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04-01-2016, 08:15 PM
Microsoft HoloLens: Does anyone k**w where it’s going?
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SAN FRANCISCO — HoloLens (http://mashable.com/category/hololens/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Microsoft’s self-contained holographic computer, arrives in developers' hands around the world today, but when they open those exquisitely designed black boxes (http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/hololens-unboxing/), the devices they receive will largely be a mystery to them — both how they work and, more importantly, what they're good for.
At its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft did its best to dispel the mystery, while at the same time enhancing the HoloLens mystique.
SEE ALSO: HoloLens IRL: What it's like in Microsoft's version of augmented reality (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/microsoft-hololens-development-edition-review/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
HoloLens certainly played a starring role this week at Build, but unlike the code demonstrations and sessions on bots (Microsoft is obsessed with bots (http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/microsoft-tay-ai-bots/)), its*Azure (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/microsoft-azure-iot-developer-tools/)*cloud platform and machine intelligence, HoloLens is treated like a rare beast, behind lock and key and only on display in something called the Holographic Academy and Destination Mars, a reservation-only HoloLens Experience space housed in a giant, self-contained black box. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/01/wtf-is-hololens/)
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SAN FRANCISCO — HoloLens (http://mashable.com/category/hololens/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Microsoft’s self-contained holographic computer, arrives in developers' hands around the world today, but when they open those exquisitely designed black boxes (http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/hololens-unboxing/), the devices they receive will largely be a mystery to them — both how they work and, more importantly, what they're good for.
At its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft did its best to dispel the mystery, while at the same time enhancing the HoloLens mystique.
SEE ALSO: HoloLens IRL: What it's like in Microsoft's version of augmented reality (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/microsoft-hololens-development-edition-review/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
HoloLens certainly played a starring role this week at Build, but unlike the code demonstrations and sessions on bots (Microsoft is obsessed with bots (http://mashable.com/2016/03/30/microsoft-tay-ai-bots/)), its*Azure (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/microsoft-azure-iot-developer-tools/)*cloud platform and machine intelligence, HoloLens is treated like a rare beast, behind lock and key and only on display in something called the Holographic Academy and Destination Mars, a reservation-only HoloLens Experience space housed in a giant, self-contained black box. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/01/wtf-is-hololens/)
More about ******* Holographic (http://mashable.com/category/*******-holographic/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Augmented Reality (http://mashable.com/category/augmented-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Microsoft (http://mashable.com/category/microsoft/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Hololens (http://mashable.com/category/hololens/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Yg6XvPdUx4E