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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - The Verge new impressions on HoloLens - great screen, but demos shown so far "basically a lie"

I feel some kind of deja vu.



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DerNebel said:

Lol the people in that comment section are mad.

My bet is that this is going to be in a lot of ways like the Kinect, the demos MS is showing of this right now should basically be more taken as "this is what we want this to be able to do at one point, though it doesn't really do it right now." Even the first iteration of this that's going to be sold will not be nearly as good as these demos are making it out to be, once Hololens 2.0 or 3.0 comes out we might actually be getting something that's getting close to this.


this. 

this kind of tech has a future imo.  i this kind of tech will replace smartphones.  ...but i'm not buying a gen 1 product. 



Aeolus451 said:
HollyGamer said:
well on my first impression was , "OMG this will be a game changer" , but then again i remember " Kinnect " so yeah, i pool back my expectation. and then i still have hopes, but after read this news and review along with other first impression, OK i am done with Hollo lens, not now not even on 10 years, but maybe it need more then 10 years


By then, someone (probably MS) will have no glasses holographic tech.

Maybe if Microsoft has more competitor.  Just look at Nintendo VR, It doesnt have competitor and it ended bad and we have to wait more then 10 years  to come close to what Gunpei Yoko vision.  Current VR  is backed by many competitor (Oculus, Samsung, HTC, Valve, SONY ect). That's really helpfull.



I just hope their focus this E3 will be mostly around Hololens.

also new slogan: Microsoft, we put the LOL in holographics



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

Livewire said:
will certainly be revolutionary


People were saying the same thing on forums back in 2007/08 when the Kinect was being showcased(at the time it was codenamed "Project Natal". Some people honestly believed it was going to be a game changer and was going to put the 360 in front. Even popular media outlets were in on the hype:

http://www.techradar.com/au/news/gaming/consoles/why-xbox-project-natal-is-a-game-changer-604314

We all know how the Kinect went. Whilst it sold well, it never did live up to the hype and never changed the standard. Kinect 2.0 has been dropped almost entirely with very little software being developed for it. I see the Hololens as being even more niche as the cost of the unit will be even more than the Xbox1 which makes it incredibly prohibitive for most people.



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Yeah that dat camera is the real hololens, if some day all that fit to a small head device will be aweosome, for now is just a kinect on your head. Why they try to lie? they damage the own creation like kinect. The techologyt is very cool but tell us for onces is not ready yet!



 

 

Didn't we all see this coming?



Nuvendil said:
So a very expensive peripheral being partly directed at gaming (despite obvious practical limitations to its integration) with marketing that is highly misleading about it's capabilities. Now where have we heard this song before?


The most ridiculous part of this thread is people compare this to Kinect like this one, unlike Kinect it doesn't need to cost down because they WON'T sell it with Xbox, they only need to keep improve in next prototype.

And what marketing? we don't even know when will it release.



ABTR said:

Yeah that dat camera is the real hololens,.....

 

Yeah....



Nuvendil said:
So a very expensive peripheral being partly directed at gaming (despite obvious practical limitations to its integration) with marketing that is highly misleading about it's capabilities. Now where have we heard this song before?


^ this.

And the most important part:  " ....partly directed at gaming (despite obvious practical limitations to its integration)".

 

AR is going to suck for gameing, plane and simple, when compaired to VR.

And VR is going to be easy to develop for (compaired to AR) and cheaper 249-299$ price tag for a VR headset.

 

I dont see how this product ever really takes off and takes the world by storm.

Even Facebook, leader of social media choose to buy a VR company

 (instead of going for AR which is uniquely suited for social media).