologram of a  NASA scientist onto the stage. Here's a look at the new technology and how it could transform your world. 

A new reality

Kipman onstage during his TED talk in Vancouver, Canada, wearing a HoloLens headset.
Kipman onstage during his TED talk in Vancouver, Canada, wearing a HoloLens headset.

The headset

 The HoloLens headset.
The HoloLens headset, which is equipped with loads of sensors, a fish-eye-lens camera and a holographic processing unit.

Mixed reality

HoloLens Demo
Kipman demonstrates how the HoloLens lets you overlay holograms onto the real word, which the headset maps out with spatial mapping technology at five frames per second, in real-time. With hand gestures the wearer can move and modify the holograms.

Imaginary realm
HoloLens Color Demo
And those holograms can be unlike real life, as Kipman demonstrates with the fairy (or elf) onstage with him. 



Trippy world
HoloLens Magic Forest
With HoloLens the wearer can transform their room (or a TED talk stage) into a glowing make-believe forest that the person can walk through and explore.

Holographic teleportation

HoloLens Teleportation Demo
NASA scientist Jeff Norris was teleported, or at least a hologram of him was, onto the stage with Kipman. "I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street while I'm standing on the stage with your while I'm standing on mars a hundred million miles away."

He added, "This is a precise holographic replica of Mars built from data captured by the Curiosity Mars rover".


HoloLens for science

HoloLens Scientist Teleportation
NASA is using HoloLens to allow astronauts to explore other planets like Mars with their feet planted firmly on Earth. 

HoloLens in space

NASA and Microsoft engineers test Project Sidekick on NASA’s Weightless Wonder C9 jet.
NASA and Microsoft engineers test Project Sidekick on NASA’s Weightless Wonder C9 jet. Project Sidekick will use Microsoft HoloLens to provide virtual aid to 

astronauts working on the International Space Station.

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