Microsoft HoloLens Turns Your Environment Into An Interactive Space

Microsoft HoloLens brings high-def­i­n­i­tion holo­grams into con­sumers’ lives, inte­grat­ing with our phys­i­cal places, spaces, and things.

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Microsoft has giv­en con­sumers a look into the future of its holo­graph­ic tech­nol­o­gy. And it’s impres­sive. Microsoft­’s HoloLens will soon bring high-def­i­n­i­tion holo­grams into con­sumers’ lives. What is this holo­graph­ic head­set, and why is every­one talk­ing about it?


A new oper­at­ing sys­tem was not the only excit­ing thing to be unveiled at Microsoft­’s Win­dows 10 keynote. In a bold, and large­ly unan­tic­i­pat­ed announce­ment, Microsoft announced that Win­dows 10, along with the new Spar­tan brows­er (IE replace­ment designed from the ground up) would be released with full sup­port for ‘HoloLens’.

HoloLens makes the holo­graph­ic tech­nol­o­gy (which will be named Win­dows Holo­graph­ic) that we’ve all seen in sci­ence-fic­tion movies become a real­i­ty. Accord­ing to Microsoft the tech­nol­o­gy will “adapt to the nat­ur­al ways we com­mu­ni­cate, learn, and cre­ate. [Allow­ing our] dig­i­tal lives [to] seam­less­ly con­nect with real life.”

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As revealed in a live keynote demon­stra­tion, Microsoft HoloLens brings high-def­i­n­i­tion holo­grams into con­sumers’ lives where they inte­grate with our phys­i­cal places, spaces, and things. HoloLens con­tains mul­ti­ple sen­sors, spa­tial sound, and mul­ti­ple chips, as well as a brand new Microsoft-craft­ed proces­sor called a Holo­graph­ic Pro­cess­ing Unit.

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This is the head­set that makes it all pos­si­ble.

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And incred­i­bly, Win­dows Holo­graph­ic isn’t mere­ly a con­cept or an idea, it’s a real and ful­ly sup­port­ed fea­ture of Microsoft­’s new oper­at­ing sys­tem.

Holo­graph­ic com­put­ing enabled by Win­dows 10 is here,” said Alex Kip­man, Tech­ni­cal Fel­low at Microsoft. “Every Win­dows 10 build fea­tures Holo­graph­ic appli­ca­tion pro­gram­ming inter­faces (APIs) for mul­ti­ple screen sizes.”

If you need­ed any fur­ther evi­dence of the immer­sive, and game-chang­ing pow­er of holo­graph­ic tech­nol­o­gy, have a read of how one Ven­ture­Beat reporter’s expe­ri­ence of the tech­nol­o­gy made him recon­sid­er his life choic­es.

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(This is prob­a­bly why Microsoft bought Minecraft!)

If the tech­nol­o­gy has as much of an effect on con­sumers’ lives as it promis­es. 2015 could real­ly be Microsoft­’s year.

Pat Hong

Written by Pat Hong

Editor at Linkdex/Inked, Linkdex

Pat covers the SEO industry, digital marketing trends, and anything and everything around Linkdex. He also authors Linkdex's data analysis and reports, analysing the state of search in various industries.

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