What is HoloLens

HoloLens allows users to experience 3D holographic images as though they are a part of their environment. This level of immersion enables new forms of wearable computing, with capabilities spatial mapping with the built-in depth camera, voice and gesture recognition, and collaboration over the network. You can even stream Netflix on a wall or build a Minecraft castle on your dining table, as high-resolution holograms.

Features of HoloLens

Your world as a canvas

Microsoft HoloLens perceptively maps your room and mixes holograms with the environment around you. As per your convenience, you can pin holograms to locations wherever you want to.

Natural way of interaction

You can interact with the system to create and shape holograms with gestures. Communicate with apps using your voice and navigate with a glance.

Create what you imagine

Create your own holograms and share them with others. Use holograms to visualize how something will look in the physical world

Nothing to get in your way

No wires, No Screens, No Buttons, just transparent lenses interacting freely with holograms without losing sight of your world.

Interactions with your Mixed Reality Space

·       Gaze – Gaze commands, such as head-tracking, allows the user to bring application focus to whatever the user is perceiving

·       Gesture – An “air-tap” gesture, like clicking a mouse, is usually used to select a button, or drag, drop and transform your Hologram.

·       Voice – Full access to the Windows 10 speech engine, with speech recognition added to the HoloLens applications.

HoloLens V1.

Different from Virtual reality?

Yes. While VR wants to immerse us in an entirely new world, Mixed reality helps us interact with real world in ways. The key characteristic of MR is that the synthetic content and the real-world content can react to each other in real time. While in VR, immersive multimedia replicates an environment that simulates a physical presence in places in the real or imagined world.