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This has nothing to do with VR. I know very well hololens, and exactly for this reason I said that would be very strange for Microsoft to invest in VR given all
by tigershark 9y ago
This has nothing to do with VR.
I know very well hololens, and exactly for this reason I said that would be very strange for Microsoft to invest in VR given all the huge time and money investment in AR.
Hololens is AR not VR.
- fsloth 9y ago"I said that would be very strange for Microsoft to invest in VR..." The fact remains they are selling very VR capable helmets with display and optics which block the view completely. Maybe Microsoft is displaying a different page for you from the page I linked? I tried the new Asus devkit headset only last week. It's not the hololens. It's sold on the same page, though.
- tigershark 9y agoThey are selling it for AR as the "mixed reality" in the name of the product explains. The difference with the hololens is that it is getting the world images from a front camera rather than using a transparent display. Ergo, as I was pointing out from the beginning, MS is investing massively only on AR, could not care less for VR.
- fsloth 9y agoPhew, so we are discussing the same thing, good. The cameras enable room scale head tracking. Projecting the camera image as a backdrop is optional. If I'm not using the camera image as a backdrop I think the experience would be characterized as VR. I don't really understand why you insist on this AR/VR dichotomy - a good AR headset is a pretty good VR headset as a basic requirement.
- tigershark 9y agoAR can obviously do VR but it is much more. And the opposite of course is not true. That said I don't think that anyone would choose to do VR when they can have mixed reality.