[outside]: *Knock knock*.
[Me]: Uhh... who's there?
[outside]: The future.
[Me]: Oh... ummm the future... who?
[outside]: You know those sci-fi hologram things that you thought were so far into the future that you'd never ever see it and it would always be a thing in a movie?
[Me]: Yeah................ wait..... thats... THATS-
[outside]: Yeah. That's me.
[Me]: WOOHOOO! COME IN MY SON. COME IN.
Microsoft's Hololens looks amazing... however I couldn't help but notice a few things about these new holograms that MS may have been cleverly "disguising". Firstly, I'm not sure if the new processor can discern or account for distance and occlusion. In other words, if you have a hologram of a picture on a wall and you raise your hand to click, one would think that your hand would be IN FRONT OF the hologram. I don't think it does that as the camera angles from everything in the demos to the live demo of Holo Studio were cleverly avoiding the occlusion issue. Maybe it's not such a big deal. Obviously it's nice to not wave this potential downer in front of people's faces (you see what I did there) to kill the hype.
I'm still super excited and down the line the whole prospect of giving the hardware and software enough spatial information in real time for it to calculate occlusion is something that isn't out of the range of possibility.
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