| KingdomHeartsFan said: It looks promising in other things besides gaming, but looking strictly at gaming I havn't seen anything promising, even where the guy uses his imagination to come up with ideas they sound really bad. It might be good for simple free games like Fruit Ninja. |
There are a couple of ideas that I've communicated to Microsoft that works better with AR than with VR, though one would work with VR too. The other, I'm not sure you could do with VR.
The benefit of AR is that you're able to see an unaltered view around you. VR glasses with a forward facing camera would offer a similar function but you're constantly using battery power to operate the display and you can't focus on what the camera isn't focused on. With AR glasses, you can focus on anything you want, including what is being displayed.
Yes, some of those ideas may be simple, but they could also be very creative and fun experiences. But again those are experiences that VR and AR devices can share, but I think the benefit of AR is that you can have AR devices on all the time, on your head, and only when you're actually using the lenses to display information or content will you be draining the battery. They don't shut you out of the rest of the world. The benefit of this is that you could happen upon an experience walking down the street.
And just because they're AR glasses doesn't mean that they can't offer a similar experience to VR glasses. The ideal situation is that you would use them in conjection with a regular display (TV/Monitor), but it's clear from what Microsoft is talking about that HoloLens would be capable of playing games streamed from a Windows 10 PC.
We'll see this fall, though, I guess.
