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Imaginedvl on 06 December 2016
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SvennoJ said:
Imaginedvl said:
This is obvious... Hard to disagree with that :)
Now, when this will be available is the question.

I have the Oculus Rift and the HoloLens and I have to say while I really like VR and enjoy the complete immersion, the potential of a HoloLens and future update with larger viewing area that can actually act as a VR too is definitely the future. And those holograms in the real world; they are just fantastic and look already so real with the current version, it is just amazing :)

Same goes for the untethered... The wires are just a pain sometime with the Rift...

Awesome, you have hololens.

I'm wondering can it make the holograms really solid like in VR, or is there always some translucency going on? I guess it depends on the room lighting?
Is it possible to effectively darken areas (like darkening sunglasses) or is it only additive, overpowering background light?
Can it simply act as VR if you put a blindfold over it? :)

Style will eventually be normal glasses, long way off. Then vr contacts!
Or perhaps retinal projectors.

It depends on 2 things actually :) I really played a lot and tried different things with it.

- Room lightning definitely but it is really not that much a problem (of course if you are outside in a very sunny day it may but it will still work)
- The most impacting thing is the actual hologram. Holograms are basically ray of lights with the hololens being projected into the 2 small screens; so if the holograms is too dark (using darker textures) then less light are projected and if you are really projecting something black, Hololens is basically not projecting anything at all :)

I would say that for very bright holograms, it can actually appears almost solid and I can definitly hide the "real" objects behind it (I 'm trying it at the same time than typing this :) Actually, I can see the object behind if I really focus but the hologram is really almost appearing solid). But if I go darker (close to blak) then it will virtualy be transparent.

Overall this is really not an issue tho because you just design your application in consequence and so far I did not really have any problem with that.